Review
From the reviews: "This book on PHP for scientists and engineers is a slim volume--only 141 pages, including the index at the end. PHP texts usually focus on e-commerce applications, such as shopping carts, document generation, and Web services. … quite suitable for handling problems in scientific or engineering data management and doing smaller scale calculations on this data. … A set of programming exercises is provided at the end of the book." (Anthony J. Duben, ACM Computing Reviews, April, 2009)
Product Description
This book provides an introduction to PHP and server-side programming. It presents readers with a science or engineering background with the information to write their own online applications requiring reading, creating and manipulating data files stored as text on a server, overcoming the limitations of a client-side language. It focuses only on those elements of the language, such as file input/output, arrays, built-in math functions, and user-created functions that are essential for solving a wide range of scientific/engineering computing problems - and assumes a working knowledge of programming concepts and HTML, JavaScript, C or a similar language. It contains complete applications and hence offers a very compact and efficient way for working professionals to take advantage of the possibilities offered by server-side programming. Written for a technical audience, this book is an effective learning tool to the essentials of PHP and is also ideal for self-study.