Pro PHP Programming

Description

If you are a web programmer, you need to know modern PHP. This book presents with many new areas in which PHP plays a large role. If you want to write a mobile application using geo-location data, Pro PHP Programming will show you how. Additionally, if you need to make sure that you can write a multilingual indexing application using Sphinx, this book will help you avoid the pitfalls. Of course, Pro PHP Programming gives a thorough survey of PHP post-5.3. You'll begin by working through an informative survey and clear guide to object-oriented PHP. Then, you'll be set for the core of the book on modern PHP applications. Now, you'll be able to start with the chapter on PHP for mobile programming and move on to sampling social media applications. You'll also be guided through new PHP programming language features like closures and namespaces. Pro PHP Programming deals with filtering data from users and databases next, so you'll be well prepared for relational and NoSQL databases. Of course, you can also learn about data retrieval from other sources, like OCR libraries or websites. Then the question of how to format and present data arises, and in Pro PHP Programming, you'll find solutions via JSON, AJAX and XML. Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Object Orientation....Pages 1-19 Exceptions and References....Pages 21-30 Mobile PHP....Pages 31-55 Social Media....Pages 57-91 Cutting Edge....Pages 93-109 Form Design and Management....Pages 111-126 Database Integration I....Pages 127-160 Database Integration II....Pages 161-187 Database Integration III....Pages 189-211 Libraries....Pages 213-242 Security....Pages 243-261 Agile Development with Zend Studio for Eclipse, Bugzilla, Mylyn, and Subversion....Pages 263-276 Refactoring, Unit Testing, and Continuous Integration....Pages 277-322 XML....Pages 323-345 JSON and Ajax....Pages 347-384 Conclusion....Pages 385-390 Back Matter....Pages 391-418