The Web Wizard's Guide to PHP

1. Introduction To PHP.


Background On Web Technologies.



What do you need to get started?



The Basic Development process (Creating your first script).



Review and chapter end questions.



2. PHP Basics.


Using PHP Variables.



Using HTML Forms For Input.



Review and final question.



3. PHP Control Structures.


If-else-elsif pages - Why use control structures?



Using loops pages.



Review and chapter end questions.



4. Creating Your Own Functions.


Using Functions Pages.



Writing Your Own Functions.



Review and chapter end questions.



5. Using PHP Arrays.


Using Arrays pages.



Associative Array pages.



Review and review questions.



6. Using Files and regular expressions.


Using Files.



Using Regular Expressions.



Summary and review questions.



7. Writing Web Applications.


What are multiple Screen Web applications?



Using Hidden fields (8-10).



Using Cookies.



Creating application that sends email.



Using sessions to handle multiple screen applications.



Summary and review questions.



8. PHP Applications Using Databases.


Database Basics?



Using Databases With PHP.



Summary and review questions.



9. Appendices.


Using telnet to connect to UNIX Web servers.



Some basic UNIX commands.



Some basic SQL commands.