No Starch Press releases "Object Oriented PHP"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media contact:	Patricia Witkin
patricia@nostarch.com 
415.863.9900 x303


INTRO TO PHP's OBJECT ORIENTED CAPABILITIES HELPS WORKING WEB DEVELOPERS
BE MORE PRODUCTIVE  


With code that can be downloaded and used immediately, new book gives OOP
thorough treatment


San Francisco, CA--It's commonly believed that "real" developers
use object oriented programming (OOP). While PHP 4 offered limited OOP
capabilities, PHP 5 is a full blown object oriented language. The new
object model makes OOP in PHP much more powerful and intuitive, and better
than ever for any  project. In "Object Oriented PHP: Concepts, Techniques,
and Code" (No Starch Press, June 2006, http://www.nostarch.com/oophp.htm),
author Peter Lavin helps developers make the leap from procedural to
object oriented code by conditioning them to think of programming as using
a set of ready-made tools.

"Object Oriented PHP" begins with a discussion of code compatible with PHP
4, and then focuses on object orientation in PHP 5. The author's practical
approach teaches by example, coupling new concepts with easily reusable
sample code, all of which is available for download on the book's
companion website. Moreover, the book illustrates concepts with concrete
examples, rather than discussing them in the abstract, and the advantages
of object-oriented programming are clearly demonstrated, not simply
asserted. Additional resources and the downloadable code are available at
the companion website, http://objectorientedphp.com/. 



Inside "Object Oriented PHP," readers learn to:

-Use PHP with AJAX applications
-Simplify database access using MySQL classes
-Replace clumsy error trapping with exception handling
-Use XML with an object oriented approach
-Read an RSS feed using only four lines of code
-Use the Reflection classes to autogenerate documentation for code
-Create thumbnail images on the fly
-Learn to use PDO to create a uniform database interface 
-Take full advantage of the advanced object oriented features of PHP

"'Object Oriented PHP' fits the profile of a typical No Starch Press book--
it's well-written, there's no fluff or filler material, the author really
knows his stuff, and it's organized so readers can use what they've
learned immediately," said Bill Pollock, founder of No Starch Press. "It's
a practical and non-ideological approach to object oriented programming."

Containing information unavailable elsewhere and consolidating material
spread across multiple sources, Object Oriented PHP is the best book on
the market for developers who are familiar with PHP and want to grasp its
object oriented capabilities. It's also suitable for programmers who
already know an object oriented language like Java and would like to learn
a scripting language. 



Additional Resources

Sample chapter: http://www.nostarch.com/download/oophp_ch8.pdf

Table of contents: http://www.nostarch.com/oophp_toc.htm


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Peter Lavin writes regularly on all things tech, from
computer book reviews to web design, and runs a web development firm based
in Toronto. He has been published in a number of magazines and online
sites, including UnixReview.com, International PHP Magazine and
php|architect, and is a contributor to PHP Hacks (O'Reilly).



Object Oriented PHP
Peter Lavin
June 2006, 224 pp., $39.95
ISBN 1-59327-077-1,
http://www.nostarch.com/oophp.htm 

Available at fine bookstores everywhere, from www.oreilly.com/nostarch, or
directly from No Starch Press (www.nostarch.com, orders@nostarch.com,
800.420.7240). 



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