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Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition
By Matt Zandstra
 
Publisher: Sams Publishing
Pub Date: December 23, 2003
ISBN: 0-672-32619-1
Pages: 500


   Copyright
   About the Author
   Acknowledgments
   Tell Us What You Think!
   Introduction
      Who Should Read This Book?
      How This Book Is Organized
    Part I:  Getting Started
      Hour 1.  PHP: From Home Page to Web Enterprise
      What Is PHP?
      What Need Does PHP Fulfill?
      What's New in PHP 5
      The Zend Engine
      Why Choose PHP?
      What's New in This Edition
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercise
      Hour 2.  Installing PHP
      Platforms, Servers, Databases, and PHP
      Where to Find PHP and More
      Installing PHP for Linux and Apache
      Some configure Options
      Configuring Apache
      php.ini
      Help!
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercise
      Hour 3.  A First Script
      Our First Script
      Combining HTML and PHP
      Adding Comments to PHP Code
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercise
    Part II:  The Language
      Hour 4.  The Building Blocks
      Variables
      Data Types
      Operators and Expressions
      Constants
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 5.  Going with the Flow
      Switching Flow
      Loops
      Code Blocks and Browser Output
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 6.  Functions
      What Is a Function?
      Calling Functions
      Defining a Function
      Returning Values from User-Defined Functions
      Dynamic Function Calls
      Variable Scope
      Saving State Between Function Calls with the static Statement
      More About Arguments
      Creating Anonymous Functions
      Testing for Function Existence
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercise
      Hour 7.  Arrays
      What Is an Array?
      Creating Arrays
      Associative Arrays
      Multidimensional Arrays
      Accessing Arrays
      Manipulating Arrays
      Sorting Arrays
      Functions Revisited
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 8.  Working with Strings
      Formatting Strings
      Investigating Strings
      Manipulating Strings
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 9.  Objects
      What Is an Object?
      Creating an Object
      Object Properties
      Object Methods
      Limiting Access to Object Properties
      Limiting Access to Object Methods
      Constraining Arguments to Methods with Hints
      Inheritance
      Testing Classes and Objects
      Automatically Loading Include Files with ___autoload()
      Storing and Retrieving Objects
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
    Part III :  Working with PHP
      Hour 10.  Working with Forms
      Superglobal Variables
      The $_SERVER Array
      A Script to Acquire User Input
      Importing User Input into Global Scope
      Accessing Form Input with User-Defined Arrays
      Combining HTML and PHP Code on a Single Page
      Using Hidden Fields to Save State
      Redirecting the User
      File Upload Forms and Scripts
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 11.  Working with Files
      Including Files with include()
      Using include_once() and include_path to Manage Larger Projects
      Testing Files
      Creating and Deleting Files
      Opening a File for Writing, Reading, or Appending
      Reading from Files
      Reading the Contents of a File with file_get_contents()
      Writing or Appending to a File
      Writing Data to a File with file_put_contents()
      Working with Directories
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 12.  Working with the DBA Functions
      Beneath the Abstraction
      Opening a Database
      Adding Data to the Database
      Amending Elements in a Database
      Reading from a Database
      Determining Whether an Item Exists in a Database
      Deleting an Item from a Database
      Adding Complex Data Structures to a Database
      An Example
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 13.  Database Integration—SQL
      A (Very) Brief Introduction to SQL
      Connecting to the MySQL Database Server
      Selecting a Database
      Finding Out About Errors
      Adding Data to a Table
      Acquiring the Value of an Automatically Incremented Field
      Accessing Information
      Changing Data
      SQLite: A Lightweight SQL Engine
      Selecting Data
      Using the PEAR DB Package
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 14.  Beyond the Box
      Server Variables Revisited
      A Brief Summary of an HTTP Client/Server Negotiation
      Getting a Document from a Remote Address
      Converting IP Addresses and Hostnames
      Making a Network Connection
      Sending Mail with the mail() Function
      An Introduction to Streams
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 15.  Images On-the-Fly
      Checking Your Configuration with gd_info()
      Creating and Outputting Images
      Acquiring Color
      Drawing Lines
      Applying Color Fills
      Drawing an Arc
      Drawing a Rectangle
      Drawing a Polygon
      Making a Color Transparent
      Working with Text
      Bringing It Together
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 16.  Working with Dates and Times
      Getting the Date with time()
      Converting a Timestamp with getdate()
      Converting a Timestamp with date()
      Creating Timestamps with mktime()
      An Example
      A Date Pull-down Library
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercise
      Hour 17.  Advanced Objects
      Objects and Constants
      Static Properties
      Static Methods
      Intercepting Calls to Object Properties and Methods
      Final Methods
      Cleaning Up Using Destructors
      Managing Error Conditions with Exceptions
      Tools for Building Object Hierarchies
      Passing and Assigning Objects
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 18.  Working with Regular Expressions
      Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercise
      Hour 19.  Saving State with Cookies and Query Strings
      Cookies
      Setting a Cookie with PHP
      Working with the Query String
      Creating a Query String
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 20.  Saving State with Session Functions
      What Are Session Functions?
      Starting a Session with session_start()
      Working with Session Variables
      Destroying Sessions and Unsetting Elements
      Passing Session IDs in the Query String
      Encoding and Decoding Session Variables
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 21.  Working with the Server Environment
      Opening Pipes to and from Processes with popen() and proc_open()
      Running Commands with exec()
      Running External Commands with system() or the Backtick Operator
      Plugging Security Holes with escapeshellcmd()
      Running External Applications with passthru()
      Calling an External CGI Script with the virtual() Function
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 22.  XML
      What Is XML?
      XML Parser Functions
      An Introduction to the DOM XML Functions
      XSL: A Brief Discussion
      Introducing SimpleXML
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
    Part IV:  Extending PHP
      Hour 23.  PEAR: Reusable Components to Extend the Power of PHP
      What Is PEAR?
      Some PEAR Packages in Action
      PEAR and Your Own Code
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
      Hour 24.  Toward a Framework for Larger Projects
      Principles and Problems
      The Controller Object
      The RequestHelper and DataStore Classes
      The CommandFactory Class
      The Command Class
      The Dispatcher Class
      Working with the Framework
      Where Now, and Was It Worth It?
      Summary
      Q&A
      Workshop
      Exercises
   Glossary
   Index
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