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For seasoned developers, this could be the book that you wish you'd had when you started out building web database apps and data-driven sites. Keeping a copy around for reference, especially if you frequently jump back and forth between projects in different languages/environments, also might be helpful - for those occasions when you need of a quick refresher in PHP/MySQL dev. Moreover, if you find yourself in the position of having to mentor junior developers (or helping non-coder friends) tasked with building or maintaining PHP/MySQL-based sites or apps, then lending them your copy or recommending that they buy their own could save you quite a bit of time and frustration.

This book is a tutorial, a resource and a reference for PHP programmers who need to process XML data or interface different systems using XML. Non PHP programmers who need to construct a web based frontend for an application using XML can learn how to do it using PHP, since the book also covers the basic foundations of PHP programming. Advanced PHP programmers experienced in XML will obtain a reference as well as a very deep coverage on advanced topics.

The true power of PHP lies in its strength to create dynamic web content. Developers have moved on from using the newbie style of PHP books, to making PHP work for them by using the theoretical offerings to create small to medium websites. This transition has created a definite information void, and through the Professional PHP4 Web Development Solutions book we hope to exactly fill that space - by helping you create a variety of real world, interactive web sites using PHP4 along with HTML, a DBMS system (MySQL), PEAR::DB, and XML or WML wherever applicable.

This book assumes that the reader has read Beginning PHP 4 and he does not have much of a clue about databases (almost Zero Database Quotient). So this book should be able to teach the reader how to build robust database driven PHP web applications. Further, this book is kind of a 'getting-the reader-ready' for PHP5 which will have strong OO and PEAR DB focus. So we teach the Beginning PHP DB developer the best practices to be adopted when getting into active development. After reading the book, developers will be fluent in database systems and how to take advantage of them in PHP applications.

The fusion of Eclipse, the leading open source development environment, and PHP is an exciting prospect for web developers. This book makes sure that you are up and running as quickly as possible, ready to take full advantage of PHPEclipse's tuned PHP development tools, without requiring any prior knowledge of Eclipse. You will begin with installing and configuring PHPEclipse, before moving onto a tour of the Eclipse environment, familiarizing you with its main components. As a plug-in to Eclipse, PHPEclipse is able to harness the platform to provide a rich and powerful development experience.

Mastering Mambo is a professional-level guide to Mambo's most powerful and useful features. You will develop powerful interactive sites that fit perfectly with your unique requirements. * Create attractive custom layouts for Mambo * Build multilingual, internationalised sites * Open an online store for your Mambo site, complete with support for gift coupons, automatic invoicing, and more * Turn your site into a community with discussion forums * Discover more of the available Mambo extensions and how to use them * Optimize your site for performance, search engines, security, and accessibility * Develop your own components, modules and Mambots * Master DOCMAN, the document manager for Mambo, to turn your Mambo site into a dynamic repository of shared documents and files Mastering Mambo is the book for anybody who has developed a Mambo web site, and wants to expand what their site can do and make the most of this powerful content management system.

This book: --Is a step by step introduction to osCommerce --Helps install and configure osCommerce --Helps in building your first ecommerce website --Is a special Beginnner's edition of the complete Professional Title

This book is the guide for all users of powerful application, Typo 3. Written by experts and members of the core development team of TYPO3, this book is all you need to build, customize, and deploy TYPO3 websites. What you will learn from this book? -Install, configure, customize, administrate, and extend TYPO3 -Create, edit, and manage content -Set up users, permissions, and workflows to ensure that all of your users can contribute to the site quickly and easily -Create and manage statistics and logs so that you can see how visitors are using your site, and improve it accordingly -Use standard and create new templates, giving you the power to create a site that looks the way you want it to -Give your site unique abilities by writing TYPO3 extensions

This book gives you the power to use phpBB to set up and run your own online discussion forums with ease, and develop your own Internet community. It takes you through the whole process of setting up your phpBB site, and helps you create, customize and manage your own online community with phpBB. Written by experienced phpBB administrators and enthusiasts, the emphasis is on simple, and practical guidance for you to get the most from phpBB.

�Mastering TypoScript� is a complete guide to understanding and using TypoScript, TYPO3's powerful configuration language. Users can also understand how to present different views of content with different menu entry types. With the help of Mastering TypoScript book users will understand the objects, properties, operators, and data types in TypoScript. Users can also understand how to present different views of content with different menu entry types. The book helps in designing and developing templates along with extension in TYPO3. TypoScript also allows users to generate graphics at run time and display different content dynamically. This book is suitable for TYPO3 developers, administrators, and designers who want to develop fully featured TYPO3 websites using the power of TypoScript.

This book covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from installation and getting started through structuring your collaborative website, advanced formatting, images, multimedia, security, and managing users to backing up, restoring, and migrating your installation and creating new MediWiki templates. This book is for competent computer users who want to run MediaWiki. They should have some knowledge of HTML and have used a wiki before. No PHP knowledge is required for most of the book, although some chapters at the end include some PHP code. More details about the book can be found at: http://www.packtpub.com/M ediawiki/book

This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using TYPO3. If you have never used TYPO3, or even any web content management system before, then you need not look further than this book as it walks you through each step to create your own TYPO3 site. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and on to customization and adding plug-ins, this book will get you a stable and working TYPO3 based website fast. What you will learn from this book? -How to easily set-up your own TYPO3 website, -How to install and configure TYPO3, -Develop a fully functional example site through the book, -Get to grips with TYPO3's front-end and back-end features, -Work with TYPO3's user management features, -Successfully manage and maintain your TYPO3 website, -Work with the TYPO3 extension manager to extend your site, More details can be found at: http://www.packtpub.com/b eginning-typo3/book

This is a cookbook packed with ready-to-use hacks that give solutions for some of the commonest problems users of the Vim editor encounter during their daily use. Each recipe follows a systematic approach with a self-contained description of the task it covers, how to use it, and what you gain by using it. The reader can read any of the hacks in this book without having to read any of the other hacks�where necessary they include cross-references to other relevant hacks. The minimum version of Vim required for each hack is clearly indicated. Anyone who has worked with Vim and wants to get more out of this legendary text editor can use the hacks from this book. It does not cover the basic tasks of using the editor but instead focuses on making life easier for more experienced Vim users.

Packed with expert advice on all aspects of programming with Joomla! Written by James Kennard, this book is an invaluable reference guide that users will turn to again and again as they work with Joomla! This book is ideal for people who have done PHP programming to extend or customize Joomla! If users feel that they have mastered the basics of creating Joomla! extensions, then this book will take them to the next level. Users will also learn about customizing the page output, using JavaScript effects, making use of Web Services from within Joomla! thus ensuring a secure and error-free code This book is written for PHP developers who want to understand how Joomla! works with a view to advanced customization or extension development, and want to learn how to work with the Joomla! framework. Packed with expert advice on all aspects of programming with Joomla!, this book is an invaluable reference guide users will turn to again and again in their Joomla! development tasks.

Written by Brandon Dawson and Tom Canavan, this book is a fast and easy read, taking the reader from the inception of an idea, to a fully working cash-generating website built on Joomla! The emphasis of this book is towards business and online e-commerce; it will give readers a valuable knowledge base on search engines, layout and design, implementing a shopping cart, marketing their website, affiliate marketing and more. Readers will appreciate the concise and straightforward method to set up a cash-generating website. This book is suitable for business people with a medium level of technical skill who need a good primer on how to implement a cash-generating website. Those unfamiliar with Joomla! would benefit from reading Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1. Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that helps users build websites and other powerful online applications. It is an open-source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Through this book users will learn to create powerful AJAX-enabled scripts, striking visual effects, and view-enhancing behaviours using jQuery. This book is written for themers and module developers interested in building richer front ends with Drupal 6 and JavaScript. This book will guide users in incorporating AJAX technologies, developing themes in JavaScript, and using the JavaScript translation system. In addition to incorporating JavaScript into the Drupal modules, users will learn how to design and authorize simple PHPTemplate files in order to maximize scripting potential.

Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, It guides users through setting up a basic work flow for Joomla! template design, debugging and validating the template code, creating drop-down menus and dynamic forms for your site, and packaging up your finished template in a ZIP file for users. After reading this book users will be able to create a template that is effective, flexible, and presents a new look for the pre-existing content. For more information visit: http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-template-design-2nd-edition/book

Learn to install and configure Magento, and add products to your online catalog using "Magento Beginner's Guide" by William Rice. This book helps customers navigate their online store and to create categories and attributes to build their catalog of products and enhance it with descriptions, images, and inventory information.

“Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development” is a new book from Packt for PHP web developers who want to get started with Symfony. It will help design, develop, and deploy feature-rich, high-performance PHP web applications. One would be able to create a real-life application from design to deployment and explore all the major aspects of the Symfony framework with this example driven tutorial. Towards the end of the book, users would have a good understanding of the development features of Symfony (for Propel as well as Doctrine editions), and be able to deploy a high-performance web site quite easily.

Users will learn to make these extensions extensible, add extensions points which will allow third parties to customize their extensions and create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities. The book contains step-by-step mini examples that illustrate how developers can overcome common design and implementation problems when creating Joomla! extensions.