| Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 delves into some of the most popular open source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL 8 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. You'll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. This is an ideal read if you are a web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice who wants to create applications with PHP 5 and PostgreSQL 8.
With over 22 million installations worldwide1, PHP ranks among the most popular languages on the planet. Sporting an amazingly active community and an ever-improving array of capabilities, PHP’s future is perhaps brighter than ever despite recently celebrating its 10th birthday. PostgreSQL’s prospects are equally dazzling, with the version 8 release expanding its already impressive feature set and giving a whole new group of users the opportunity to become familiar with the project through the introduction of a native Windows port. Used together, PHP and PostgreSQL offer users an impressive platform for building high-powered Web applications. This book shows you how.
Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional helps you sort the substantive from the superfluous to begin creating PHP- and PostgreSQL-driven Web applications as quickly as possible. Based on the structure and material found in the bestselling title Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, now in its second edition (W. Jason Gilmore, Apress, 2006), both novice and seasoned PHP and PostgreSQL users alike will appreciate the comprehensive tutorial and reference hybrid format. You have traded hard-earned cash for this book, and therefore it only makes sense to the authors to present the material in a fashion that will prove useful not only the first few times you peruse it, but far into the future.
About the Authors
W. JASON GILMORE has developed countless PHP applications over the past seven years, and has dozens of articles to his credit on this and other topics pertinent to Internet application development. He has had articles featured in, among others, Linux Magazine and Developer.com, and adopted for use within United Nations and Ford Foundation educational programs. Jason is the author of three books, including most recently the best-selling Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, now in its second edition. These days Jason splits his time between running Apress’s Open Source program, experimenting with spatially enabled Web applications, and starting more home remodeling projects than he could possibly complete. Contact Jason at jason@wjgilmore.com and be sure to visit his Web site at http://www.
ROBERT H. TREAT is a long time open source user, developer, and advocate. He has worked with a number of projects but his favorite is certainly PostgreSQL. His current involvement includes helping maintain the postgresql.org Web sites, working on phpPgAdmin, and contributing to the PostgreSQL core whenever he can. He has contributed several articles to the PostgreSQL “techdocs” site, presented multiple times at OSCon, worked as the PHP Foundry Admin on SourceForge.net, and has been recognized as a Major Developer for his work within the PostgreSQL community. Outside of the free software world, Robert enjoys spending time with his children, Robert, Dylan, and Emma, and his wife, Amber. |
