PHP 5 in Practice

9. Web Page Creation/XHTML/CSS This chapter may seem a bit odd considering that nearly every example in this book uses PHP to create a web page. However, the focus has been on other aspects of the language. This chapter explores techniques t...

9.1. Creating a Multilayer Drop-Down Menu When creating a website, navigation is always a problem. On a large complicated website, it can become a burden. Sometimes, having hierarchical drop-down menus can make this easier, allowing for a small ...

9.2. Highlighting What Section of a Website the User Is In Although a site may not always warrant a full multilayer navigation menu, most websites usually have at least a few different sections. Often many pages have links back to the top pages of...

9.3. Displaying Dynamic Progress Bars In some situations you might need to display a progress barfor example, when you are performing many tasks on the back end and they take a while to complete. In these cases it is a good idea to give some ind...

9.4. Simulating Graphical Charts with XHTML/CSS When you need to present data in a chart on a web page, it is often worthwhile to generate graphical charts. This method is covered later in Section 18.4, "Creating a Graph/Chart Library"...

9.5. Pagination of Results on a Web Page When creating browse or search functionality on a website, you many find that you end up with more data than the page can easily display at once. In these situations it makes for a better user experience ...

9.6. Caching Web Page Output for Server Optimization Often PHP is used to generate pages that do not change all that often. It isn't that PHP is used to make every page different for every user but that the page is simply built dynamically. In t...

9.7. Localizing a Web Page for Different Languages Internationalization and localization of a web page is simply the act of setting it up to be able to handle displaying in multiple languages and adding those different languages in. There are ma...

9.8. Using Ajax with PHP to Create an Interactive Web Page Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is the newest term for a technology that is catching on in popularity. The technology, introduced in 1999, allows a web page, via ...