Web Developer's Cookbook ─ More Than 300 Ready-made Php, Javascript, and Css Recipes

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

When the World Wide Web was first invented by Tim Berners-Lee, simply having a means to create hypertext links to other documents (including ones on remote computers), and to combine text and images using basic formatting, were revolutionary concepts that we take for granted today.But slowly web developers started getting used to the initial 20 elements provided by HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and began adding more and more features in each new specification of the language. Luckily, though, the people driving this evelopment realized early on that if these extensions to the language were t handled sensibly, they could end up as an unwieldy, tangled web of tags. Thus HTML was created using the Document Object Model (DOM) meaning that all elements of a web page are uniquely addressable from both JavaScript and CSS.More than that, it''s also easy to insert PHP script commands into web pages to