Best practices and expert techniques for today’s most demanding apps
As the world’s most popular, general purpose, open source scripting language, PHP is frequently used with MySQL to create high-traffic, mission-critical applications. This indispensable book shares proven, author-tested best practices and expert techniques that can be applied to even the most demanding MySQL-driven PHP apps. You’ll explore ways to extend MySQL with user-defined functions, write PHP extensions, and solve problems when PHP and MySQL alone are not enough and other techniques or third-party tools are necessary.
Expert PHP and MySQL:
- Reviews essential techniques, such as design patterns, complex queries, and advanced regular expression
- Addresses advanced PHP concepts, such as iterators and closures
- Demonstrates using Gearman for multitasking in your web applications
- Discusses caching using memcached with MySQL and your PHP web applications
- Discusses ways to create PHP Extensions and MySQL User Defined Functions
- Shows how to use Sphinx for search functionality in your PHP web applications
About the Author
Andrew Curioso is a senior software engineer at MyVBO (Virtual Business Office) creating an innovative and scalable infrastructure for Rich Internet Applications using PHP and MySQL.
Ronald Bradford is a technology strategist and advisor specializing in MySQL, Drizzle and related web technologies. With a primary focus on architecture, design, performance analysis and scalability of web applications, his consulting portfolio ranges from Internet startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Patrick Galbraith is a principal software engineer at Lycos, adding new PHP and MySQL offerings for Tripod Users, switching remaining apps using Oracle to MySQL as well as other interesting projects.
Book Details
- Paperback: 624 pages
- Publisher: Wrox (March 29, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470563125
- ISBN-13: 978-0470563120
- File Size: 13.0 MiB
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