Use PHP to accomplish real-world, professional tasks. Incorporating five
hands-on projects, PHP Professional Projects is your key to unlocking the
power of PHP. Each project focuses on a specific PHP concept and is based on a
real-world situation. You will be able to use the skills that you develop
throughout the book to modify the projects as needed to fit your professional
needs.

Create a User Registration Form: Using various form elements, create a user
registration form for an online shopping site. You will use PHP script to track
form value and check for errors. Your PHP script will give you experience using
variables, operator, and control structures.

Store and Retrieve Data From Files: Using the registration form that you have
just created, you will learn how to store data in a file and to retrieve the
data using various file functions. You will learn the basics of file handling
such as reading and writing to a file as well as pack and unpack function.

Work with MYSQL Using PHP: Begin by creating a database table and inserting
data with a form and PHP script. Query your database table based on specific
criteria and allow results to be displayed. Further your understanding of
handling data storage and using PHP with a SQL database.

Create a Catalog and Shopping Cart: Cover all of the steps necessary to
create a product catalog and shopping cart with PHP beginning with user
registration. Learn how to add and remove products and customers and to send a
feedback message using the mail function.

Master User Authentication and Tracking: Learn how to configure HTTP
authentication on Apache and to create users. Begin with the basics of
password-based authentication and password storage. Then create a PHP script
that will validate users, and learn how to use cookies and sessions to track
users.

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What you hold in your hands is the answer to all your PHP 5 needs. We have written PHP 5 Recipes with a number of purposes in mind. First, this book is a source of instant solutions, including countless pieces of useful code that you can just copy and paste into your own applications, giving you answers fast and saving you hours of coding time.
Second, this book is a useful reference to the most important aspects of the PHP 5 language, including the vital functions you know and love from previous versions of PHP, as well as the functions introduced in PHP 5.

Finally, this book explains the new PHP 5 functionality in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQLi database extension.
We are confident PHP 5 Recipes will be a useful and welcome companion throughout your PHP journey, keeping you on the cutting edge of PHP development, ahead of the
competition, and giving you all the answers you need, when you need them.

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The first book to unlock the true power behind Gmail, Hacking Gmail will immediately appeal to Google and Gmail fans This is serious, down-and-dirty, under-the-hood, code-level hacking that will have readers eliminating the default settings, customizing appearance, disabling advertising, and taking control over their Gmail accounts Covers turning Gmail into an online hard drive for backing up files, using it as a blogging tool, and even creating customized Gmail tools and hacks Shows readers how to check their Gmail without visiting the site; use Gmail APIs in Perl, Python, PHP, and other languages, or create their own; and maximize Gmail as a host for message boards, photo galleries, even a blog.

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If you were traveling in Spain, but couldn’t speak Spanish very well, you’d probably carry a Spanish dictionary with you. If you are a PHP developer who needs a portable reference guide for frequent use in your job, the PHP Phrasebook is perfect for you. The PHP Phrasebook is actually a pocket guide that is
jam-packed with useful and essential PHP code “phrases” for the PHP developer’s everyday use. The code is flexible, so it can be easily adapted to your needs and mulitple situations, and your time isn’t wasted wading through chapters of tutorial lessons and extraneous information. The phrasebook covers PHP 5 and is relevant for PHP 4.
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