Although PHP is not a real Multimedia Programming language, the articles in this issue proved that it can be used fine to handle Multimedia problems. This book also focuses on Multimedia, and more specifically on PDF, Flash and Image manipulation. Most PHP books starts with an …

In PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, authors Allan Kent and David Powers talk not only about Dreamweaver MX 2004 (DMX), but also discuss many of the common aspects of working in the PHP environment, including MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Apache, CSS and XHTML, best practices, …

This book intends to simplify programming tasks through the use of add-on modules and packages. The intended audience is intermediate-to-advanced, although I believe it is also of great use to the uninitiated. The Introduction provides a solid introduction to the use of PEAR and the command …

In this book author David Wall shows us how to create a PHP application based specifically on a multi-tier architecture and design. The question is: does it live up to the claims?OVERVIEWAt this point in PHP’s dynamic evolution there is a new buzzword doing the rounds: …

Why would anyone want to buy a book that is essentially available for free over the Internet? This is the question I found myself coming back to as I looked through the book, but firstly, let's look at the book's contents. I looked hard, and there …

It certainly took its time, but now it's out: a PHP book from the famous “Programming” series by O'Reilly. O'Reilly has a tradition of letting only creators or core developers of a language write books for this series. With “Programming PHP” Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of …

I was looking forward to receiving this book for my first review, I mean, wow… free book! Imagine my disappointment when a surprisingly slim package falls through my letterbox. The book is a mere 480 pages long, that’s very little for US compared to some of …

There have been several attempts to document the use of Linux as a desktop, and most have been less-than-stellar for folks making the switch. When I learned that O'Reilly was going to cover Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora, I was interested as they have a history …