Название: Learning PHP: A Gentle Introduction to the Web’s Most Popular Language Автор: David Sklar
Издательство: O'Reilly Media
Год: 2016
Страниц: 415
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub +code
Размер: 11.8 MB
If you want to get started with PHP, this book is essential. Author David Sklar (PHP Cookbook) guides you through aspects of the language you need to build dynamic server-side websites. By exploring features of PHP 5.x and the exciting enhancements in the latest release, PHP 7, you’ll learn how to work with web servers, browsers, databases, and web services. End-of-chapter exercises help you make the lessons stick.
Whether you’re a hobbyist looking to build dynamic websites, a frontend developer ready to add server-side programs, or an experienced programmer who wants to get up to speed with this language, this gentle introduction also covers aspects of modern PHP, such as internationalization, using PHP from the command line, and package management.
Learn how PHP interacts with browsers and servers
Understand data types, variables, logic, looping, and other language basics
Explore how to use arrays, functions, and objects
Build and validate web forms
Work with databases and session management
Access APIs to interact with web services and other websites
Jumpstart your project with popular PHP web application frameworks
Who This Book Is For:
This book will be useful for many different kinds of people:
• A hobbyist who wants to create an interactive website for himself, his family, or a nonprofit organization
• A website builder who wants to use the PHP setup provided by an ISP or hosting provider
• A developer or designer who needs to write a plugin or extension for a popular piece of software written in PHP, such as Drupal, WordPress, or MediaWiki
• A page designer who wants to communicate better with her developer co-workers
• A jаvascript whiz who wants to build server-side programs that complement her client-side code
• A Perl, Python, or Ruby programmer who wants to get up to speed with PHP
• Anybody who wants a straightforward, jargon-free introduction to one of the most popular programming languages for building interactive websites
PHP’s gentle learning curve and approachable syntax make it an ideal “gateway” language for the nontechnical web professional. Learning PHP is aimed at this interested, intelligent, but not necessarily technical individual as well as at programmers familiar with another language who want to learn PHP.
If you are completely new to programming and embarking on your first interactive website, you’ve got the right book in your hands. The beginning chapters will give you a gentle introduction to the syntax of the PHP language and basic computer programming topics as they apply to PHP. Start at the beginning of the book and work your way forward.
If you are familiar with programming in another language but starting your first PHP project, you may want to start with the second section of the book and dip back into the first set of chapters when you have a specific question about syntax or how something basic is done in PHP.
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