- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (30 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 067232704X
- ISBN-13: 978-0672327049
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 18.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 626,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In just a few years PHP has rapidly evolved from a small niche language to a powerful web development tool. Now in use on over 14 million Web sites, PHP is more stable and extensible than ever. However, there is no documentation on how to extend PHP; developers seeking to build PHP extensions and increase the performance and functionality of their PHP applications are left to word of mouth and muddling through PHP internals without systematic, helpful guidance. Although the basics of extension writing are fairly easy to grasp, the more advanced features have a tougher learning curve that can be very difficult to overcome. This is common at any moderate to high-traffic site, forcing the company hire talented, and high-priced, developers to increase performance. With Extending and Embedding PHP, Sara Golemon makes writing extensions within the grasp of every PHP developer, while guiding the reader through the tricky internals of PHP.
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In just a few years PHP has rapidly evolved from a small niche language to a powerful web development tool. Now in use on over 14 million Web sites, PHP is more stable and extensible than ever. However, there is no documentation on how to extend PHP; developers seeking to build PHP extensions and increase the performance and functionality of their PHP applications are left to word of mouth and muddling through PHP internals without systematic, helpful guidance. Although the basics of extension writing are fairly easy to grasp, the more advanced features have a tougher learning curve that can be very difficult to overcome. This is common at any moderate to high-traffic site, forcing the company hire talented, and high-priced, developers to increase performance. With Extending and Embedding PHP, Sara Golemon makes writing extensions within the grasp of every PHP developer, while guiding the reader through the tricky internals of PHP.
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IN A COMMON WEB SERVER ENVIRONMENT, YOU'LL NEVER explicitly start the PHP interpreter; you'll start Apache or some other web server that will load PHP and process scripts as needed-that is, as .php documents are requested. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The only problem with this book, apart from the usual issues with shallowness that are virtually unavoidable when covering such a wide topic, is the fact that it is increasingly out-of-date. That is not to say that anything in it is wrong; the changes to the interface of PHP are generally backwards-compatible, especially when you correctly use the preprocessor macros as described. Rather, there are new, more powerful ways to do a lot of things that would be really useful to have covered as clearly as the contents of this book are covered here.
Perhaps the author and publisher will consider an updated edition after the next major update to PHP, as there are some fairly important changes already in (namespaces) and coming up.
Perhaps the author and publisher will consider an updated edition after the next major update to PHP, as there are some fairly important changes already in (namespaces) and coming up.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book, i have been looking for a book about PHP internals for a long time. I was very happy when i found this. This is very complete book about every PHP internal aspects!
I suggest everybody to read this whenever you are interested in how to maximize your favourite language knowledge and in how to extend it!
I suggest everybody to read this whenever you are interested in how to maximize your favourite language knowledge and in how to extend it!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Very well done!
22 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
I purchased this book based on an immediate need at my job, and have since created two nice PHP extensions. I found it to be extremely helpful at getting started into an otherwise poorly documented area of PHP and the Zend API. It does lack depth in some areas, such as PHP5 objects. I found that consulting the source code of several existing PHP extensions was necessary to fill in some of these gaps.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Just about the only book for a long time
14 Feb 2010
Format:Paperback
I work at a company where looking at source code is not an available means to decipher how things work. This book was the only way that I could accomplish my job of writing a custom PHP extension for connecting to our database product. In short, if it weren't for this book, I honestly don't know how I would have accomplished my job.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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10 Mar 2011
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If you need to write PHP extensions, you will need this book, simply because the information it contains is not available anywhere else. That being said, a lot of the content of this book feels like the kind of information that would normally be part of a free open source documentation.
The book assumes you are already somewhat familiar with PHP internals and basically "throws you in the deep end" right away. It is also aimed at C programmers (the language PHP is written in); if you only know PHP, you will probably have a hard time creating an extension using only the information contained in this book.
The book is also doesn't contain a lot of newer information, since it was written in 2006. Getting extensions to work with PHP 5.3 sometimes requires changes to old code that is not mentioned in this book.
The book assumes you are already somewhat familiar with PHP internals and basically "throws you in the deep end" right away. It is also aimed at C programmers (the language PHP is written in); if you only know PHP, you will probably have a hard time creating an extension using only the information contained in this book.
The book is also doesn't contain a lot of newer information, since it was written in 2006. Getting extensions to work with PHP 5.3 sometimes requires changes to old code that is not mentioned in this book.
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