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- Clear step-by-step instructions with lots of practical examples
- Develop cutting-edge PHP applications like never before with the help of this popular IDE, through quick and simple techniques
- Experience exciting features of PHP application development with real-life PHP projects
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 302 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : August 2012
ISBN : 1849515808
ISBN 13 : 9781849515801
Author(s) : M A Hossain Tonu
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Beginner's Guides, Open Source, PHP
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: Setting up your Development Environment
Chapter 2: Boosting Your Coding Productivity with the PHP Editor
Chapter 3: Building a Facebook-like Status Poster using NetBeans
Chapter 4: Debugging and Testing using NetBeans
Chapter 5: Using Code Documentation
Chapter 6: Understanding Git, the NetBeans Way
Chapter 7: Building User Registration, Login, and Logout
Appendix A: Introducing Symfony2 Support in NetBeans 7.2
Appendix B: NetBeans Keyboard Shortcuts
Appendix C: Pop Quiz Answers
Index
- Chapter 1: Setting up your Development Environment
- Why NetBeans for PHP application development?
- Recommended system requirements
- Downloading the NetBeans IDE
- Time for action – downloading the NetBeans IDE
- Installing NetBeans
- Time for action – installing NetBeans step by step
- Setting up your development environment in Windows
- Time for action – installing XAMPP in Windows
- Setting up your development environment in the Ubuntu desktop
- Time for action – installing LAMP on the Ubuntu desktop
- Setting up your development environment in Mac OS X
- Time for action – installing MAMP in Mac OS X
- Creating a NetBeans PHP project
- Time for action – creating a NetBeans PHP project
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Boosting Your Coding Productivity with the PHP Editor
- Familiarizing yourself with the base IDE features
- Exploring the editor for PHP
- Exploring more with the editor
- Using rename refactoring and instant rename
- Using code completion
- Using the code generator
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Building a Facebook-like Status Poster using NetBeans
- Planning the project
- Understanding JSON – JavaScript Object Notation
- Introducing jQuery – the definitive JavaScript library
- Understanding AJAX – asynchronous JavaScript and XML
- Introducing jQuery.ajax()
- Introducing PHP Data Objects (PDO)
- Creating the NetBeans PHP project
- Creating the status stream display list
- Setting up the database server
- Time for action – connecting with MySQL database server
- Creating the database and table
- Time for action – creating MySQL database and table
- Inserting sample rows into the table
- Adding sample user image files
- Creating the StatusPoster PHP class
- Time for action – creating a class, adding a constructor, and creating methods
- Firing the user interface for displaying the status list
- Time for action – adding CSS support to the document
- Time for action – adding jQuery support and custom JS library
- Time for action – showing the status list
- Hatching out the status poster using PHP-AJAX
- Time for action – adding the status input box to the interface
- Adding new status post template to index.php
- Creating the AJAX status poster
- Time for action – creating status poster using JQuery AJAX
- Working with StatusPoster.php again
- Adding AJAX responder code to index.php
- Testing the usability of the status poster
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Debugging and Testing using NetBeans
- Debugging – the ancient art of programming
- Debugging PHP source code with XDebug
- Configuring XDebug
- Time for action – installing XDebug on Windows
- Enabling XDebug on Ubuntu
- Time for action – installing XDebug on Ubuntu
- Enabling XDebug on Mac OS X
- Debugging the PHP source with NetBeans
- The debugger windows
- Basic debugging workflow
- Time for action – running a debugging session
- Adding Watches
- Time for action – adding the expression to watch
- Testing with PHPUnit
- Configuring PHPUnit
- Time for action – installing PHPUnit via PEAR
- Creating and running PHPUnit tests
- Time for action – testing with PHPUnit
- Dealing with code coverage with PHPUnit
- Time for action – using code coverage
- Testing using the Selenium framework
- Time for action – running tests with Selenium
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Using Code Documentation
- Writing great documentation
- PHPDoc – commenting standard for PHP
- Example of a DocBlock
- Acquainting with PHPDoc tags
- Data type tags
- Legal tags
- Versioning tags
- Other tags
- Documenting the source code
- Documenting the functions and methods
- Time for action – documenting a PHP function or method
- Documenting classes
- Time for action – documenting the PHP class and class variables
- Documenting TODO tasks
- Time for action – using @todo tags
- Documenting the API
- Configuring ApiGen
- Time for action – installing ApiGen and configuring it with NetBeans
- Generating API documentation
- Time for action – generating documentation using ApiGen
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Understanding Git, the NetBeans Way
- Version control system
- Distributed version control
- Git – the fast and distributed version control system
- Understanding Git, the NetBeans way
- Initializing a Git repository
- Time for action – initializing a Git repository
- Cloning a Git repository
- Time for action – cloning a Git repository from GitHub via the SSH protocol
- Staging files to a Git repository
- Time for action – staging files to a Git repository
- Viewing changes in the source editor
- Git window
- Committing changes to the repository
- Time for action – committing changes to the local repository
- Comparing file revisions
- Time for action – using diff from the IDE
- Reverting the local changes of the repository
- Time for action – reverting changes of the working tree
- Working with remote repositories
- Fetching source code updates
- Time for action – fetching source code updates
- Pulling updates from the remote repository
- Time for action – pulling updates from the remote repository
- Pushing source code changes to a remote repository
- Time for action – pushing source code changes
- Working with branches
- Creating a branch
- Time for action – creating a branch
- Checking out a branch
- Time for action – checking out a branch
- Switching to a branch
- Checking out files
- Merging
- Time for action – merging into current branch
- Deleting a branch
- Good practices and workflow
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Building User Registration, Login, and Logout
- Planning the project
- Understanding the application architecture
- Understanding the DAO pattern
- Reviewing OOP issues
- Namespace
- The API
- Designing the database
- Creating the data access layer
- Creating the BaseDao abstract class
- Time for action – creating the BaseDao class
- Creating the User DAO class
- Time for action – creating the User Dao class
- Creating the Service layer
- Creating the ValidatorService class
- Time for action – creating the ValidatorService class
- Creating the UserService class
- Time for action – creating the UserService class
- Building the application
- Time for action – creating the user application
- Creating the user interface
- Time for action – creating the user interface
- Summary
- Appendix A: Introducing Symfony2 Support in NetBeans 7.2
- Downloading and integrating the latest Symfony Standard Edition
- Time for action – integrating Symfony2 with NetBeans
- Creating a new Symfony2 project
- Time for action – creating a Symfony2 project using NetBeans
- Running Symfony2 console commands inside NetBeans
- Creating a bundle
- Time for action – creating a bundle using the Symfony2 console command
- Appendix B: NetBeans Keyboard Shortcuts
- File menu
- Edit menu
- View menu
- Navigate menu
- Source menu
- Refactor menu
- Run menu
- Debug menu
- Window menu
- Scrolling and selecting
- Modifying text
- Code folding
- Searching for text
- Setting tabs
- Appendix C: Pop Quiz Answers
- Chapter 2, Boosting your Coding Productivity with the PHP Editor
- Chapter 3, Building a Facebook-like Status Poster using NetBeans
- Chapter 4, Debugging and Testing using NetBeans
- Chapter 5, Using Code Documentation
- Chapter 6, Understanding Git, the NetBeans way
M A Hossain Tonu
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- 1 submitted: last submission 12 Feb 2013Errata type: Code | Page number: 78
In the Inserting sample rows into the table section, the INSERT statement uses an empty string ('') as the value of an auto-incrementing id field. This does not work. It should be null instead.
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