Publisher : Sams Publishing.
Pub Date : December 28, 2004.
Pages : 840.
Over 12 million Internet domains worldwide use the PHP language to power their websites. If you are a programmer included in this group, or would like to be one, you should pick up a copy of PHP Unleashed. The definitive guide in PHP programming, PHP Unleashed thoroughly and authoritatively covers the release of PHP 5, as well as advanced topics not found in other books. It begins with a detailed summary of the basics and then quickly moves on to more advanced topics such as working with data, outputting graphical data and building complete applications. Whether you're an experienced programmer and new to PHP, or an experienced PHP programmer but new to PHP 5, this is the one PHP book you need in your library.
Part I. Working with PHP for General Web Development.
Basic PHP Development.
Arrays.
Regular Expressions.
Working with Forms in PHP.
Advanced Form Techniques.
Persistent Data Using Sessions and Cookies.
Using Templates.
Part II. Advanced Web Development.
PEAR.
SLT and Other XML Concerns.
Debugging and Optimizations.
User Authentication.
Data Encryption.
Object-Oriented Programming in PHP.
Error Handling.
Working with HTML/XHTML Using Tidy.
Writing Email in PHP.
Part III. Building Applications in PHP.
Using PHP for Console Scripting.
SOAP and PHP.
Building WAP-Enabled Websites.
Part IV. I/O, System Calls, and PHP.
Working with the File System.
Network I/O.
Accessing the Underlying OS from PHP.
Part V. Working with Data in PHP.
ntroduction to Databases.
Using MySQL with PHP.
Using SQLite with PHP.
PHP's dba Functions.
Part VI. Graphical Output with PHP.
Working with Images.
Printable Document Generation.
Part VII. Appendixes.
Appendix A. Installing PHP5 and MySQL.
Appendix B. HTTP Reference.
Appendix C. Migrating Applications from PHP4 to PHP5.
Appendix D. Good Programming Techniques and Performance Issues.
Appendix E. Resources and Mailing Lists.