HTTP Pocket Reference or CakePHP Application Development

HTTP Pocket Reference

Author: Clinton Wong

The HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the backbone of the World Wide Web. HTTP is the language that each Web browser (or other Web client) uses to communicate with servers around the world. All Web programmers, administrators, and application developers need to be familiar with HTTP in order to work effectively.

The HTTP Pocket Reference not only provides a solid conceptual foundation of HTTP, it also serves as a quick reference to each of the headers and status codes that compose an HTTP transaction. The book starts with a tutorial of HTTP, but then explains the client request and server responses in more detail, and gives a thorough technical explanation of more advanced features of HTTP (such as persistent connections and caching).

Most people use the Web every day without knowing anything about HTTP, but if you need to get "beyond the browser," this book is the place to start.

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CakePHP Application Development

Author: Anupom Syam

This step-by-step introduction to rapid web development with open-source MVC framework CakePHP teaches PHP programmers to rapidly develop and deploy well-crafted, robust web-based applications. If you know PHP and want to develop cutting-edge Web 2.0 applications, or code in a faster more productive way, this book is ideal for you. The Cake rapid-development framework for PHP uses well-known design patterns and provides a structured framework enabling PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss of flexibility. This book starts by installing Cake, setting up a CakePHP development and deployment environment, and building a first application, then covers each main component of a CakePHP application in detail, before showing how to build Web 2.0 style applications quickly using a case study application. It is packed with example code and demo applications, showing in action all of the techniques to write a complete, non-trivial application in PHP.