Web Programming for Business: PHP Object-Oriented Programming with Oracle focuses on fundamental PHP coding, giving students practical, enduring skills to solve data and technical problems in business.
Using Oracle as the backend database, the book is version-neutral, teaching students code that will still work even with changes to PHP and Oracle. The code is clean, clearly explained and solutions-oriented, allowing students to understand how technologies such as XML, RSS or AJAX can be leveraged in business applications. The book is fully illustrated with examples, and includes chapters on:
- – Database functionality
- – Security programming
- – Transformation programming to move data
Powerpoint slides, applied exam questions, and the raw code for all examples are available on a companion website. This book offers an innovative approach that allows anyone with basic SQL and HTML skills to learn PHP object-oriented programming.
I find the transformation programming topics in this book very unique. Using XML to store and retrieve data is explained wonderfully in this book. Another thing that makes this book stand out from the rest is use of Oracle database, contrary to most books out there that chose MySQL database. The companion website is amazing, you can save a lot of time by reusing the code and supporting files from the resources section of the website. It’s a great book, I like the way it’s crafted and the way it crafts you to program for business needs.