Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services

By Eric Rosebrock and Sybex

Book Overview

Build Dynamic Websites with PHP and MySQL--and Extend Those Sites with Web Services PHP and MySQL are great tools for building database-driven websites. There's nothing new about that. What is new is the environment in which your site operates--a world rich (and growing richer) in web services that can add value and functionality in many different ways. Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services walks you through every step of a major web project--a content-management system--teaching you both the basic techniques and little-known tricks you need to build successful web sites. And you can use those skills to develop dynamic applications that will meet your special requirements. Here's some of what you'll find covered inside: Adding, deleting, and displaying data with a custom content-management system Building a template system with PHP Interacting with web services using PHP and MySQL Creating and managing a user system and a shopping cart Processing credit card payments using merchant accounts and third-party payment solutions Tracking site statistics using PHP and MySQL Enhancing your site with third-party scripts Tons of examples, complete with explanations and supported by online source code, will speed your progress, whether you're a true beginner or already have PHP experience. This book is platform-agnostic, so it doesn't matter if you're deploying your site on Linux or Windows. You also get PHP and MySQL references, so you can quickly resolve questions about syntax and similar issues.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782142796
• ISBN13: 9780782142792
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent for Beginning Webmasters

I became webmaster for a large (?) website (over 200 pages in the root folder alone) that had been designed for Contribute (a "distributed" Dreamweaver, sort of). I read this book, implemented almost verbatim the entire website configuration descriptions and have been running this for several years now with not a regret. I knew PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, and CSS somewhat when I started but had never worked at a large formal website...

Best PHP book in my collection

This is a wonderful book. The code is easy to understand and is broken down. Eric did a wonderful job with this book. I successfully developed a member management system thanks to this book.. I give it five stars.

Immediate productivity, unlike many other coding books

I am a graphic designer turned web designer with years of experience now coding HTML and CSS directly. Wanting to broaden my overall web site development abilities I started looing at books on basic scripting and database development for creating more efficient and dynamic sites. My interest was not to learn PHP for the sake of knowing another language and becoming a master programmer (as the aim of most other programming...

OUTSTANDING!

This is a very informative book! It is extremely thorough from start to finish, with real world examples and solutions. It is obvious that the author put a great deal of time into this book, as evidenced by the in-depth coverage of the code and services. This book, along with www.phpfreaks.com, gives the average coder the tools necessary to become a superior developer.I highly recommend this book to anyone who is working with...

Excellent book!!

I'm your basic novice non-programmer type looking for a career change. I lucked into this book at Borders, sat down and looked through it. Well, I came home and have been working my way through this book all night. I've learned more about PHP and MySQL in about six hours time than I had expected to. This book is so incredibly easy to follow that I can't even put it down to sleep. So far, I'm up to Chapter 4 and going fast...