In Detail Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for building blogs and other websites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the Internet), Hillary Clinton, and many others utilize Drupal to fulfil their online requirements. Drupal is an elegantly[Read More]

In Detail Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System (CMS). Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website. Drupal employs a specialized templating system and supports themes, which allow you to change the look and feel [Read More]

A university's halls of residence keep track of their data through a combination of disparate spreadsheets and carbon-paper, with no provision for historic analysis. While it is clear that a fully computer based system would provide an adequate solution to the problem, there are several factors that must be taken into account before a system can b[Read More]

In PHP with MySQL Beyond the Basics, expert instructor Kevin Skoglund introduces powerful PHP programming techniques using object-oriented programming (OOP). Both novice and experienced PHP developers will benefit from the efficient, well-organized, reusable, and easy-to-understand code that OOP offers. Kevin shows how OOP techniques can streamline[Read More]

The only book to address using cache to enhance and speed up Web application development Developers use Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl to build dynamic Web sites that store information within the MySQL database; this is the only book to address using these technologies together to alleviate the database load in Web development [Read More]

Enhance your PHP applications by increasing their responsiveness through jQuery and its plugins. Combine client-side jQuery with your server-side PHP to make your applications more efficient and exciting for the clientLearn about some of the most popular jQuery plugins and methodsCreate powerful and responsive user interfaces for your PHP applica[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]

If you do systems administration work of any kind, you have to deal with the growing complexity of your environment and increasing demands on your time. Automating System Administration with Perl, Second Edition, not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach specific problems and to securely automate r[Read More]

Building E-Commerce Web Sites with PHP and MySQL walks a reader through setting up an e-commerce Web site. Everything is covered icluding:  designing the visual interface, creating the database, generating an online catalog, managing the shopping cart, handling the order and the payment process, and fulfilling the order. Because of the nature of t[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]