Programming Ruby or PHP Cookbook

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Pragmatic Programmers Series)

Author: Dave Thomas

Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide." Now in its second edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections: An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby. The definitive reference to the language. Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries. If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the expanded content, including enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the World Wide Web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems, and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing. This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is awonderfullypowerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks

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PHP Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for PHP Programmers

Author: David Sklar

When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more 19 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook's unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges.
"PHP Cookbook" has a wealth of solutions for problems that you'll face regularly. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, this guide contains practical examples -- or "recipes" -- for anyone who uses this scripting language to generate dynamic web content. Updated for PHP 5, this book provides solutions that explain how to use the new language features in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQLi database extension. New sections on classes and objects are included, along with new material on processing XML, building web services with PHP, and working with SOAP/REST architectures. With each recipe, the authors include a discussion that explains the logic and concepts underlying the solution.

Table of Contents:

1	Strings	1
2	Numbers	35
3	Dates and times	57
4	Arrays	101
5	Variables	141
6	Functions	157
7	Classes and objects	177
8	Web basics	229
9	Form	259
10	Database access	291
11	Sessions and data persistence	335
12	XML	351
13	Web automation	395
14	Consuming Web services	439
15	Building Web services	461
16	Internet services	489
17	Graphics	517
18	Security and encryption	543
19	Internationalization and localization	569
20	Error handling, debugging, and testing	595
21	Performance tuning and load testing	627
22	Regular expressions	641
23	Files	663
24	Directories	703
25	Command-line PHP	727
26	PEAR and PECL	743