Message from Dean - May 8th 2007

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780596101398
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596101392
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 468
Publication Date: December 12, 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility and convenience. When it comes to creating web sites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used on more than 19 million web sites, surpassing Microsoft's ASP .NET technology in popularity. Not surprisingly, this surge in usage has resulted in a number of PHP books hitting the market. Only one, though, takes the language beyond traditional Web programming and into mapping, graphing, multimedia, and beyond: "PHP Hacks,"

In "PHP Hacks," author Jack Herrington wrings out his 20 years of code generation experience to deliver hands-on tools ranging from basic PHP and PEAR installation and scripting to advanced multimedia and database optimizing tricks.

On the practical side of things, "PHP Hacks" helps you develop more robust PHP applications by explaining how to improve your database design, automate application testing, and employ design patterns in your PHP scripts and classes. In the category of "cool," Herrington explains how to upgrade your Web interface through the creation of tabs, stickies, popups, and calendars. He even examines how to leverage maps and graphics in PHP. There's also a bounty of image and application hacks, including those that show you how to:

Integrate web sites with Google maps and satellite imaging

Dynamically display iPhoto libraries online

Add IRC, SMS, and Instant Messaging capabilities to your Web applications

Drop the latest Wikipedia dictionary onto your Sony PSP

Render graphics and user interfaces with SVG, DHTML, and Ajax

Whether you're a newcomer or an expert, you'll find great value in "PHPHacks," the only PHP guide that offers something useful and fun for everyone.






Rating: - doesn't keep what it promises
when I saw the title I was sure it is exactly what I needed, some special tips and tricks, something that you can't find easily on the internet. But it was nothing more.

The good thing is now I have some good ideas in a book and don't have to search every time online.

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Rating: - PHP Hacks
I haven't finished this book yet, but I think it will go really well with helping me to get a better grasp of PHP. I already knew a little bit before I bought this book and another book here. It's not a book for learning PHP from scratch, its for showing you how to do things with PHP that are very useful and innovative. I also purchased PHP and MySQL FOR Dummies by Larry Ullman, so this should help me in starting my business. :)

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Rating: - A Must Have!
Along with "PHP in a Nutshell" by Paul Hudson, "Ajax Hacks" by Bruce W. Perry, and "Visual Quickpro Guide PHP 6 and MySQL 5" by Larry Ullman, PHP Hacks is a phenomenal resource for ideas for using PHP.
One of the many things I like to use with PHP is graphics. (I prefer to Use iMagick over GD since it is more object oriented). You can create dynamic images using PHP. It is also my strong belief that given future versions of PHP, sound, animation, and interactivity (like in Adobe Flash) could be developed using a PHP script. (But don't tell Adobe that. It would be like the oil industry finding out people can run cars on water or compressed air.)
PHP Hacks is a remarkable resource to jump start your understanding of PHP.

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Rating: - Nice broad book
Broad book, covers a little html, a little CSS, a little javascript - RSS, XML, MySQL etc. A lot of functional and usefull PHP hacks.

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Rating: - Solid, Quality Reference For Many Possible Uses
It's very packed full of php solutions that, instead of having you thinking: "I might need this particularly obscure thing later, but then again probably not", like a lot of other books, you'll very likely consider getting a lot of use out of at least 75% of the "hack" recipes eventually.

They're not really hacks by the way, in the negative sense of the word. (Maybe the Recipes book came out first and "Hacks" was the next best word for the title, who knows). But these hack/tips are based on fundamental technologies such as reading/writing XML, preventing double submission on ecommerce sites, making use of design patterns in PHP, great UI tips ( I immediately put one of them to use, which had a url to a popular dhtml library I didn't even know of).

A major portion of the hacks involve excellent user interface advice such as dhtml menus, generating images, etc..

Excellent real-world MySQL tips that include a basic login system, or a PHP recipe that you ... Read More

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