Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP Book

Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP

Extremely useful for web-programmers book. A full cycle development of web-applications – from the beginning until the very end. The book is in English, as well as literally came out the other day and had not yet been translated. 

Want to assert yourself as a cutting-edge PHP web developer? Take a practical approach, learning by example from author Quentin Zervaas, and discover how to bring together the many technologies needed to create a successful, modern web application. 
What you’ll learn 

• How to set up the perfect PHP / MySQL application development environment 
• How to implement basic user management functionality 
• How to use many of the components from the Zend Framework 
• How to effectively make use of the Prototype and script.aculo.us javascript libraries, including many examples of developing custom javascript classes 
• How to create standards-compliant and accessible HTML code and effectively style it using CSS 
• How to create a basic blog system and enhance it with Ajax 
• How to add personalized user areas to your web application 
• How to create a dynamic image gallery 
• How to add search functionality to your application 
• How to use the Google Maps API to add maps to your application 
• How to implement popular Web 2.0 features, such as microformats, tags, and web feeds  

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