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Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage Drupal’s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme.

In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system’s project and code management details.

• Learn strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
• Break down a Drupal layout to understand its basic components
• Understand Drupal’s theme layer, and what to look for in a base theme
• Work with the 960 grid system to facilitate efficient wireframing and theming
• Manage Drupal markup, including the code generated by the powerful Views module
• Use LessCSS to organize CSS and help you theme your site more efficiently

Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started: Some Stuff to Consider
Chapter 1. Design for Drupal: Basic Concepts
Chapter 2. The Drupal Designer’s Toolkit Download Now »

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Learn the secret to building solid and secure web services using Zend Framework with this book.

Inside the covers of this book you will find chapters on building web services using SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, and REST. Each of the protocols has a chapter dedicated to it. You will first understand the concepts and then be introduced to the practical application of the protocol.

Anyone who as done any programming will know that good web services start by choosing the right protocol but the work doesn’t end there. In this book you learn how to secure your web services, how to build ACLs to control access to them, as well as how to build unit tests to test them after each change. In short, this book gives you everything you need to take your existing Zend Framework knowledge and build high quality web services.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Zend Framework
Chapter 2. Our Data
Chapter 3. SOAP
Chapter 4. Customizing Our SOAP Service
Chapter 5. REST
Chapter 6. XML-RPC
Chapter 7. JSON-RPC
Chapter 8. Limiting Access using Zend_Acl Download Now »

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Working with a team of developers is a much different environment than solo development. Experienced developers understand the tools and tricks that go into team development enterprises, and they implement them on a daily basis. The PHP Playbook covers these tools and practices, providing insight into the process of developing PHP applications, teaching developers the skills they need to be successful in a team environment.

This book, written for beginners and old hands alike, is designed to approach the development of PHP applications in a new way. It focuses on the tips and tricks of development, not necessarily the particular code snippets that make up a software application. It is designed to be used as a reference guide, rather than as a novel or other technical book. It does not build on itself; each chapter stands alone, though taken together they form a complete understanding of modern development in the PHP economy.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Debugging PHP Projects
Chapter 2. Test-Driven Development
Chapter 3. Application Optimization
Chapter 4. Improving Performance
Chapter 5. Caching Techniques
Chapter 6. Harnessing Version Control
Chapter 7. Refactoring Strategies Download Now »

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Most developers gloss over when they hear “the cloud” as the term has been appropriated by marketing types and has very little true meaning anymore. In this book, Vito and Ivo strip bare the buzzwords and help PHP developers figure out what the cloud is actually about and how they can take advantage of what cloud computing has to offer. After reading this book, you will not only have a clear picture of what cloud computing is, but you’ll also be able to utilize the various cloud services that are out there.

Topics covered include:

• Cloud Computing primer (characteristics and models)
• Cloud Basics (prerequisites and programming)
• Cloud Architecture (horizontal scalability, preventing bottlenecks, abstraction, multi-tenancy)
• Working with Popular Cloud Infrastructures (Amazon, Rackspace, Azure)
• Working with Popular Cloud Platforms (Google, Rackspace, and others)
• Working with Popular Cloud Software and Services (OpenID, OAuth, Search, Payments, CRMs, Maps, Storage)

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Cloud Computing Primer
Chapter 3. Cloud Basics
Chapter 4. Cloud Architecture Download Now »

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With the rise of Web 2.0, the need for a highly scalable database, capable of storing diverse user-generated content is increasing. MongoDB, an open-source, non-relational database has stepped up to meet this demand and is being used in some of the most popular websites in the world. MongoDB is one of the NoSQL databases which is gaining popularity for developing PHP Web 2.0 applications.

PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide is a fast-paced, hands-on guide to get started with web application development using PHP and MongoDB. The book follows a “Code first, explain later” approach, using practical examples in PHP to demonstrate unique features of MongoDB. It does not overwhelm you with information (or starve you of it), but gives you enough to get a solid practical grasp on the concepts.

The book starts by introducing the underlying concepts of MongoDB. Each chapter contains practical examples in PHP that teache specific features of the database.
The book teaches you to build a blogging application, handle user sessions and authentication, and perform aggregation with MapReduce. You will learn unique MongoDB features and solve interesting problems like real-time analytics, location-aware web apps etc. You will be guided to use MongoDB alongside MySQL to build a diverse data back-end.

With its concise coverage of concepts and numerous practical examples, PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide is the right choice for the PHP developer to get started with learning MongoDB. Download Now »

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It hasn’t taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open-source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there’s no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business: After grounding readers with separate discussions of first the scripting language (PHP) and then the database program (MySQL), he goes on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional Web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications. This guide is indispensable for beginning to intermediate level Web designers who want to replace their static sites with something dynamic. In this edition, the bulk of the new material covers the latest features and techniques with PHP and MySQL. Also new to this edition are chapters introducing jQuery and object-oriented programming techniques.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to PHP
Chapter 2. Programming with PHP
Chapter 3. Creating Dynamic Web Sites
Chapter 4. Introduction to MySQL Download Now »