Programming PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf started the PHP Project back in 1995 and has been actively involved in PHP development ever since. He has also been involved in a number of other Open Source projects, including being a longtime Apache contributor and foundation member. He lives in Cary, North Carolina with his wife, Christine. Kevin Tatroe has been a Macintosh and Unix programmer for ten years. Being lazy, he's attracted to languages and frameworks that do much of the work for you, such as the AppleScript, Perl, and PHP languages and the WebObjects and Cocoa programming environments. Kevin, his wife Jenn, his son Hadden, and two cats live on the edge of the rural plains of Colorado, just far away enough from the mountains to avoid the worst snowfall, and just close enough to avoid tornadoes. The house is filled with LEGO creations, action figures, and other toys.

Preface; 1. Introduction to PHP What Does PHP Do? A Brief History of PHP Installing PHP A Walk Through PHP; 2. Language Basics Lexical Structure Data Types Variables Expressions and Operators Flow-Control Statements Including Code Embedding PHP in Web Pages; 3. Functions Calling a Function Defining a Function Variable Scope Function Parameters Return Values Variable Functions Anonymous Functions; 4. Strings Quoting String Constants Printing Strings Accessing Individual Characters Cleaning Strings Encoding and Escaping Comparing Strings Manipulating and Searching Strings Regular Expressions POSIX-Style Regular Expressions Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions; 5. Arrays Indexed Versus Associative Arrays Identifying Elements of an Array Storing Data in Arrays Multidimensional Arrays Extracting Multiple Values Converting Between Arrays and Variables Traversing Arrays Sorting Acting on Entire Arrays Using Arrays; 6. Objects Terminology Creating an Object Accessing Properties and Methods Declaring a Class Introspection Serialization; 7. Web Techniques HTTP Basics Variables Server Information Processing Forms Setting Response Headers Maintaining State SSL; 8. Databases Using PHP to Access a Database Relational Databases and SQL PEAR DB Basics Advanced Database Techniques Sample Application; 9. Graphics Embedding an Image in a Page The GD Extension Basic Graphics Concepts Creating and Drawing Images Images with Text Dynamically Generated Buttons Scaling Images Color Handling; 10. PDF PDF Extensions Documents and Pages Text Images and Graphics Navigation Other PDF Features; 11. XML Lightning Guide to XML Generating XML Parsing XML Transforming XML with XSLT Web Services; 12. Security Global Variables and Form Data Filenames File Uploads File Permissions Concealing PHP Libraries PHP Code Shell Commands Security Redux; 13. Application Techniques Code Libraries Templating Systems Handling Output Error Handling Performance Tuning; 14. Extending PHP Architectural Overview What You'll Need Building Your First Extensions The config.m4 File Memory Management The pval/zval Data Type Parameter Handling Returning Values References Global Variables Creating Variables Extension INI Entries Resources Where to Go from Here; 15. PHP on Windows Installing and Configuring PHP on Windows Writing Portable Code for Windows and Unix Interfacing with COM Interacting with ODBC Data Sources; A. Function Reference; B. Extension Overview; Index