Wow! eBook - Blog » PHP http://www.wowebook.be Great ebook, great site! Wed, 23 May 2012 21:39:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Using Drupal, 2nd Edition http://www.wowebook.be/book/using-drupal-2nd-edition/ http://www.wowebook.be/book/using-drupal-2nd-edition/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:57:38 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.be/?p=18395 Using Drupal, 2nd Edition

Book Description

Take advantage of ’s vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you’ll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites— including a job posting board, photo gallery, store, product review , and event calendar.

The second edition focuses on 7, the latest version of this system. Each project spans an entire chapter, with step-by-step “recipes” to help you build out the precise functionality the site requires. With this book, developers new to will gain experience through a hands-on introduction, and experienced developers will learn real-world best practices.

  • Learn Drupal’s concepts and building blocks, and how everything works together
  • Hit the ground running—build your first Drupal site hands-on
  • Explore solutions that meet each project’s requirements, and discover why specific modules were selected
  • Understand the projects through case studies, including the client’s needs and desires
  • Learn how to configure modules with a bird’s-eye view of how they work
  • Discover new modules, including Drupal Commerce, Media, and Workbench

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Drupal Overview
Chapter 2 Drupal Jumpstart
Chapter 3 Job Posting Board
Chapter 4 Media
Chapter 5 Product Reviews
Chapter 6 Event
Chapter 7 Managing Publishing Workflows
Chapter 8 Multilingual Sites
Chapter 9 Store

Appendix A. Installing and Upgrading Drupal
Appendix B. Choosing the Right Modules
Appendix C. Modules and Themes Used in This Book
Appendix D. Major Changes Between Drupal 6 and 7

Book Details

  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449390528
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449390525
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Book Description

! is one of the most popular open-source Content Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it’s a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive - sites that perfectly fit your needs.

Completely updated for ! 2.5, this practical guide teaches you how to create professional, appealing and extendable websites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club or build a personal site.

The Joomla! Beginner’s Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!’s powerful features. Completely updated from the first book, real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich websites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. This book thoroughly covers the concepts behind the software and creates a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do – it’s about what you can do using Joomla!.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create a feature-rich site that’s easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn languages such as and Cascading Style Sheets ()
  • Design attractive home pages that provide a quick overview of the site’s contents and direct people to the content they could be interested in
  • Engage your web visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments
  • Design clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks
  • Make full use of templates to get your site to look just right, tweaking the and customizing templates using your own logo, fonts, and colors
  • Extend Joomla!’s capabilities by finding and utilizing must-have extensions that perfectly meet your needs
  • Increase your site’s visibility for search engines by applying highly effective () techniques
  • Secure your site from hackers and potential threats using easy-to-follow techniques

Approach
Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner’s guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are bolstered by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building a successful Joomla! .

Who this book is for
This book is written for beginners to website design. By the end of the book you will have built a complete custom content managed website, and be ready to build any kind of website.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 426 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849517908
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517904
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Book Description

is one of the most powerful Content Systems there is. However, why would you install a for every site you build? With just one copy of you can host several sites. has long had multi-site support, and 7’s support is even better than previous versions.

Drupal 7 Multi-Sites Configuration will teach you how to host several websites on a single copy of Drupal. You will learn how to create different sites, each with its own domain, content, and . This valuable information will help you to save time by managing modules and sharing them across several sites as well as administering your sites all in one place.

This book will show you how to configure a system for multi-site, and then install several sites on one copy of Drupal, all with their own domain name and . Learn how to install and share modules and themes, configure , , and for multi-site, and then manage the site. Once your site system is successfully set up, discover some of the advanced configurations possible with Drupal multi-site, as well as how to upgrade and maintain your sites.

What you will learn from this book

  • Configure and for hosting multiple sites
  • Prepare Drupal 7 to host more than one site
  • Install several sites on one instance of Drupal
  • Manage, share, or isolate modules and themes in a multi-site configuration
  • Care for your multi-site server, safely managing and upgrading it
  • Rapidly build a multi-site testing environment with and Vagrant
  • Extend the core multi-site configuration with add-on modules

Approach
Follow the creation of a multi-site instance with Drupal. The practical examples and accompanying screenshots will help you to get multiple Drupal sites set up in no time.

Who this book is for
This book is for Drupal site builders. It is assumed that readers are familiar with Drupal already, with a basic grasp of its concepts and components. System concepts, such as configuring Apache, MySQL, and Vagrant are covered but no previous knowledge of these tools is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 100 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849518009
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849518000
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Book Description

The content system is purposely created with a ‘light footprint,’ leaving it to the user or developer to add wanted features. Views is the #1 add-on for and enables you to filter, select and present your content in ways that are more meaningful to your site visitors.

Drupal 7 Views allows you to bypass most of the Views learning curve and quickly take advantage of the capabilities of the Views through step-by-step instructions for quickly developing dozens of useful views.

Starting with a brief introduction to Views, Drupal 7 Views takes you through recipes for elementary views such as displaying randomly selected content, to intermediate views such as customizing links, to advanced views using multiple displays. Along the way there are recipes for theming views, creating a programmatic view and a view handler, administering views, and finally, using some other modules related to the Views module. Recipes are standalone, so pick them in any order!

Don’t limit your site with dull content presentation. Empower your site visitors with the recipes that Drupal 7 Views Cookbook delivers!

What you will learn from this book

  • Present menu choices for categorized subsets of your content
  • Create blocks containing interesting lists or randomly selected images
  • Link multiple content types to provide more complete information
  • Display complementary content in additional displays
  • Design a desktop-like page driven by user input
  • Deliver a view from inside a custom module
  • Manipulate the templates to add pizzazz to your views
  • Administer your views with confidence

Approach
This is a cookbook containing plenty of easy-to-follow practical recipes with screenshots that will help you in mastering the Drupal Views module.

Who this book is for
Drupal 7 Views Cookbook is for developers or technically proficient users who are fairly comfortable with the concepts behind websites and the Drupal environment.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 218 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849514348
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849514347
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Book Description

How disappointing is it to log on to a for a product or you love only to discover the feature you were drawn to doesn’t work on your or ? has brand new features to adapt your existing site into a site that will keep your customers coming back.

The Beginner’s Guide follows a humble ‘Mom & Pop’ restaurant which gets a makeover complete with cutting edge features that play to mobile, and desktop audiences. By following the fun example, you will finish the book having effortlessly adapted your so that it is accessible and, more importantly, looks good and functions well, on any mobile device.

Restaurant websites are notoriously horrible to navigate and our Mom & Pop example is wellintentioned but no exception to this rule. We bring this site out of the early 1990’s with cutting edge practices and a team workflow. This pizza chain goes mobile with location services, audio, video, charting and mapping worthy of any multi-million dollar site. Each chapter examines the way the site works and shows you how to move the existing content and functionality into reusable features.

What you will learn from this book

  • Set up Access and Drupal Behaviors that redirect mobile and desktop browsers to the version of the website most appropriate for your client
  • Share content across sites without resorting to a multi-site install
  • Use context and image styles to create a customized view for the home page
  • Create a mobile-friendly menu
  • Bundle several exercises up into a feature that can push new content to your live site in one fell swoop
  • Create a compelling audio and video experience without using Flash
  • Customize a that will present your site to mobile and desktop clients alike with a unified message

Approach
Follow the fun example of a family pizza restaurant to help you adapt your own website to one that is fullyfunctional in a mobile environment. Each chapter covers a different aspect of mobile development with plenty of step-by-step instructions and screenshots to make things clearer.

Who this book is for
This book is for independent developers who may or may not have had experience with Drupal websites. We take some “deep dives” into customized functionality that will take your Drupal development and your development workflow to the next level.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 338 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184951562X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849515627
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Book Description

Take your skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes.

Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick.

  • Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the line
  • Set up your local environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others
  • Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with , the Drupal
  • Use , the free version control system, and create a GitHub account
  • Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom with Features

Table of Contents
Part I: Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Chapter 1. Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal
Chapter 2. Working on the Line: Some Basic Commands
Chapter 3. Installing
Chapter 4. Getting Started with Version Control

Part II: Using Features and Drush Make to Make Development Easier
Chapter 5. Using Features in Your Workflow
Chapter 6. Making Drupal Easier: Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles

Book Details

  • Paperback: 70 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449305539
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449305536
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Book Description

There’s a wealth of data , but sorting and gathering it by hand can be tedious and time consuming. Rather than click through page after endless page, why not let bots do the work for you?

, , and Screen Scrapers will show you how to create simple programs with / to mine, parse, and archive data to help you make informed decisions. Michael Schrenk, a highly regarded webbot developer, teaches you how to develop fault-tolerant designs, how best to launch and schedule the work of your bots, and how to create Internet agents that:

  • Send email or SMS notifications to alert you to new information quickly
  • Search different data sources and combine the results on one page, making the data easier to interpret and analyze
  • Automate purchases, auction bids, and other online activities to save time

Sample projects for automating tasks like price monitoring and news aggregation will show you how to put the concepts you learn into practice.

This second edition of , , and Screen Scrapers includes tricks for dealing with sites that are resistant to crawling and scraping, writing stealthy webbots that mimic human search behavior, and using regular expressions to harvest specific data. As you discover the possibilities of scraping, you’ll see how webbots can save you precious time and give you much greater control over the data available on the .

Table of Contents
Part I: Fundamental Concepts and Techniques
Chapter 1. What’s in It for You?
Chapter 2. Ideas for Webbot Projects
Chapter 3. Downloading Pages
Chapter 4. Basic Parsing Techniques
Chapter 5. Advanced Parsing with Regular Expressions
Chapter 6. Automating Form Submission
Chapter 7. Managing Large Amounts of Data

Part II: Projects
Chapter 8. Price-Monitoring Webbots
Chapter 9. Image-Capturing Webbots
Chapter 10. Link-Verification Webbots
Chapter 11. Search-Ranking Webbots
Chapter 12. Aggregation Webbots
Chapter 13. FTP Webbots
Chapter 14. Webbots That Read Email
Chapter 15. Webbots That Send Email
Chapter 16. Converting a into a Function

Part III: Advanced Technical Considerations
Chapter 17. Spiders
Chapter 18. Procurement Webbots and Snipers
Chapter 19. Webbots and Cryptography
Chapter 20. Authentication
Chapter 21. Advanced Cookie
Chapter 22. Scheduling Webbots and Spiders
Chapter 23. Scraping Difficult Websites with Browser Macros
Chapter 24. iMacros
Chapter 25. Deployment and Scaling

Part IV: Larger Considerations
Chapter 26. Designing Stealthy Webbots and Spiders
Chapter 27. Proxies
Chapter 28. Writing Fault-Tolerant Webbots
Chapter 29. Designing Webbot-Friendly Websites
Chapter 30. Killing Spiders
Chapter 31. Keeping Webbots out of Trouble

Appendix A. / Reference
Appendix B. Status Codes
Appendix C. SMS Gateways

Book Details

  • Paperback: 392 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press; 2nd Edition (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593273975
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593273972
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Book Description

What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at , the reliable document-oriented . With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant applications with and .

Written by the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen—the company that develops and supports this —this book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and , and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational rut, and take advantage of a high-performing system optimized for operations and scale.

  • Learn step-by-step the tools you need to build applications with MongoDB
  • Perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations, and learn how to perform queries to retrieve data
  • Administer your database, and access and manipulate data with the MongoDB
  • Use functions to work with sets, arrays, and multiple documents to perform synchronous, asynchronous, and atomic operations
  • Discover PHP’s community tools and libraries, and why they’re valuable
  • Work with regular expressions, aggregation, MapReduce, replication, and sharding

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Mongo?
Chapter 2. PHP, MongoDB, and You
Chapter 3. Advanced MongoDB
Chapter 4. PHP Libraries and Tools
Chapter 5. Conclusion

Book Details

  • Paperback: 78 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449314368
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449314361
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Book Description

With this bundle you will master in no time. Three fresh eBooks contain Magazine’s best articles on , carefully prepared, edited and — of course — without advertising. “ Essentials”, “Mastering ” and “ Tutorials” will surely come in handy. All eBooks are available in PDF, EPUB and MobiPocket formats. This bundle really gets your career started.

“WordPress Essentials” eBook (Techniques for Beginners) (164 pages)
If you want to find out how to extend the limitations of WordPress, this eBook for will help you improve your capabilities, so you can take full advantage of its flexibility. Learn how to build WordPress themes that sell, how to interact with the WordPress , create a plugin, integrate with WordPress and use and 5 to produce engaging experience and maintainable code.

“Mastering WordPress” eBook (166 pages)
This eBook explains advanced methods and techniques which go beyond front-end experience and show how to customize back-end for your needs as well. You will learn the definitive guide to WordPress hooks and custom fields, power tips for WordPress template developers, tips for WordPress plugin developers and comprehensive introduction to advanced layout templates.

“WordPress Tutorials” eBook (183 pages)
This eBook is filled with detailed techniques which will show you the step-by-step of various enhancement processes on WordPress publishing. Including tabs into the user interface, adding media elements, applying plug-ins and creating custom meta boxes are a few examples of what the eBook covers. You will learn how to create native admin tables and multisites, build a media site, use bbPress and integrate S3 with WordPress.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 164 + 166 + 183 pages
  • Publisher:  Media GmbH (2011)
  • Language: English
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Book Description

You can use the 7 content system to build a small quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, , social application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your .

7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in .

You’ll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you’ll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar.

The book will then teach you to add to your site so you can sell your products . You’ll add videos and to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers.

The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install and set up Drupal
  • Add blogs to attract customers to your business site
  • Add customer accounts to your site
  • Incorporate e-commerce in your site to sell your products using and the new Commerce modules.
  • Integrate , videos, and e-newsletter with your site which will help you increase your profits
  • Insert online surveys and polls in your site to improve business through customer feedback
  • Take care of and maintain your site.

Approach
This book takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete business website using Drupal and enhancing it to include modern technology used by cutting-edge companies. All instructions are written in such a way that they make sense to readers of any technical level.

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to set up a website quickly for their business using the super powerful Drupal content software.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 378 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849516642
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849516648
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Book Description

The greatest strength of lies in its design which, when employed correctly, allows developers to literally handcraft every aspect of a site, so that it looks and performs exactly how they want it to. While it is reasonably straightforward to download a and install it, doing anything beyond that is not. Using custom themes requires familiarity and experience with ’s theming system, especially if you want to easily administer and maintain your themes.

7 Theming provides a plethora of recipes that enable Drupal template designers to make full use of its extensibility and style their site just the way they want it. It is a well-rounded guide which will allow users to take full advantage of Drupal’s theming system.

This starts with recipes which address the basics of Drupal’s system, including regions and blocks. It then moves on to advanced topics such as creating a custom and using it to modify the layout and style of content. With the introduction of the Field and the growing importance of Views and Panels in Drupal 7, chapters have been dedicated to each feature. You will also learn many techniques for dealing with Drupal’s templating system, which will allow you create themes which surpass even the existing Drupal and contributed modules.

What you will learn from this book

  • Improve your knowledge of the basics of Drupal theming such as installing and enabling a downloaded theme, changing the logo, and adding a slogan
  • Customize the look of your by configuring and extending your existing themes with sub-themes
  • Create custom themes from scratch for websites that demand a fresh look
  • Use the Template theming engine to override output and style it using a theme
  • Style and manipulate the content of your by adding and files via themes and modules
  • Manipulate images on the fly using the Image and the Image
  • Jazz up the design of your site by incorporating elements
  • Design complex site layouts rapidly with Panels

Approach
Part of Packt’s Cookbook series, this book offers solutions to common theme design problems in the form of recipes. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions and screenshots. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can refer to each recipe in no particular order.

Who this book is for
This book is for Drupal developers and administrators who want to refresh the look and feel of their site. We assume that readers are familiar with basic , , and as well as the general use of Drupal.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849516766
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849516761
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Book Description

makes the of blogging easy. But there’s more to a successful than just churning out posts. You need to understand the advanced and promotion techniques to make your stand out from the crowd, attract visitors, benefit your brand, and deliver a worthwhile return on your investment.

3 for Bloggers shows you how to use WordPress to run your business . It covers everything you need to develop a custom look for your , use analytics to understand your visitors, market your , and foster connections with other bloggers to increase your traffic and the value of your .

You begin by identifying your blog’s strategic goals before going step-by-step through the advanced techniques that will grow your blog to its full business potential.

You will learn how to build a custom for your blog and incorporate multimedia content like images and video. Advanced promotion techniques like and social media are covered in detail before you learn how to monetize your blog and manage its growth.

WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers will help you to create a blog that brings real benefits to your business.

What you will learn from this book:

  • Develop a ‘blogging business plan’ – clarify your blogging goals and sketch out a process for achieving them in WordPress
  • Build a custom so that the look of your blog immediately communicates your brand to visitors
  • Engage with the blogosphere and create beneficial relationships with other bloggers, making the most of each other’s traffic and customers
  • Optimize your site for search by incorporating good practices into your blog strategy and content
  • Use social media marketing such as Twitter, , Digg, Reddit, and Delicious to drive traffic to your blog
  • visitors and analyze their activity using WordPress.com stats, Feedburner for your RSS feeds, and Google Analytics
  • Manage adverts and implement revenue-generating features using Google AdSense and affiliate programs
  • Incorporate multimedia on your blog, including video and image galleries

Approach
This is a practical, hands-on book based around a fictitious case study blog, which you will build on a server using WordPress. The case study grows chapter by chapter, from installing your local server, right up to the finished blog.

Who this book is written for
This book is for anybody running or starting a business blog using WordPress, whether you plan to use your blog for and marketing, or want to profit directly from blogging.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 346 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849511322
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849511322
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Book Description

Using the Content Management System, you can create a beautiful, dynamic, and amazing . is a flexible and powerful tool that’s ideal for creating both and non- websites. Are you feeling limited with , or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can’t?

3 focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems so that you can translate your site to one of the best. The author’s experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks – from themes to widgets and from to security.

With this update to the WordPress 2.7 , you will learn many WordPress 3 secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solving a particular problem.

You will learn to install and customize themes, work with plugins, customize content display, enhance interactivity with the user and build communities. Then, the book also teaches you to earn revenue through sales and advertisements. You will also find recipes for and enhancing usability, and the book finally winds up with information on the inevitable maintenance and security.

This book helps you to get solutions to common WordPress problems, to make your site better, smarter, faster, and more secure.

What you will learn from this book:

  • Turn any free WordPress into a powerful and polished premium by changing colors and fonts, inserting your custom logo, and more
  • Learn how plugins and widgets work, and how you can create your own
  • Integrate popular services into your site including Twitter, , and FeedBurner
  • Learn proven techniques to attract more readers and comments
  • Incorporate advertisements into your RSS feed and add a shopping cart to your site
  • Tips and tricks to secure your site and optimize it for SEO

Approach
This is a Packt Cookbook, which means it contains step-by-step instructions to achieve a particular goal or solve a particular problem. There are plenty of screenshots and explained practical tasks to make comprehension quick and easy.

Who this book is written for
This book is not specifically for developers or programmers; rather it can be used by anyone who wants to get more out of their WordPress site by following step-by-step instructions. A basic knowledge of ///WordPress is desirable but not necessary.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849514607
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849514606
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Book Description

Build beautiful interactive maps on your , and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You’ll learn how mapping works in , with examples on how to use intuitive interfaces to map local events, businesses, groups, and other custom data.

Although building maps with can be tricky, this book helps you navigate the system’s complexities for creating sophisticated maps that match your site design. Get the knowledge and tools you need to build useful maps with today.

  • Get up to speed on map projections, the ethics of making maps, and the challenges of building them
  • Learn how spatial data is stored, input by users, manipulated, and queried
  • Use the or modules to display maps with lists, tables, and data feeds
  • Create rich, custom interactions by applying geolocation
  • Customize your map’s look and feel with personalized markers, map tiles, and map popups
  • Build modules that add imaginative and engaging interactions

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Map with Drupal
Chapter 2. Mapping Basics
Chapter 3. Spatial Data
Chapter 4. Displaying Maps
Chapter 5. Extending Map Interactions
Chapter 6. Making Beautiful Maps
Chapter 7. Managing Maps as Features
Chapter 8. Conclusion

Appendix: Further Reading
Appendix: Map Projections
Appendix: Glossary

Book Details

  • Paperback: 148 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449308945
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449308940
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Book Description

Itching to build interesting projects with , but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo designers understand how works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage ’s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a .

In the second of three volumes on design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system’s project and code details.

  • Learn strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
  • Break down a Drupal layout to understand its basic components
  • Understand Drupal’s layer, and what to look for in a base
  • Work with the 960 grid system to facilitate efficient wireframing and theming
  • Manage Drupal markup, including the code generated by the powerful Views
  • Use LessCSS to organize and help you theme your site more efficiently

Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started: Some Stuff to Consider
Chapter 1. Design for Drupal: Basic Concepts
Chapter 2. The Drupal Designer’s Toolkit

Part II: Design and Layout
Chapter 3. Sketch Many, Show One
Chapter 4. Using Style Tiles to Explore Design Ideas
Chapter 5. Design Layout: Covering All Your Bases
Chapter 6. Working with Layout Grids
Chapter 7. Setting up Fireworks Templates for Drupal

Part III: Prototyping, Theming, and Managing your Markup
Chapter 8. Paper Prototyping
Chapter 9. Breaking Down a Layout for Drupal Implementation
Chapter 10. Working with Base Themes
Chapter 11. Prototyping in the Browser
Chapter 12. Practical Example #1: Using Views to Enhance a Layout
Chapter 13. Practical Example #2: Controlling Views Markup
Chapter 14. Managing Your Code: Some Modules that Can Help
Chapter 15. Working with LessCSS

Book Details

  • Paperback: 168 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449305504
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449305505
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Book Description

Learn the secret to building solid and secure services using Framework with this book.

Inside the covers of this book you will find chapters on building services using , -RPC, -RPC, and . Each of the protocols has a chapter dedicated to it. You will first understand the concepts and then be introduced to the practical application of the protocol.

Anyone who as done any programming will know that good start by choosing the right protocol but the work doesn’t end there. In this book you learn how to secure your , how to build ACLs to control access to them, as well as how to build unit tests to test them after each change. In short, this book gives you everything you need to take your existing Framework knowledge and build high quality .

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Zend Framework
Chapter 2. Our Data
Chapter 3.
Chapter 4. Customizing Our SOAP Service
Chapter 5.
Chapter 6. -RPC
Chapter 7. -RPC
Chapter 8. Limiting Access using Zend_Acl
Chapter 9. Performance and Scaling
Chapter 10. Unit Testing
Chapter 11. Security
Chapter 12. End-User Documentation
Chapter 13. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Appendices

Appendix A: Environment Setup
Appendix B: SpecificTools Used
Appendix C: Potential Impact of ZF Moving to 2.0

Book Details

  • Paperback: 244 pages
  • Publisher: Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc. (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0981034551
  • ISBN-13: 978-0981034553
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Book Description

Working with a team of developers is a much different environment than solo . Experienced developers understand the tools and tricks that go into team enterprises, and they implement them on a daily basis. The Playbook covers these tools and practices, providing insight into the process of developing applications, teaching developers the skills they need to be successful in a team environment.

This book, written for beginners and old hands alike, is designed to approach the of applications in a new way. It focuses on the tips and tricks of , not necessarily the particular code snippets that make up a software application. It is designed to be used as a reference guide, rather than as a novel or other technical book. It does not build on itself; each chapter stands alone, though taken together they form a complete understanding of modern in the PHP economy.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Debugging PHP Projects
Chapter 2. Test-Driven Development
Chapter 3. Application
Chapter 4. Improving Performance
Chapter 5. Caching Techniques
Chapter 6. Harnessing Version Control
Chapter 7. Refactoring Strategies
Chapter 8. Worst Practices
Chapter 9. Becoming a Happy Developer

Book Details

  • Paperback: 150 pages
  • Publisher: Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc. (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0981034543
  • ISBN-13: 978-0981034546
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Book Description

Most developers gloss over when they hear “the ” as the term has been appropriated by types and has very little true meaning anymore. In this book, Vito and Ivo strip bare the buzzwords and help developers figure out what the is actually about and how they can take advantage of what computing has to offer. After reading this book, you will not only have a clear picture of what computing is, but you’ll also be able to utilize the various services that are out there.

Topics covered include:

  • Computing primer (characteristics and models)
  • Cloud Basics (prerequisites and programming)
  • Cloud Architecture (horizontal scalability, preventing bottlenecks, abstraction, multi-tenancy)
  • Working with Popular Cloud Infrastructures (, Rackspace, Azure)
  • Working with Popular Cloud Platforms (Google, Rackspace, and others)
  • Working with Popular Cloud Software and Services (OpenID, OAuth, Search, Payments, CRMs, Maps, Storage)

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Cloud Computing Primer
Chapter 3. Cloud Basics
Chapter 4. Cloud Architecture
Chapter 5. Working with Popular Cloud Infrastructures
Chapter 6. Working with Popular Cloud Platforms
Chapter 7. Working with Popular Cloud Software and Services

Book Details

  • Paperback: 172 pages
  • Publisher: Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc. (March 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0981034527
  • ISBN-13: 978-0981034522
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Book Description

With the rise of 2.0, the need for a highly scalable , capable of storing diverse user-generated content is increasing. , an open-source, non-relational has stepped up to meet this demand and is being used in some of the most popular websites in the world. is one of the NoSQL databases which is gaining popularity for developing 2.0 applications.

and Web Beginner’s Guide is a fast-paced, hands-on guide to get started with web application using PHP and MongoDB. The book follows a “Code first, explain later” approach, using practical examples in PHP to demonstrate unique features of MongoDB. It does not overwhelm you with information (or starve you of it), but gives you enough to get a solid practical grasp on the concepts.

The book starts by introducing the underlying concepts of MongoDB. Each chapter contains practical examples in PHP that teache specific features of the database.
The book teaches you to build a blogging application, handle user sessions and authentication, and perform aggregation with MapReduce. You will learn unique MongoDB features and solve interesting problems like real-time analytics, location-aware web apps etc. You will be guided to use MongoDB alongside to build a diverse data back-end.

With its concise coverage of concepts and numerous practical examples, PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide is the right choice for the PHP developer to get started with learning MongoDB.

What you will learn from this book:

  • Get MongoDB up and running on the machine (Windows/Mac/Linux)
  • Build a PHP-powered with MongoDB as the data storage
  • Handle HTTP sessions with MongoDB
  • Store analytics data in real time
  • Process large datasets with MapReduce
  • Use MongoDB to supplement your existing relational database– build data archives, cache tiers, store results of expensive SQL queries in MongoDB
  • Build location-aware web applications
  • Optimize MongoDB for better performance and security

Approach
The book follows a “Code first, explain later” approach, using practical examples in PHP to demonstrate unique features of MongoDB. This book is packed with step-by-step instructions and practical examples, along with challenges to test and improve your knowledge.

Who this book is written for
This book assumes that you are experienced in web application development using PHP, , and . Having working knowledge of using a relational database system such as will help you grasp some of the concepts quicker, but it is not strictly mandatory. No prior knowledge of MongoDB is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 292 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849513627
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849513623
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Book Description

It hasn’t taken developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, -driven sites, and provide a winning open-source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there’s no limit to the powerful, interactive sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and designer Larry Ullman gets right down to : After grounding readers with separate discussions of first the scripting language () and then the database program (), he goes on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications. This guide is indispensable for beginning to intermediate level designers who want to replace their static sites with something dynamic. In this edition, the bulk of the new material covers the latest features and techniques with PHP and MySQL. Also new to this edition are chapters introducing and object-oriented programming techniques.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to PHP
Chapter 2. Programming with PHP
Chapter 3. Creating Dynamic Sites
Chapter 4. Introduction to MySQL
Chapter 5. Introduction to SQL
Chapter 6. Database Design
Chapter 7. Advanced SQL and MySQL
Chapter 8. Error Handling and Debugging
Chapter 9. Using PHP with MySQL
Chapter 10. Common Programming Techniques
Chapter 11. Web Application
Chapter 12. Cookies and Sessions
Chapter 13. Security Methods
Chapter 14. Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions
Chapter 15. Introducing
Chapter 16. An Primer
Chapter 17. Example—Message Board
Chapter 18. Example—User Registration
Chapter 19. Example—
Appendix A. Installation

Book Details

  • Paperback: 696 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press; 4th Edition (September 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321784073
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321784070
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