Why this book will save you development time
The Web Developers Cookbook offers a comprehensive suite of over 300 ready-to-use solutions for PHP, JavaScript, and CSS - the most commonly used and most versatile open-source languages currently used for Web development.
This easy-to-use hands-on guide assumes only a basic acquaintance with each of the technologies covered, with all examples in the book being extensively documented and explained, so that even novice developers will be able to understand, use, and learn from them.
This practical resource contains more than 300 recipe-like examples, each with accompanying screenshots, tables of the variables, functions, arrays and classes used, and extensive explanations of how they work, and implementing them in your own web pages is simplicity itself.
What you get
- More than 300 ready-to-use, cross-referenced recipes that provide instant, dynamic solutions for Web developers--styles, text effects, forms and validation, security, animation, audio and visual effects, and much more
- Examples that are fully tested and up to date with the latest features
- Explanations for every part of each recipe in detail, accompanied by graphics, figures, tables and program listings
- Downloadable files to quickly add the ready-made code snippets to your projects, saving hours of development and debugging time
- Free time to spend developing the creative code that interests you, and not reinventing the wheel - making this book the ultimate time-saver for all Web developers
The PHP recipes include functions for:
- Managing text processing
- Image handling
- Content management
- Processing forms and user input
- Interacting with the Internet
- Providing chat, messaging and bulletin boards
- Using MySQL, authentication and cookies
- Integrating with third party services
- Incorporating JavaScript
- Supporting diverse dolutions
The JavaScript recipes include functions for:
- Handling basic functionality
- Changing location and dimensions of objects
- Controlling object visibility
- Creating movement and animation
- Implementing chaining and interaction
- Building menus and managing navigation
- Displaying text effects
- Embedding audio and visual effects
- Manipulating cookies, using Ajax, and managing security
- Processing forms and input validation
- Providing solutions to Common Problems
The CSS recipes include classes for:
- Manipulating objects
- Controlling text and typography
- Menus and navigation
- Handling page layout
- Creating visual effects
- Displayng text and typography
- Interacting with users
- Incorporating JavaScript
- Building superclasses
About the Author
Robin Nixon has been a writer for 30 years, producing in excess of 500 articles for many of the UK's top magazines, and has authored over 15 books. He started his writing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of their residential homes, evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology, and writing supporting documentation and articles for a selection of national publications.
After this Robin joined a large magazine publisher, where he held a variety of different editorial positions, before leaving to become a self-employed writer, and later branching out into developing websites (including the world's first licensed Internet radio station). In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.
Robin and his family have relocated to the USA twice, once to run a web design company in California, and then again to set up an English Tearoom in Texas. In between times they ran several successful pubs, bed and breakfasts and nightclubs in England. But in recent years Robin has returned to writing, focusing on motivation and personal improvement, while still continuing to produce his popular series of books on computing, many of which have now been translated into multiple languages.
Robin lives on the south-east coast of England (where he writes full time), along with his five children and wife Julie (a trained nurse and university lecturer) - between them they also foster three disabled children.
