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Learning PHP 5
By David Sklar
 
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: June 2004
ISBN: 0-596-00560-1
Pages: 368
   


   Copyright
   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
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