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Book for developing and deploying a Magento online store

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By amits - Posted on 04 March 2010

Packt is pleased to announce Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide, a new book that helps PHP developers build applications that interface with the customer, product, and order data using Magento's Core API. Written by Jamie Huskisson, this book is packed with examples for effective Magento development.

Magento is an Open Source, e-commerce web application that was created by Varien, and built on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is the hottest and most powerful e-commerce software and has gained popularity in a short period of time. Users can control the look, content and functionality of their e-commerce web site with the help of Magento’s powerful theming engine.

Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide will help developers extend and customize the Magento e-commerce system using PHP code. They will get familiar with the architecture and internal structure of Magento and learn about the best modules available. Developers can then build a shipping module for their Magento store to give users options for receiving their items once they have paid for them.

XOOPS 2.5 Alpha 2 Released

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By mamba - Posted on 01 March 2010

The XOOPS Projects has released Alpha 2 of its upcoming XOOPS 2.5.0 release.

This new release a major redesign of the Administration module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery. Some of the new features are breaking a new ground for XOOPS, like the visual placement of blocks, and we're sure that the users will love them. The 2.5.0 release will be definitely the most innovative XOOPS  release in years.

XOOPS Admin


Some of the major improvements/additions include new Help System for Admin and modules, MySQL Dump function, Tables Maintenance and Cache Clean-up in Maintenance, new Redirect messaging system, and Column sorting in tables. 

The focus on improved usability resulted in more visual administration using drag & drop, among them module ordering and block placement, and direct access to files for editing and folder management via a new File Manager. 

The developers also did a lot of code refactoring to use the latest XOOPS API. 

You can see a video with overview of the main new features on YouTube 

For more info and download links, please visit XOOPS Site

Building Applications with JavaScript and PHP using new AJAX book

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By jasminet - Posted on 21 December 2009

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Web 2.0 Applications ,that helps users build user friendly Web 2.0 Applications with JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and jQuery . Written by Audra Hendrix, Bogdan Brinzarea and Cristian Darie, AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications 2nd Edition is a friendly tutorial, enhancing the user experience of a PHP website using AJAX, thereby creating faster and better web applications.

Ajax is a group of interrelated web development techniques, used on the client-side to create interactive web applications that retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. PHP is a scripting language designed for web development and to produce dynamic web pages. AJAX enables interactive interfaces that can replace traditional user interfaces and enhance the user experience of PHP websites.

Readers will learn how to write unobtrusive AJAX code and also to debug them using modern tools through this book. This book provides a complete case study of AJAX Form Validation, AJAX Online Chat and AJAX Editable DataGrid with jQuery, thereby combining client-side and server-side functionality to enhance the user experience of the site using AJAX. Advanced AJAX and PHP patterns and techniques such as predictive fetching, progress indicator, graceful degradation, and cross-domain calls are thoroughly discussed in this book.