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Advanced PHP Programming (Developer's Library) (Paperback)

by George Schlossnagle (Author)
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  • Paperback: 672 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; illustrated edition edition (4 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0672325616
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672325618
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.8 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 224,268 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Over the past three years PHP has evolved from being a niche language used to add dynamic functionality to small sites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into large-scale, business-critical Web systems.

 

The rapid maturation of PHP has created a skeptical population of users from more traditional "enterprise" languages who question the readiness and ability of PHP to scale, as well as a large population of PHP developers without formal computer science backgrounds who have learned through the hands-on experimentation while developing small and midsize applications in PHP.

 

While there are many books on learning PHP and developing small applications with it, there is a serious lack of information on "scaling" PHP for large-scale, business-critical systems. Schlossnagle's Advanced PHP Programming fills that void, demonstrating that PHP is ready for enterprise Web applications by showing the reader how to develop PHP-based applications for maximum performance, stability, and extensibility.



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Over the past three years PHP has evolved from being a niche language used to add dynamic functionality to small sites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into large-scale, business-critical Web systems.

 

The rapid maturation of PHP has created a skeptical population of users from more traditional "enterprise" languages who question the readiness and ability of PHP to scale, as well as a large population of PHP developers without formal computer science backgrounds who have learned through the hands-on experimentation while developing small and midsize applications in PHP.

 

While there are many books on learning PHP and developing small applications with it, there is a serious lack of information on "scaling" PHP for large-scale, business-critical systems. Schlossnagle's Advanced PHP Programming fills that void, demonstrating that PHP is ready for enterprise Web applications by showing the reader how to develop PHP-based applications for maximum performance, stability, and extensibility.



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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate, Concise, Important, 20 Jun 2005
This book covers a whole number of hard core advanced PHP topics. I was at a pretty high PHP standard before I read this book, and when I did read it, it polished off any gaps in my knowledge, and helped me to become better. To give you an idea of how in depth this book is, on commandline PHP scripts, it covers chroot jailing your scripts, forking and controlling child processes from your script and special file locking to ensure only one instance of a script runs at any one time. It's an enormously in depth book that should a) be read well and b) be kept close by as a reference.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great enthusiasm badly implemented, 19 April 2007
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Like so often with PHP, this book suffers from having boundless enthusiasm for the topics at hand but lacks the professional polish which is so increasingly rare. Within the the first chapter alone there are numerous syntactical errors within the code and the writing surrounding them. As the book progresses these are coupled with ambiguous explanations of potentially thorny problems and some glaring naming inconsistencies.

If you're expecting a thoughtful and precise book, this isn't it, no matter how hard it tries to be. The book highlights a number of excellent ideas but comes off as more of an extended opinion piece by the author with colloquial language and even extolling the virtues of his own software (APC).

Great for the occasional dip into but expect to do a lot of your own research into the topics presented.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A PHP programmers must have!!, 24 Oct 2005
If you are a programmer and want to learn about good practice and design ideas, and are not interested in re-reading about loop constructs or basic beginner-type chapters, then this book is for you.

The author is evidently an 'expert' from the way he writes but it is also a very well written book providing informative and advanced ideas on how to get the best out of PHP5.

If you know your way around PHP4/5 and want to move onto the next stage, then buy it....you will not regret it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Concise, objective and confidently written. Smart ideas for advanced developers
I lent my copy of Advanced PHP Programming to a friend last year and when I finally got it back it was dog-eared and edge-worn - a testament to how brilliant and useful the book... Read more
Published 18 months ago by C. Neale

2.0 out of 5 stars Unacceptable number of mistakes
The book is ok generally in the areas it covers, however there are lots of errors in the example code and other parts of the text with some pieces taking many corrections to make... Read more
Published 20 months ago by M Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Breed for Advanced PHP Programming
As a teacher of PHP programming to final year undergraduates, I am always on the lookout for concise, well organized and accurate texts. Read more
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