Sitepoint - The PHP Anthology, Volume II: Applications

As a PHP developer, there are certain problems you’re almost guaranteed to face. Generating charts and graphs, converting HTML documents to PDF format—PHP is equipped to handle all of these, but coming up with the best implementation can be tricky! Now, instead of trawling through message boards and mailing lists for the answer, you can just crack open The PHP Anthology!
The PHP Anthology is a complete reference guide for any PHP developer --hobbyist or professional-- to help you write better, faster and more secure code that solves common problems. The author, Harry Fuecks, has compiled over 100 best-practice solutions that any developer will find invaluable when building content management systems, intranets, shopping carts or anything else.

In the second Volume volume of The PHP Anthology you’ll:

- find out all about user authentication using PHP, including creating a user registration system that supports user groups and permissions.

- learn to parse RSS feeds using the SAX and DOM APIs, and also create your own RSS feeds

- generate PDFs, SVG images and WAP-enable your Website

- explore the various ways of colleting site statistics and traffic information so you can improve the user experience on the sites you build

- speed up your site by caching pages, both client and server-side to dramatically increase performance and decrease bandwidth usage

- optimize your code, learn about N-Tier application design, and minimize errors with unit testing

- learn how to apply five traditional software design patterns to real problems in PHP

From the Publisher
The PHP Anthology takes the most common problems posted by PHP developers in many discussion lists, forums and newsgroups and shows you how to solve them using modern PHP-coding practices. Along with detailed discussion of the key issues involved in solving specific problems, The PHP Anthology promotes development using PHP’s Object Oriented Programming (OOP) features and popular Open Source libraries.

All solutions and code in the books have been reviewed and approved by today’s top PHP experts, including Kevin Yank, author of the best-selling "Build Your Own Database-Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL". In other words, you can be assured that the books will show you how to develop rock solid, secure applications in the most efficient way possible.

The PHP Anthology can serve as a reference book to over 100 common problems, or if you want to read it cover-to-cover, it can serve as tutorial on advanced PHP coding techniques. Either way, it will provide you with unique insight to help you drastically improve your development techniques, cut down on needless lines of code and avoid potential security pitfalls.

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