PHP Programming

The book walks you through the process of building a complete Web application with the Zend Framework, starting with the basics and then adding in more complex elements, such as data pagination and sorting, user authentication, exception handling, localization, and Web services. Debugging and performance optimization are also covered in this fast-paced tutorial.

CakePHP is a leading PHP based web app development framework. When asking a question on forums or chat rooms, many CakePHP beginners get little help from the experts. Simple questions can get a response like, Well, just read the online manual and API. Unfortunately, the online manual is depreciated, and who wants to absorb a programming language or framework from an API?

Doctrine is an object relational mapper (ORM) for PHP 5.2.3+ that sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL).

This book is an attempt to compile a set of basic instructions for what can be considered best practices for common and confusing issues and tasks in PHP. If a low-level task has multiple and confusing approaches in PHP, it belongs here.

High Performance Drupal is an essential, comprehensive guide to designing Drupal's supporting infrastructure and scalability, as well as a handbook for improving Drupal website performance. Drupal beginners will quickly learn a set of best practices in how to deploy a growable site which will withstand traffic surges. Intermediate and expert users will find this book to be the ultimate go-to reference source during initial planning for a site deployment or when implementing specific technologies such as Varnish, memcache, or Solr.

With over 200 pages of content at your fingertips, this free download is everything you need to learn how to make the most out of Views in Drupal 7 or 8. Get over the learning curve and reap the benefits of the capabilities of the Views module to select and present your Drupal content through step-by-step instructions for quickly developing dozens of useful views with dozens of step by step recipes and handy instructions to the day to day tasks you face!

This book teaches Web application development for the Laravel Framework version 4 for beginners.

This book is absolutely packed with quick solutions to common obstacles or ideas in PHP. The chapters on security are worth their weight in gold, as you'll learn how to properly protect your site against unauthorised use.

This book is an introduction into web development using PHP. PHP is a dynamic scripting language used in many places such as Wordpress or joomla, eCommerce platforms, social networking/media websites and more.

This book teaches everything you need to know to create effective web applications with the latest features in PHP 5.x. You will start with the big picture and then dive into language syntax, programming techniques, and other details, using examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms.

You will learn PHP programming language by understanding how its primary functions work, how it interacts with HTML, and how its nature of being a server-side scripting language differs from a client-side language, such as JavaScript.

Learn to use PHP in ways you never knew you could. Functional Programming offers a fundamental shift in the way you design your applications by focusing on the use and composition of pure functions to create programs that are robust, extensible, testable, and easy to reason about.

PHP is a server-side scripting language that is widely used for web development. With this book, you will get a deep understanding of the advanced programming concepts in PHP and how to apply it practically.

PHP 7 - the most dramatic update to the language in over a decade—has arrived. This O'Reilly report provides you with a short guide to the major changes in this new release, including a revamped engine (Zend Engine 3), a bunch of new features, and lots of language cleanup. You’ll learn about basic language changes, deprecated features, Unicode enhancements, changes in Object-Oriented programming, and other enhancements.

This book will serve as your complete guide for taking defensive and proactive security measures within your PHP applications. Beginners in secure programming will find a lot of material on secure PHP development, the basics of encryption, secure protocols, as well as how to reconcile the demands of server side and web application security.