Conventions Used in This Book

The following programming and typesetting conventions are used in this book.

Programming Conventions

The code examples in this book are designed to work with PHP 5.0.0. They were tested with PHP 5.0.0RC2, which was the most up-to-date version of PHP 5 available at the time of publication. Almost all of the code in the book works with PHP 4.3 as well. The PHP 5-specific features discussed in the book are as follows:

• Chapter 7: the mysqli functions

• Chapter 10: the file_put_contents( ) function

• Chapter 11: the SimpleXML module

• Chapter 12: the E_STRICT error-reporting level

• Chapter 13: some new features related to classes and objects, the advanced XML processing functions, the bundled SQLite database, and the Perl extension

Typographical Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Italic

Indicates new terms, example URLs, example email addresses, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, and directories.

Constant width

Indicates commands, options, switches, variables, attributes, keys, functions, types, classes, namespaces, methods, modules, properties, parameters, values, objects, events, event handlers, XML tags, HTML tags, macros, the contents of files, or the output from commands.

Constant width italic

Shows text that should be replaced with user-supplied values.

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