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WordPress 2.7 Complete

rleir — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:20:52 +0000

WordPress 2.7 Complete : create your own complete blog or website from scratch with WordPress / April Hodge Silver, Hasin Hayder, Packt, 2009

A user manual for Wordpress which starts with the basics of setting up a blog and ventures as far as customizing the site with plugins in PHP. The last few chapters are valuable to the reader, because the online Wordpress guides are not always well organized. 250 pages.

How to do everything : Facebook Applications

rleir — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:31:05 +0000

How to do everything : Facebook Applications / Jesse Feiler, McGraw-Hill, 2008

The first half of this book just introduces the Facebook platform. Then it gets into the coding of apps using PHP, CSS, SQL, and FBML (Facebook Markup Language). 300 pages.

Understanding Drupal

rleir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:45:23 +0000

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.

Pro Drupal

rleir — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:29:29 +0000

Pro 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.

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

rleir — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:06:31 +0000

Learning 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

rleir — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:50:16 +0000

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

rleir — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:41:29 +0000

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

rleir — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:29:45 +0000

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

rleir — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:37:46 +0000

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

rleir — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:24:59 +0000

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.