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  • Paperback: 468 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (12 Dec 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596101392
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596101398
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 398,043 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility and convenience. When it comes to creating web sites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used on more than 19 million web sites, surpassing Microsoft's ASP .NET technology in popularity. Not surprisingly, this surge in usage has resulted in a number of PHP books hitting the market. Only one, though, takes the language beyond traditional Web programming and into mapping, graphing, multimedia, and beyond: "PHP Hacks". In "PHP Hacks", author Jack Herrington wrings out his 20 years of code generation experience to deliver hands-on tools ranging from basic PHP and PEAR installation and scripting to advanced multimedia and database optimizing tricks. On the practical side of things, "PHP Hacks" helps you develop more robust PHP applications by explaining how to improve your database design, automate application testing, and employ design patterns in your PHP scripts and classes. In the category of "cool," Herrington explains how to upgrade your Web interface through the creation of tabs, stickies, popups, and calendars. He even examines how to leverage maps and graphics in PHP. There's also a bounty of image and application hacks, including those that show you how to: integrate web sites with Google maps and satellite imaging; dynamically display iPhoto libraries online; add IRC, SMS, and Instant Messaging capabilities to your Web applications; drop the latest Wikipedia dictionary onto your Sony PSP; and render graphics and user interfaces with SVG, DHTML, and Ajax. Whether you're a newcomer or an expert, you'll find great value in "PHP Hacks", the only PHP guide that offers something useful and fun for everyone.

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This valuable guide offers both practical and fun PHP programming techniques. Learn to develop more robust PHP applications by improving your database design, automating application testing, and employing design patterns in your PHP scripts and classes. Image and application hacks explain how to create custom MP3 broadcasts, integrate with iTunes, and generate PDFs. Designed for all PHP programmers, from newcomers to experts.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great list of practical examples, 1 Mar 2006
The book provides an excellent list of UI tips and tricks with examples explained. Some back-end examples are available as well but a bit less interesting because they assume you are starting from scratch, which is rarely the case for me.
It also contains a good list of pointers to techniques that might help you improve your creations.
I was pleased by the fact that it treats of both PHP4 and PHP5, but a bit disappointed by it's lack of focus on W3C standards.

It is clearly structured, well sorted into chapters and it provides a valuable source of code to keep at hand in the long run. A bit like a cookbook but still pleasant to read through as a "sequential" book.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Better value for beginners, 14 May 2006
By K. Naylor "scratchitbook.co.uk" (Stafford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book contains well explained, manageable sized examples from basic through to advanced PHP. As I am not new to PHP, I found that the first half of the book was a bit easy and most of it I could do already. However, the later examples are really interesting.

A PHP beginner would derive much more value from the book because the basic stuff will set you well on your way and then you can grow into the more advanced hacks.

A few of the examples are not strictly PHP, for example making usable URLs with mod_rewrite is more of an Apache 'hack'. Still, it's relevant and I think it's nice to go a little beyond the PHP occasionally. Quite a lot of the examples are just fun stuff that you'd probably never use in a commercial environment.

So, if you want something different to do at the weekend, this is the book for you.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Please don't buy this book!, 1 Feb 2006
By Michael Baierl (Vienna, Austria) - See all my reviews
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It's not worth the money --> the examples are wrong and even beginners should know everything thats noted in there. So save some money and buy another book.
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