No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP

A practical and concise book that teaches XML from the ground up. This tutorial style presents various XML methodologies and techniques in an easy to understand way, building a basis for further exploration. XML is essentially an enabling technology, dry and boring on its own. As a result, most books on the market are dry, and academic in nature teaching theory rather than practice. This book actually teaches practical, real-world applications of XML, using the very latest version of PHP (PHP 5)...

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Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition

Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to two of the most prominent open source technologies on the planet: the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database server. Updated to introduce the features found in MySQLs most significant release to date, readers learn how to take advantage of the latest features of both technologies to build powerful, manageable, and stable web applications. Essentially three books in one, readers not...

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PHP 5 CMS Framework Development

If you're developing a content management system in PHP 5, there are times when you simply have to roll-your-own, for whatever reason. In those situations, this book will be invaluable. If you're looking for an inside guide to putting together the working framework of a flexible, robust content management system in PHP 5, this book is for you. As a former development team leader on the renowned Mambo open-source content management system, author Martin Brampton offers unique insight and practical...

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Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More

Taking care to focus solely on those topics that will have the most impact on experienced PHP developers, Pro PHP is written for readers seeking to take their understanding of both PHP and sound software development practices to the next level. Advanced object¨Coriented features, documentation, debugging, software patterns, and the Standard PHP Library are just a few of the topics covered in extensive detail. Author and noted PHP expert Kevin McArthur also examines emerging practices and trends...

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PHP | Architect's Guide to PHP Security

Security is a hot topic these days, with new exploits and patches released on a daily basis for all sorts of operating systems and applications. Recently, the security bubble has expanded to touch the PHP world, and several well-known applications have been the target of a great number of attacks. Despite all the negative publicity, however, PHP is and remains a very stable--and very secure--programming environment. php|architect's Guide to PHP Security, written by security expert (and...

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AdSense API: Social Networks Revenue Engine

As reported before, AdSense API is a service for community-driven sites that lets the users of the sites integrate their AdSense accounts and manage them. It's useful for social networks, blog hosting or web publishing sites that have more than 100,000 page views a day.Sites will be able to:* programmatically display ads* show search boxes* add referral buttons* filter ads with specific URLs* generate reports on AdSense accountsSo they'll be able to do exactly the same things as Google AdSense site.AdSense...

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Hack I.T.: Security Through Penetration Testing

Penetration testing--in which professional, "white hat" hackers attempt to break through an organization¡¯s security defenses--has become a key defense weapon in today¡¯s information systems security arsenal. Through penetration testing, I.T. and security professionals can take action to prevent true "black hat" hackers from compromising systems and exploiting proprietary information. Hack I.T.introduces penetration testing and its vital role in an overall network security plan. You will learn about...

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XML Bible, Gold Edition

The emergence of XML is having an enormous impact on Web development, and scaling the learning curve of this new technology is a priority for many developers. The XML Bible offers a superb introduction to the subject and the groundwork to understand XML's future developments. Author Elliotte Rusty Harold uses a patient, step-by-step discussion that clearly points out the potential of XML without boring his readership with tons of SGML spec-speak. Harold opens quickly with a "Hello World" example...

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Pro PHP XML and Web Services

Pro PHP XML and Web Services is the authoritative guide to using the XML features of PHP 5 and PHP 6. No other book covers XML and Web Services in PHP as deeply as this title. The first four chapters introduce the core concepts of XML required for proficiency, and will bring you up to speed on the terminology and key concepts you need to proceed with the rest of the book. Next, the book explores utilizing XML and Web Services with PHP5. Topics include DOM, SimpleXML, SAX, xmlReader, XSLT, RDF,...

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real-world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security weakness found within a variety of applications such as online banking, e-commerce and other web applications.The topics covered include bypassing login mechanisms,...

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Professional XML (Programmer to Programmer)

From document type definitions and XQuery to Web services and form development, this book takes you through all of the XML capabilities that companies want to implement today. It not only covers the basics of XML and the XML specification, but also shows you the XML-based applications that are driving the tech industry forward, such as blogging and alerts.Professional XML first guides you through the steps for utilizing XML and XML-based presentation technologies. It next delves into the steps you...

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Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build advanced web sites and applications with ASP.NET Ajax--and upgrade existing pages to deliver more power and business value. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson equips you with sufficient information and guides you to mastery of Ajax in real-world applications.One step at a time, you’ll discover how to make the most of the Microsoft Ajax Library and Ajax Server Extensions. You’ll develop secure, reliable Web...

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Hacker Web Exploitation Uncovered

A description and analysis of the vulnerabilities caused by programming errors in Web applications, this book is written from both from the attacker's and security specialist's perspective. Covered is detecting, investigating, exploiting, and eliminating vulnerabilities in Web applications as well as errors such as PHP source code injection, SQL injection, and XSS. The most common vulnerabilities in PHP and Perl scripts and methods of exploiting these weaknesses are described, information on writing...

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HTML and CSS

This book's for you. We'll leverage what you already know about the web, so you'll go further, faster than you ever expected. You'll master today's best practices: the real nuts and bolts, not theory or hooey. You'll learn through dozens of focused HTML, XHTML, and CSS examples: crafted for simplicity and easy to adapt for your own projects.Need specific solutions? This book's modular, visual, high-efficiency format delivers them instantly. Molly E. Holzschlag draws on her unparalleled experience...

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The Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer

“This book is a great reference for web designers new to ASP.NET who are looking to jump start their development with Visual Web Developer 2008.”Mikhail ArkhipovPrincipal Development Manager – Web Development ToolsMicrosoft CorporationExpression Web introduced ASP.NET to a new group of web developers. This book is designed to help you start using ASP.NET right away to add powerful new features to your website. Don’t worry, you won’t have to learn a lot of programming; instead, you’ll create an...

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Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide

The way has been paved by the tech-savvy and resource-rich, but any library or librarian can successfully create and syndicate a blog today. In this readable book, author, Internet trainer, and blogger Michael P. Sauers, M.L.S., shows how blogging and RSS technology can be easily and effectively used in the context of a library community. Sauers showcases interesting and useful blogs, shares insights from librarian bloggers, and offers step-by-step instructions for creating, publishing, and syndicating...

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Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn

.fullpost{display:inline;} Integrated HTML and CSS,you'll learn about:* Writing well-structured HTML for use by any web-capable device* Designing page layouts using CSS* Controlling fonts, colors, backgrounds, borders, and margins* Using lists to create attractive, button-like menus* Using images as backgrounds, links, page content, and decoration* Creating and styling forms* Personalizing your weblog* Understanding and applying design and usability principles* Publishing and testing your pages*...

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Core Java 2, Volume II: Advanced Features (5th Edition)

.fullpost{display:inline;} Core Java, Volume 2, Fifth Edition offers all-new discussions of XML and servlets, plus thoroughly revamped coverage of many advanced features -- from collections to native methods, security to Swing. Cay Horstmann begins with thoroughly updated coverage of JDK 2 Version 1.3 multithreading, collections, and networking. He presents a detailed chapter on advanced database integration utilizing the JDBC API; completely revised coverage of remote objects; advanced techniques...

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