An Introduction to PHP for Scientists and Engineers: Beyond JavaScript - Softcover

Brooks, David R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184800236X ISBN 13: 9781848002364

Publisher: Springer, 2008

Synopsis

This book provides an introduction to PHP and server-side programming. It presents readers with a science or engineering background with the information to write their own online science and engineering applications.

About this title

From the Back Cover

PHP, originally created in 1994 as a ‘Personal Home Page’ tool, is a server-side programming language that can be used to solve numerous computing problems that a client-side language like JavaScript cannot.

This highly useful text/reference presents key information needed to write your own online science and engineering applications, including reading, creating and manipulating data files stored as text on a server, thereby overcoming the limitations of a client-side language. This book focuses on those elements of the language - such as file input/output, arrays, built-in math functions, and user-created functions - that are essential for solving a wide range of scientific/engineering computing problems. It assumes a working knowledge of HTML, programming concepts, and JavaScript, C or a similar language.

Features:

· Offers a working knowledge of PHP, essential for server-side programming

· Includes detailed code examples to guide the reader

· Contains several complete applications that show how to take advantage of server-side programming capabilities

· Extremely accessible, and ideal for self-study

· Provides an author-supported supplementary website containing code examples (www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/BookCode/PHPBookCode.htm)

· Directly addresses the needs of engineers, scientists and working professionals by explaining precisely those components of PHP required

This concise applications-oriented text is an exceptional shortcut to learning the essentials of PHP and is ideal for self-study or course use.

Dr. Brooks has authored several successful Springer titles, including: Problem Solving with Fortran 90 for Scientists and Engineers; C Programming: The Essentials for Engineers and Scientists; and An Introduction to HTML and JavaScript for Scientists and Engineers.

Review

From the reviews:

"This book on PHP for scientists and engineers is a slim volume--only 141 pages, including the index at the end. PHP texts usually focus on e-commerce applications, such as shopping carts, document generation, and Web services. ... quite suitable for handling problems in scientific or engineering data management and doing smaller scale calculations on this data. ... A set of programming exercises is provided at the end of the book." (Anthony J. Duben, ACM Computing Reviews, April, 2009)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 184800236X
• ISBN 13: 9781848002364
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 153