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 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.

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