This book is a practical introduction to creating more responsive web pages using Ajax with PHP and MySQL on the server side. Every chapter is a solution to a problem (such as creating a chat application or auto-complete input fields) and goes through defining the problem, …

Unlike most programming books that attempt to be a reference, the Nutshell series from O’Reilly takes a completely different approach to provide just the information you need to solve a particular problem. The MySQL in a Nutshell book is just that, also billed as a desktop …

Taking a look at the PHP related books on the market; you will notice that most of them are aimed at beginners.Instead of collecting and compiling information out of the various online resources into book, Jay Greenspan and Brad Bulger follow a different approach. Their book …

In PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, authors Allan Kent and David Powers talk not only about Dreamweaver MX 2004 (DMX), but also discuss many of the common aspects of working in the PHP environment, including MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Apache, CSS and XHTML, best practices, …

This book intends to simplify programming tasks through the use of add-on modules and packages. The intended audience is intermediate-to-advanced, although I believe it is also of great use to the uninitiated. The Introduction provides a solid introduction to the use of PEAR and the command …

In this book author David Wall shows us how to create a PHP application based specifically on a multi-tier architecture and design. The question is: does it live up to the claims?OVERVIEWAt this point in PHP’s dynamic evolution there is a new buzzword doing the rounds: …

Why would anyone want to buy a book that is essentially available for free over the Internet? This is the question I found myself coming back to as I looked through the book, but firstly, let's look at the book's contents. I looked hard, and there …

It certainly took its time, but now it's out: a PHP book from the famous “Programming” series by O'Reilly. O'Reilly has a tradition of letting only creators or core developers of a language write books for this series. With “Programming PHP” Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of …