{"id":75,"date":"2006-04-05T14:32:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2006-06-06T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T15:58:02","slug":"php-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/php-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: PHP Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHP Hacks is essentially a collection of &#8216;bite-size&#8217; PHP scripts that you can easily drop into your websites. <\/p>\n<p>Besides being able to use the hacks straight away in your projects, the PHP code\/hacks are clearly explained making them good tutorials for learning how you might do something in PHP.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0596101392&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SOME TOPICS\/HACKS THAT STAND OUT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a shopping cart.<\/li>\n<li>Using AJAX with JSON &#8211; a php library that makes working with AJAX easy.<\/li>\n<li>PEAR hacks like Net-Geo to find out state and city locations of people.<\/li>\n<li>A good examination of PHP design patterns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not exactly for beginners, but if you have an understanding of basic PHP you will be OK and you will learn a lot. This book is also good for programmers (from other languages) who want to get a good idea of what tools, libraries are available in the PHP world.<\/p>\n<p>Another good book from O&#8217;reilly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHP Hacks is essentially a collection of &#8216;bite-size&#8217; PHP scripts that you can easily drop into your websites. Besides being able to use them straight away in your projects, the PHP code\/hacks are clearly explained making them good tutorials for learning how you might do something in PHP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}