PHP

This book starts with an overview of PHP Data Objects (PDO), followed by getting started with PDO. Then it covers error handling, prepared statements, and handling rowsets, before covering advanced uses of PDO and an example of its use in an MVC application. Finally an appendix covers the new object-oriented features of PHP 5. This book will guide you through the data layer abstraction objects in PHP. PHP developers who need to use PDO for data abstraction....

If you're an experienced Php developer, you already have a head start on learning how to write Node.js code. In this book, author Daniel Howard demonstrates the remarkable similarities between the two languages, and shows you how to port your entire Php web application to Node.js. By comparing specific Php features with their Node counterparts, you will also discover how to refactor and improve existing Php 4 or Php 5 source code. At the end, you will have two fully functional codebases to provide to your users. You can update both of them simultaneously, using this book as a reference to important aspects of Php and Node.js.Use a simple Node.js framework to convert individual Php pages to Node.js files Refactor blocking Php source code to non-blocki...