Anonymous
Posted Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2008
Are you a professional or novice to PHP and PostgreSQL 8? If you are, then this book is definitely for you. Authors W. Jason Gilmore and Robert H. Treat, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that offers users an impressive platform for building high-powered Web applications. Gilmore and Treat, begin by acquainting you with the basics of PHP offering insight into its roots, popularity, and users. Then, the authors show you how to install and configure PHP, as well as, the Apache Web server. Next, they cover the various aspects from the basics of the PHP language and class libraries to topics like authentication, security, session handlers and e-mail functionality. The authors also focus on PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR). They continue by addressing PostgreSQL, including tables and data types, views, functions, indexes and triggers. Then, the authors present the more pertinent PHP functionality to access PostgreSQL. Next, they show you how to install and configure your local test bed. The authors continue by describing the server strain that PG can handle. Then, they show you how to use Smarty and PearDB. Next, the authors also cover the integration between PostgreSQL and PHP the interface with PostgreSQL from PHP and how to write reusable queries. Finally, the authors go further by covering the installation and configuration of PostgreSQL. This most excellent book is not for beginners. Nevertheless, you will find plenty of tips and notes focusing shortcuts to complete both new and familiar tasks.
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Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 delves into some of the most popular open-source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL 8 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. You’ll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. This is an ideal read if you are a web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice who wants to create applications with PHP 5 and PostgreSQL 8.
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W. Jason Gilmore is a web developer and business consultant with more than 15 years of experience helping companies large and small build amazing software solutions. He has been teaching developers from around the world about web development for over a decade, having written six books, including the bestselling Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition and Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework, Second Edition .
Over the years Jason has been published more than 300 times within popular publications such as Developer.com, PHPBuilder.com, JSMag, and Linux Magazine, and instructed hundreds of students in the United States and Europe. He s recently led the successful development and deployment of a 10,000+ product e-commerce project, and is currently working on a variety of new e-commerce initiatives. Jason is cofounder of the wildly popular CodeMash Conference, the largest multi-day developer event in the Midwest.
Robert H. Treat is a longtime open source user, developer, and advocate. He is helping to maintain the postgresql.org websites, working on phpPgAdmin, and contributing to the PostgreSQL core. He has contributed several articles to the PostgreSQL "techdocs" site, was a two-time presenter at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, worked as the PHP Foundry administrator on SourceForge.net, and has been recognized as a "Major Developer" for his work within the PostgreSQL community.
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