Widely praised for its in–depth coverage of Drupal internals, bestselling Pro Drupal Development has been completely updated for Drupal 6 in this latest edition, and there are even more tricks of the trade to help you further yourself as a professional Drupal developer. Assuming you already know how to install and bring a standard in[Read More]

Build powerful, interactive plug-ins for your blog and to share online Everything you need to create and distribute your own plug-ins following WordPress coding standards Walk through the development of six complete, feature-rich, real-world plug-ins that are being used by thousands of WP users Written by Vladimir Prelovac, WordPress expert a[Read More]

This is the Official Guide on the award-winning SilverStripe programming framework, authored by the creators of the open source CMS.  SilverStripe is a robust and flexible website content management system (CMS) tightly integrated with an application framework.  It is open source and embraces modern system architecture and agile developmen[Read More]

You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release management. But Rails is more than a set of best pr[Read More]

Easy and effective team work using MVC, agile development, source control, testing, bug tracking, and more Work more effectively as a team by breaking up complex PHP projects into manageable sub-parts Develop code that is much easier to maintain with source control, agile principles, and project trackingApply techniques related to process models,[Read More]

A practical and concise book that teaches XML from the ground up. This tutorial style presents various XML methodologies and techniques in an easy to understand way, building a basis for further exploration. XML is essentially an enabling technology, dry and boring on its own. As a result, most books on the market are dry, and academic in natur[Read More]

PHP and MySQL have become a serious and commercially viable system with which to develop web applications. With the relase of PHP 5, J2EE developers, in particular, are starting to take a second look at PHP. And while there are many books on the makret that describe PHP language syntax, there are very few that fully describe web application dev[Read More]

Learn to create Web pages quickly and easily with PHP—no prior programming experience required! PHP 6 Fast & Easy Web Development provides a step-by-step, learn-by-example path to learning through easy-to-understand language and illustrations. Unlike the verbose text-only chapters found in most programming books, the Fast & Easy Web Development s[Read More]

Improve your PHP coding productivity with the free compact open-source MVC CodeIgniter framework! Clear, structured tutorial on working with CodeIgniter Careful explanation of the basic concepts of CodeIgniter and its MVC architecture Using CodeIgniter with databases, HTML forms, files, images, sessions, and email Building a dynamic website quic[Read More]

Pro Drupal Development is strongly recommended for any PHP programmer who wants a truly in-depth look at how Drupal works and how to make the most of it. — Michael J. Ross, Web developer/Slashdot contributor Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in use today. With it, you can create a vari[Read More]