Understanding Drupal [videorecording (DVD)] / Lullabot, Inc
Lullabot creates web sites for MTV, Sony, and other large companies. This video is an overview of developing a site with Drupal.
Posts Tagged ‘PHP’
Understanding Drupal
Monday, January 18th, 2010Pro Drupal
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Pro Drupal Development / John K. VanDyk, Apress, 2008
Drupal is a powerful CMS and this book is a solid, well written description for developers. It will be useful if you are programming a web app or a Drupal module. 600 pages.
Drupal 6 Module Development
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Learning Drupal 6 Module Development : a practical tutorial for creating your first Drupal 6 modules with PHP / Matt Butcher, Packt Publishing, 2008
For CMS programmers. 300 pages.
Internet & World Wide Web : how to program
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Internet & World Wide Web : how to program / P.J. Deitel, H.M. Deitel, Pearson Prentice Hall 2008
This book is an excellent guide to programming web apps. Flash, Flex, PHP, Ruby, AJAX, DB’s, CSS, DOM, RSS… A colorful cover that will wake you up, and 1350 pages!!
Professional PHP6
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Professional PHP6 / Ed Lecky-Thompson, Wiley, 2009
This book is not for beginners, and includes sections on object oriented PHP, authentication, project management, performance, and career planning. 700 pages.
Head first PHP & MySQL
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Head first PHP & MySQL / Lynn Beighley, Michael Morrison, O’Reilly, 2009
A tutorial with visual gags that will keep anyone, teen or older, glued to the pages. It still retains the great O’Reilly quality. 750 pages.
Essential PHP security
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Essential PHP security / Chris Shiflett, O’Reilly, 2006
This 100 page slim book is required reading for all PHP programmers (that’s all of us, isn’t it?)
Building web sites all-in-one for dummies
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Building web sites all-in-one for dummies / by Doug Sahlin and Claudia Snell, Wiley, 2009
Here is a good introduction to web site planning, design, and development. Much of it is basic, but at 750 pages it has room for information on e-commerce, PHP, Javascript and Flash.
Professional CodeIgniter
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Professional CodeIgniter / Thomas Myer, Wiley, 2008
Structure your PHP web app using a MVC framework. This book on the CodeIgnitor framework starts by comparing it to the Symfony and CakePHP frameworks. Then agile programming is discussed, and you dive into code examples with a shopping cart, a dashboard and a WYSIWYG editor. The book has 300 very readable and practical pages.
PHP and MySQL : create-modify-reuse
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
PHP and MySQL : create-modify-reuse / Tim Boronczyk with Martin E. Psinas, Wiley, 2008
This is a cookbook full of good example code. There is not much introduction, then it jumps in to User Registration, Community Forum, Mailing List, Search Engine, Personal Calendar, Ajax File Manager, Online Photo Album, Shopping Cart, Web Site Statistics and News/Blog System . There is good advice on writing shell scripts. The book ends with a good, clear discussion of security and logging.