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PHP is an open source, server-side, HTML-embedded web-scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. Not only browser-independent, PHP offers simple cross-platform solutions for e-commerce, and web and database-driven applications. Enter Professional PHP4. This book will show you exactly how to create fantastic web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also teaches PHP by coding FTP and e-mail clients, advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming....

Java servlets are fast becoming indispensable enterprise components, as they provide a means to build scalable and portable business services that communicate over the Web. This book provides a comprehensive guide to developing applications based on the Java Servlet 2.3 API, a part of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.3. The book reveals how and where servlets fit into an enterprise solution, and addresses issues such as security, scalability, performance and design. It walks you through the API covering the role of all the classes and interfaces and provides lots of example applications to demonstrate servlets in action. The book also covers the key role that servlets play in the new web services development model. What does this book cover?...

The Zend Framework is a truly amazing PHPbased web application development framework and platform that is breathing new life into PHP development. One of the most common uses for a framework such as this is to build contentdriven web sites. Pro Zend FrameworkTechniques offers: A structured guide for PHP developers, ultimately helping you to create more flexible software much more quickly Clear guidance through the entire process of building a customcontent management system (CMS)with the Zend Framework The ideal example project, building a CMS, to illustrate how to use the many different aspects of the framework What youll learn How to structure a real Zend Framework application top to bottom using a CMS application How to work with abstract (f...

The modern Web is awash with data and services just waiting to be used, but how do you make effective use of all this information? The answer lies in APIs (such as Google Maps, Flickr, and Amazon Web Services) and remixing, or mashups. Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services teaches you everything you need to create useful, dynamic realworld applications using APIs, web services, Ajax, web standards, and serverside languages. All you need to make full use of this book is basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and at least one serverside language (such as PHP or ASP.NET). Highlights include the following: Looks at the overall shape of todays Web from a developers point of viewwhat are its main features, and what is available for u...

The main focus of Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT is an analysis of a full-fledged Web 2.0 application called GWT College Bound. This book is for people who are looking to get beyond small proof-of-concept sample applications and want to see what the guts of a full-fledged Google Web Toolkit application should look like....