Web Developer's Cookbook - Softcover

Nixon, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007179431X ISBN 13: 9780071794312

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2012

Synopsis

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 this title

From the Author

When the World Wide Web was first invented by Tim Berners-Lee, simply having a means to create hypertext links to other documents (including ones on remote computers), and to combine text and images using basic formatting, were revolutionary concepts that we take for granted today.

But slowly web developers started getting used to the initial 20 elements provided by HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and began adding more and more features in each new specification of the language. Luckily, though, the people driving this evelopment realized early on that if these extensions to the language were not handled sensibly, they could end up as an unwieldy, tangled web of tags. Thus HTML was created using the Document Object Model (DOM) meaning that all elements of a web page are uniquely addressable from both JavaScript and CSS.

More than that, it's also easy to insert PHP script commands into web pages too, and even integrate them with a database such as MySQL, to provide powerful back-end functionality, and the backbone of the Ajax process of behind-the-scenes communications between a web server and web browser.

In these days of widely varying browser capabilities and screen dimensions, developing code for a widening range of platforms such as iPhones, iPads, Android devices, PCs, Macs, tablets and so on, is more complicated than ever. Thankfully this book is here to help take some of that development off your shoulders, and to save you from "reinventing the wheel" by rewriting commonly-used processes yourself.

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 16 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 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 007179431X
• ISBN 13: 9780071794312
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 992