This book teaches how to develop dynamic Web sites with PHP and MySQL, covering
the knowledge that most developers might require. In keeping with the format of the
Visual QuickPro series, the information is discussed using a step-by-step approach
with corresponding images. The focus has been kept on real-world, practical examples,
avoiding “here’s something you could do but never would” scenarios. As a practicing Web
developer myself, I wrote about the information that I use and avoided those topics
immaterial to the task at hand. Asa practicing writer, I made certain to include topics
and techniques that I know readers are asking about.
The structure of the book is linear, and the intention is that you’ll read it in order.

It begins with three chapters covering the fun damentals of PHP (by the second chapter,
you will have already developed your first dynamic Web page). After that, there are
three chapters on SQL (Structured Query Language, which is used to interact with all
databases) and MySQL. They teach the basics of SQL, database design, and the MySQL
application in particular. Then there’s one chapter on debugging and error manage-
ment, information everyone needs. This is followed by a chapter introducing how to
use PHP and MySQL together, a remarkably easy thing to do.
The following five chapters teach more application techniquesto round out your
knowledge. Security, in particular, is repeatedly addressed in those pages. Chapter 14,
“Making Universal Sites,” is entirely new to this edition of the book, showing you how

to broaden the reach of your sites. Finally, I’ve included three example chapters, in

which the heart of different Web applications are developed, with instructions.

Is this book for you?
This book was written for a wide range of people within the beginner-to-intermediate
range. The book makes use of XHTML for future compatibility, so solid experience
with XHTML, or its forebear HTML, is a must. Although this book covers many
things, it does not formally teach HTML or Web page design. SomeCSS is sprinkled
about these pages but also not taught. Second, this book expects that you have one
of the following:
- The drive and ability to learn without much hand holding, or…
- Familiarity with another programming language (even solid JavaScript skills About This

Book would qualify), or…
- Acursory knowledge of PHP Make no mistake: Thisbook covers PHP and MySQL from Ato Z,

teaching everything you’ll need to know to develop real-world Web sites, but

particularly the early chapters cover PHP at a quick pace. For this reason I
recommend either someprogramming experience or a curious and independent spirit
when it comes to learning new things. If you find that the material goes too quickly,

you should probably start off withthe latest edition of my book PHP for the World Wide
Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, which goes at a more tempered pace.
No database experienceis required, since SQL and MySQL are discussed starting at a
more basic level.

Git - система контроля версий, разработанная Линусом Торвальдсом для поддержки кода ядра Linux. Git появился в мире открытого ПО в 2005 году, и используется для разработки в небольших конторах и в ряде таких гигантов, как Google, Red Hat, и IBM, и, многие другие проекты с открытым исходным кодом.

• Книга от экспертов по Git превратит вас в эксперта Git
• Представляет мир распределенной системы контроля версий
• Показано, как построить рабочий процесс используя Git

После прочтения книги

• Использование Git программистами или руководителем проекта.
• Сможете свободно пользоваться всеми функциями Git.
• Использовать распределенные особенности Git в полной мере.
• Приобретает возможность вставки Git в развитии процесса.
• Миграция проектов из других (SCM) СКВ в Git.
• Узнаете, как расширить Git.

Описывается пятая версия популярной бесплатной СУБД MySQL. В начале книги происходит знакомство читателя с MySQL и простейшими SQL-запросами, такими как создание баз данных и таблиц, их заполнение, извлечение и удаление записей. Далее рассматриваются сложные вопросы SQL-программирования: встроенные функции, полнотекстовый поиск, транзакции, временные таблицы. В заключительной части разбираются различные нововведения, появившиеся только в MySQL 5: вложенные запросы, хранимые процедуры и функции, представления, триггеры, курсоры, информационные схемы и т. п.

Proven enterprise development tools and best practices for designing, coding, testing, and deploying PHP applications

    * Best practices for designing, coding, testing, and deploying PHP applications - all the information in one book
    * Learn to write unit tests and practice test-driven development from an expert
    * Set up a professional development environment with integrated debugging capabilities
    * Develop your own coding standard and enforce it automatically
    * Document your code for easy maintainability for yourself and others

In Detail
Even if you find writing PHP code easy, writing code that is efficient and easy to maintain and reuse is not so straightforward. Self-taught PHP developers and programmers transitioning from other languages often lack the knowledge to work with PHP on an enterprise level. They need to take their PHP development skills to that level by learning the skills and tools necessary to write maintainable and efficient code.

How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions, and users. You'll learn how to develop large web applications with the extreme precision required for other types of software.

    * Avoid common coding and maintenance headaches as small websites add more pages, more code, and more programmers
    * Get comprehensive solutions for refining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ajax for large-scale web applications
    * Make changes in one place that ripple through all affected page elements
    * Embrace the virtues of modularity, encapsulation, abstraction, and loosely coupled components
    * Use tried-and-true techniques for managing data exchange, including working with forms and cookies
    * Learn often-overlooked best practices in code management and software engineering
    * Prepare your code to make performance enhancements and testing easier

A generation has watched the internet work its way into every part of society as talented designers and developers have explored new user interfaces and as the most robust design patterns have emerged through the refining fire of hundreds of millions of users. Pawan Vora has done a wonderful service in capturing these best practices in Web Application Design Patterns. This book will be valuable to people ranging from those putting together their first website to those shaping corporate web experiences, and from practitioners to researchers benchmarking existing patterns as new interface paradigms are created. -- Arnie Lund, User Experience Director, Microsoft

Web Application Design Patterns is a must read if you are in the business of designing web applications, or simply want to understand the elements of a well-designed web application.

Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming -- and productivity -- to the max. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails' rich set of tools and the MVC framework.

By the time you're finished, you'll have learned more than just another web framework. You'll master database interactions, integration with Ajax and XML, rich content, and even dynamic graphing of your data -- all in a fraction of the time it takes to build the same apps with Java, PHP, ASP.NET, or Perl. You'll even get comfortable and familiar with Ruby, the language that underpins Rails. But you'll do it in the context of web programming, and not through boring exercises such as "Hello, World!"

Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Rails uses a visually rich format designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.

How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive. You'll learn how to write code that's readable, expressive, and much more. Ruby Best Practices will help you:

Understand the secret powers unlocked by Ruby's code blocks Learn how to bend Ruby code without breaking it, such as mixing in modules on the fly Discover the ins and outs of testing and debugging, and how to design for testability Learn to write faster code by keeping things simple Develop strategies for text processing and file management, including regular expressions Understand how and why things can go wrong Reduce cultural barriers by leveraging Ruby's multilingual capabilities

This book also offers you comprehensive chapters on driving code through tests, designing APIs, and project maintenance. Learn how to make the most of this rich, beautiful language with Ruby Best Practices.

This is by far the best ‘know all, end all’ reference, bar none. My hat goes off to Peter Wainwright and Apress for opening up a whole new world to me." — Eric Wolf (a.k.a. "nawlej"), Codewalkers.com This book aims to teach you everything you need to know to build, install, and configure every aspect of Apache, the world's most popular Web server. Two versions of Apache are now available. Apache 1.3 is still widely used and is continuously updated. Apache 2 offers new and powerful features, such as multi-processsing modules and filters, as well as a revised and expanded build system for compiling Apache from source. This book comprehensively covers both server versions, presenting up-to-date information and examples, and highlighting variations bettween the two releases in context. In addition, this book is organized to provide solutions to common problems. It answers the questions that administrators like you typically ask, without requiring that you know the name of a specific Apache module or directive beforehand. This book also demonstrates multiple solutions to a problem, and contrasts the benefits and drawbacks of each approach. After reading Pro Apache, you'll know not only how to get the results you want, but also why a solution works the way it does. Finally, this book examines how to accomplish more advanced configurations, where individual features must cooperate with each other intelligently. Now in its third edition, the expertise found in Pro Apache makes it the definitive guide to harnessing the power of Apache safely and securely.

Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.

Souders' previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by revealing that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side. In Even Faster Web Sites, Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site's performance in three critical categories:

• JavaScript--Get advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more.
• Network--Learn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunked encoding to render pages faster.
  
• Browser--Discover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques.

Speed is essential for today's rich media web sites and Web 2.0 applications. With this book, you'll learn how to shave precious seconds off your sites' load times and make them respond even faster.

This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.

Do you really understand your online presence? Are you confident that visitors can use your website? Do you know their motivations? How do online communities perceive your company? To innovate and adapt your business quickly, you must know the answers to these questions. Complete Web Monitoring demonstrates how to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis -- whether you're running an e-commerce site, a community, a media property, or a Software-as-a-Service company. This book's concrete examples, clear explanations, and practical recommendations make it essential for anyone who runs a website. With this book you will:

Discover how visitors use and interact with your site through web analytics, segmentation, conversions, and user interaction analysis Find out your market's motivations with voice-of-the-customer research Measure the health and availability of your website with synthetic testing and real-user monitoring Track communities related to your online presence, including social networks, forums, blogs, microblogs, wikis, and social news aggregators Understand how to assemble this data into clear reports tailored to your organization and audience

You can't fix what you don't measure. Complete Web Monitoring shows you how to transform missed opportunities, frustrated users, and spiraling costs into online success. "This is a very comprehensive view of just about everything one needs to know about how websites work and what one needs to know about them. I'd like to make this book required reading for every employee at Gomez." -- Imad Mouline, CTO of Gomez

Rockford Lhotka started writing his Business Objects books in 1996, and over the years, hes become one of the worlds foremost authorities on building distributed object-oriented systems. His industry-standard VB .NET Business Objects book not only addresses changes in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, but also reflects substantial enhancements and improvements to the CSLA .NET Framework and how it can be used to create enterprise-level .NET applications.

Expert C# Business Objects is for developers who want to see Lhotkas ideas applied in the C# idiom. The book takes you from an opening discussion of logical architectures to detailed n-tier deployment options using the CSLA .NET Framework.

The depth of Rockfords thinking now influences developers across language boundaries. With this book, you can learn directly from the expert whose framework has become universally accepted and respected.