
Product Description
As the usage of PHP grows, the need for a globally-recognized redentials program for professional developers is becoming more and more important. The Zend Engineer Certification Program, launched by worldwide PHP leader Zend Technologies, finally creates a professional designation that represents consistently high-quality skills and knowledge in the PHP world. Written and edited by four members of the Zend Education Board who also helped create the actual Zend Certification Exam, this book contains 200 questions on every topic that is part of the exam.
The Zend Certification Practice Test Book is an invaluable resource in testing your preparedness in every area of the exam, from the basics to the most advanced topics. Each question comes with a clear answer that provides an explanation of the question's topic, its goals and end result. Answering the questions in this book will allow you to clearly and quickly identify the areas of PHP in which you are strong and those in which you need further study before being able to pass the exam! Zend Technologies, Inc. is the PHP company. Founded by the creators and ongoing innovators of PHP, it is the developer of the Zend Engine, the heart of PHP. Zend focuses on enterprise-class products and services that enable organizations to develop, deploy and manage business-critical PHP applications.
NanoBooks are excellent, in-depth resources created by the publishers of php|architect, the world's premier magazine dedicated to PHP professionals. NanoBooks focus on delivering high-quality content with in-depth analysis and expertise, centered around a single, well-defined topic and without any of the fluff of larger, more expensive books.
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Product DescriptionCakePHP is a leading PHP–based web app development framework. When asking a question on forums or chat rooms, many CakePHP beginners get little help from the experts. Simple questions can get a response like, “Well, just read the online manual and API.” Unfortunately, the online manual is depreciated, and who wants to absorb a programming language or framework from an API? Beginning CakePHP will do the following:
- Leads you from a basic setup of CakePHP to building a couple applications that will highlight CakePHP’s functionality and capabilities without delving too deeply into the PHP language, but rather what the CakePHP framework can offer the developer.
- Teaches you to use CakePHP by incorporating advanced features into your web development projects.
- Targets beginners of CakePHP or web frameworks in general as well as experienced developers with limited exposure to CakePHP. A secondary audience may include developers undecided on adopting CakePHP or business managers trying to assess the value of incorporating CakePHP into their toolbox.
What you’ll learn
- Install and configure the CakePHP web framework.
- Create your first CakePHP web application: to–do lists.
- Progress by building a more complex blogging application.
- Incorporate Ajax and Web 2.0 principles and techniques into your blogging and other CakePHP applications.
- Apply these sample applications along with advanced techniques as a framework or template for building your own web applications with CakePHP going forward.
Who is this book for?
This book will speak to an audience of developers already familiar with PHP but who may not be PHP experts. This book is tailored for those new to CakePHP and who want a thorough tutorial.
About the Apress Beginning Series
The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!
Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional
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A step-by-step introduction to rapid web development using the open-source MVC CakePHP framework. If you already know PHP and want to develop cutting-edge Web 2.0 applications, or see how to write code in a faster, more productive way, then this book is ideal for you.
The book is directed at CakePHP newbies, and consists of three parts: introduction and first steps, explanation of the basic concepts, and building a real application.
The first part starts with a high-level introduction to CakePHP and MVC. Next follows a chapter about the installation. My impression of that chapter is mixed: on the one hand it explains in detail how to download CakePHP (including four screenshots *g*), on the other hand the chapter ends with CakePHP’s start screen showing a notice (”Please change the value of Security.salt…”) and that database.php is not available. Even though both issues are covered later in the book, it would make sense to address them in the installation chapter. Or maybe it should be merged with the next chapter, which is about building the first application (a simple to-do-list application). It’s a good decision of the authors to bake this first application manually (i.e. without scaffolding and the bake script).
The second part covers the basic concepts of CakePHP: controllers including components (see sample chapter), models, and views (including layouts, elements, and helpers). Plus the bake script. For some reason model behaviors and plugins are not covered…
Especially with the model chapters you have to be careful, because some information is already outdated (the authors used CakePHP 1.2 beta and release candidate 1 (RC1)). For example, the methods generateList() and execute() no longer exist in the current RC2, and in conditions you now have to use:
What I didn’t like is the chapter about bake. I think bake is quite self-explanatory and hence it is not necessary to explain each step. The respective pages would have been better used to describe how to write your own shell scripts…
In the third part a Q&A (Questions & Answers) application is built from scratch. It starts with applying of what has been learned in the first two parts. Then follow two chapters dedicated to user authentication and AJAX, respectively. And finally there is a chapter covering pagination and RSS feeds, among other things.
What I liked about the book is the example-driven approach and how the book is structured. Throughout the book the same pattern is used: First comes a short introduction describing what will be done in the respective section. Then follows a “Time for Action”, a step-by-step guide of what has to be done. And last, but not least, comes a “What Just Happened?” part with explanations of what was done during the “Time for Action”.
What I didn’t like is the formatting of the code snippets: the indentation of the code looks rather randomly. Another distracting thing is that the proofreader was not very good in catching typos ;-)
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