PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository, is a bountiful resource for any PHP developer. Within its confines lie the tools that you need to do your job more quickly and efficiently. You need to be able to quickly assess and determine which PEAR package is the right one for the task you are up against. Then you need to know the API and see some examples of how to best use it. "Foundations of PEAR" is your one-stop resource for locating the PEAR package you need. Authors Nathan Good and Allan Kent have carefully selected the most useful and widely used packages for this book.

Each package is broken down logically by function, and each one is covered in detail. The book presents each package in a manner that allows you to jump quickly to the key items you need to implement a solution. The authors understand that you need to see the packages in actioneach performing in real-world applications. So they've included four projects in the book that each use a combination of PEAR packages in their implementations. Once you're armed with the knowledge in this book, you'll be set to take your PHP development to a new level.

This is a concise, compact, no-nonsense book that teaches the reader how to develop accessible, standards compliant PHP-driven web sites using the latest technologies: PHP 5 and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 is the development tool. This book presents PHP Web development with Dreamweaver in real-world tutorials so you can expect fast results as you progress through the book. Full book support will be available online and via email.Technology involved: - PHP - The most popular open source server-side scripting language, with extensive support available in Dreamweaver MX- MySQL - One of the most popular open source RDBMSs, and the database of choice for use with dynamic PHP-driven web sites- Apache 1.3 - the most popular open source web server, and the web server of choice for serving PHP web sites - Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 is Macromedias new version of their hugely popular WSIWYG web page creation tool, with much improved feature

* Thoroughly covers Dreamweaver MX 2004, providing real-world examples, and delving more deeply than the competition. * Covers Mac and PC, and both server-side and client-side technologies. * The four "design projects" may be adapted by a reader, to suit his or her own specific needs (like saving time on coding, developing a portfolio, or just gaining inspiration).

Although many web professionals will have incorporated a database into a web site before, they may not have much experience of designing them - this book will teach you all you need to know about designing a database for use with a web site or web application. From first principles to designing a successful web database, this book will show you how to get the most out of database design. From the Publisher Unlike other database design books in the market, this one focuses on design of databases for use on the Web. Web databases benefit from good general database design principles, but also have their own set of caveats, which must be considered for their design to be truly successful. This book covers both the general, and the web-specific database principles.

We gave four web professionals a design brief: we asked them each to plan, design, and implement a specific type of web site, then write up all their design and development considerations - how to be visually appealing while usable and accessible, how to wireframe the sites, and how to develop them with usability and accessibility in mind. The web sites are: A corporate site (designed using CSS and templates on a Mac) A news portal (made using PHP on a PC) An entertainment site (a visually appealing fan site for the band U2, made using a Mac) A company intranet site (made using ASP on a PC) The authors also take you through the complete code for each site (including server-side functionality, CSS, and Dreamweaver templates), which is available for download from glasshaus. Using this book, you can learn from their work, and multiply your own Dreamweaver knowledge.