Learning PHP 5



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Learning PHP 5
By David Sklar

Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: June 2004
ISBN	: 0-596-00560-1
Pages	: 368

Dedication

Preface

Who This Book Is For

Contents of This Book

Other Resources

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

Comments and Questions

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Orientation and First Steps

Section 1.1. PHP's Place in the Web World

Section 1.2. What's So Great About PHP?

Section 1.3. PHP in Action

Section 1.4. Basic Rules of PHP Programs

Section 1.5. Chapter Summary

Chapter 2. Working with Text and Numbers

Section 2.1. Text

Section 2.2. Numbers

Section 2.3. Variables

Section 2.4. Chapter Summary

Section 2.5. Exercises

Chapter 3. Making Decisions and Repeating Yourself

Section 3.1. Understanding true and false

Section 3.2. Making Decisions

Section 3.3. Building Complicated Decisions

Section 3.4. Repeating Yourself

Section 3.5. Chapter Summary

Section 3.6. Exercises

Chapter 4. Working with Arrays

Section 4.1. Array Basics

Section 4.2. Looping Through Arrays

Section 4.3. Modifying Arrays

Section 4.4. Sorting Arrays

Section 4.5. Using Multidimensional Arrays

Section 4.6. Chapter Summary

Section 4.7. Exercises

Chapter 5. Functions

Section 5.1. Declaring and Calling Functions

Section 5.2. Passing Arguments to Functions

Section 5.3. Returning Values from Functions

Section 5.4. Understanding Variable Scope

Section 5.5. Chapter Summary

Section 5.6. Exercises

Chapter 6. Making Web Forms

Section 6.1. Useful Server Variables

Section 6.2. Accessing Form Parameters

Section 6.3. Form Processing with Functions

Section 6.4. Validating Data

Section 6.5. Displaying Default Values

Section 6.6. Putting It All Together

Section 6.7. Chapter Summary

Section 6.8. Exercises

Chapter 7. Storing Information with Databases

Section 7.1. Organizing Data in a Database

Section 7.2. Connecting to a Database Program

Section 7.3. Creating a Table

Section 7.4. Putting Data into the Database

Section 7.5. Inserting Form Data Safely

Section 7.6. Generating Unique IDs

Section 7.7. A Complete Data Insertion Form

Section 7.8. Retrieving Data from the Database

Section 7.9. Changing the Format of Retrieved Rows

Section 7.10. Retrieving Form Data Safely

Section 7.11. A Complete Data Retrieval Form

Section 7.12. MySQL Without PEAR DB

Section 7.13. Chapter Summary

Section 7.14. Exercises

Chapter 8. Remembering Users with Cookies and Sessions

Section 8.1. Working with Cookies

Section 8.2. Activating Sessions

Section 8.3. Storing and Retrieving Information

Section 8.4. Configuring Sessions

Section 8.5. Login and User Identification

Section 8.6. Why setcookie( ) and session_start( ) Want to Be at the Top of the Page

Section 8.7. Chapter Summary

Section 8.8. Exercises

Chapter 9. Handling Dates and Times

Section 9.1. Displaying the Date or Time

Section 9.2. Parsing a Date or Time

Section 9.3. Dates and Times in Forms

Section 9.4. Displaying a Calendar

Section 9.5. Chapter Summary

Section 9.6. Exercises

Chapter 10. Working with Files

Section 10.1. Understanding File Permissions

Section 10.2. Reading and Writing Entire Files

Section 10.3. Reading and Writing Parts of Files

Section 10.4. Working with CSV Files

Section 10.5. Inspecting File Permissions

Section 10.6. Checking for Errors

Section 10.7. Sanitizing Externally Supplied Filenames

Section 10.8. Chapter Summary

Section 10.9. Exercises

Chapter 11. Parsing and Generating XML

Section 11.1. Parsing an XML Document

Section 11.2. Generating an XML Document

Section 11.3. Chapter Summary

Section 11.4. Exercises

Chapter 12. Debugging

Section 12.1. Controlling Where Errors Appear

Section 12.2. Fixing Parse Errors

Section 12.3. Inspecting Program Data

Section 12.4. Fixing Database Errors

Section 12.5. Chapter Summary

Section 12.6. Exercises

Chapter 13. What Else Can You Do with PHP?

Section 13.1. Graphics

Section 13.2. PDF

Section 13.3. Shockwave/Flash

Section 13.4. Browser-Specific Code

Section 13.5. Sending and Receiving Mail

Section 13.6. Uploading Files in Forms

Section 13.7. The HTML_QuickForm Form-Handling Framework

Section 13.8. Classes and Objects

Section 13.9. Advanced XML Processing

Section 13.10. SQLite

Section 13.11. Running Shell Commands

Section 13.12. Advanced Math

Section 13.13. Encryption

Section 13.14. Talking to Other Languages

Section 13.15. IMAP, POP3, and NNTP

Section 13.16. Command-Line PHP

Section 13.17. PHP-GTK

Section 13.18. Even More Things You Can Do with PHP

Appendix A. Installing and Configuring the PHP Interpreter

Section A.1. Using PHP with a Web-Hosting Provider

Section A.2. Installing the PHP Interpreter

Section A.3. Installing PEAR

Section A.4. Downloading and Installing PHP's Friends

Section A.5. Modifying PHP Configuration Directives

Section A.6. Appendix Summary

Appendix B. Regular Expression Basics

Section B.1. Characters and Metacharacters

Section B.2. Quantifiers

Section B.3. Anchors

Section B.4. Character Classes

Section B.5. Greed

Section B.6. PHP's PCRE Functions

Section B.7. Appendix Summary

Section B.8. Exercises

Appendix C. Answers To Exercises

Section C.1. Chapter 2

Section C.2. Chapter 3

Section C.3. Chapter 4

Section C.4. Chapter 5

Section C.5. Chapter 6

Section C.6. Chapter 7

Section C.7. Chapter 8

Section C.8. Chapter 9

Section C.9. Chapter 10

Section C.10. Chapter 11

Section C.11. Chapter 12

Section C.12. Appendix B

Colophon

Index

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