Sunday, August 12, 2012


Introduction:

The PHP is an open source project that also happens to be the world’s most popular programming language for dynamic Web development, with Oracle, a proprietary database that also happens to be the world’s most popular solution for managing data. Although for some time it has been possible to use PHP and Oracle together, only recently have these efforts really begun to pay off because of increased activities in both camps by way of not only improvements to the interface but also to the creation of learning resources, documentation, and other utilities.
It seems as with most things in life, the success of the software development industry does not lie squarely within one extreme approach but rather somewhere in between. We hope this book will highlight the riches that can be wrought from a successful collaboration between the two.

Who This Book Is For.

Although this book presumes the reader has no prior experience using PHP or Oracle, seasoned users of these technologies may find it equally satisfactory because the authors have strived to create a book that strikes a balance between tutorial and reference. Our goal is to provide you with a resource that can be repeatedly referred to as you progress from a novice to an experienced developer.

Although basic introductions are often provided, this book does not seek to teach you fundamental programming concepts. After all, the book is not titled Beginning Programming with PHP and Oracle. And it does not teach you HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). If you are a programming novice or are not yet versed in the aforementioned Web technologies, consider picking up one or several of the fine Apress books covering these topics.

About The Author:

■W. JASON GILMORE has been obsessing over all things open source for more than ten years, with a primary focus on Web development technologies. He has been extensively published in publications such as Developer.com TechTarget, and Linux Magazine, with his writings adopted for use within the United Nations and Ford Foundation educational programs. Jason is the author of four books, including the best-se ling Beginning PHP and MySQL 5, Second Edition (http://www.beginningphpandmysql.com/), published by Apress. Jason spends his days running Apress’s open source program and his evenings writing, coding, and consulting. He’s a founding board member of CodeMash (http://www.codemash.org/), an organization dedicated to educating the development community. When not in front of the computer, Jason can typically be
found dreaming up home-remodeling projects, playing chess, and making homemade pasta. In his effort to occasionally get away from the keyboard, he recently bought, of all things, a piano.

■BOB BRYLA is an Oracle 9i and 10g  Certified Professional with more than 20 years of experience in database design, database application development, training, and database administration. He is an Internet database analyst and Oracle DBA at Lands’ End, Inc., in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. He is the author of several other Oracle DBA books for both the novice and seasoned professional.

Main Contents:

■CHAPTER 1 Introducing PHP.
■CHAPTER 2 Configuring Your Environment.
■CHAPTER 3 PHP Basics.
■CHAPTER 4 Functions.
■CHAPTER 5 Arrays.
■CHAPTER 6 Object-Oriented PHP.
■CHAPTER 7 Advanced OOP Features.
■CHAPTER 8 Error and Exception Handling.
■CHAPTER 9 Strings and Regular Expressions.
■CHAPTER 10 Working with the File and Operating System.
■CHAPTER 11 PEAR.
■CHAPTER 12 Date and Time.
■CHAPTER 13 Forms.
■CHAPTER 14 Authentication.
■CHAPTER 15 Handling File Uploads.
■CHAPTER 16 Networking.
■CHAPTER 17 PHP and LDAP.
■CHAPTER 18 Session Handlers.
■CHAPTER 19 Templating with Smarty.
■CHAPTER 20 Web Services.
■CHAPTER 21 Secure PHP Programming.
■CHAPTER 22 SQLite.
■CHAPTER 23 Introducing PDO.
■CHAPTER 24 Building Web Sites for the World.
■CHAPTER 25 MVC and the Zend Framework.
■CHAPTER 26 Introducing Oracle.
■CHAPTER 27 Installing and Configuring Oracle Database XE.
■CHAPTER 28 Oracle Database XE Administration.
■CHAPTER 29 Interacting with Oracle Database XE.
■CHAPTER 30 From Databases to Datatypes.
■CHAPTER 31 Securing Oracle Database XE. 
■CHAPTER 32 PHP’s Oracle Functionality.
■CHAPTER 33 Transactions.
■CHAPTER 34 Using HTML_Table with Advanced Queries.
■CHAPTER 35 Using Views.
■CHAPTER 36 Oracle PL/SQL Subprograms.
■CHAPTER 37 Oracle Triggers.
■CHAPTER 38 Indexes and Optimizing Techniques.
■CHAPTER 39 Importing and Exporting Data.
■CHAPTER 40 Backup and Recovery.

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