Learning PHP 5 / David Sklar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sklar, David.

Contributor:

Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

PHP (Computer program language).

Internet programming.

Physical Description:

xviii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Learning PHP five

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2004.

Summary:

PHP has gained a following among nontechnical web designers who need to add interactive aspects to their sites. Offering a gentle learning curve, PHP is an accessible yet powerful language for creating dynamic web pages. As its popularity has grown, PHP's basic feature set has become increasingly more sophisticated. Now PHP 5 boasts advanced features -- such as new object-oriented capabilities and support for XML and Web Services -- that will please even the most experienced web professionals, while still remaining user-friendly enough for those with a lower tolerance for technical jargon. If you want to try your hand at PHP but don't know where to start, then Learning PHP 5 is the book you need. With attention to both PHP 4 and the new PHP Version 5, it provides everything from a explanation of how PHP works with your web server and web browser to the ins and outs of working with MySQL databases and HTML forms. Written by the coauthor of the popular PHP Cookbook, this book is for intelligent (but not necessarily highly technical) readers.

Contents:

PHP's Place in the Web World 1

What's So Great About PHP? 4

PHP in Action 6

Basic Rules of PHP Programs 11

2. Working with Text and Numbers 16

Variables 27

3. Making Decisions and Repeating Yourself 33

Understanding true and false 34

Making Decisions 35

Building Complicated Decisions 37

Repeating Yourself 43

4. Working with Arrays 48

Looping Through Arrays 52

Modifying Arrays 57

Sorting Arrays 60

Using Multidimensional Arrays 63

5. Functions 69

Declaring and Calling Functions 70

Passing Arguments to Functions 71

Returning Values from Functions 74

Understanding Variable Scope 78

6. Making Web Forms 84

Accessing Form Parameters 88

Form Processing with Functions 90

Validating Data 93

Displaying Default Values 103

7. Storing Information with Databases 114

Organizing Data in a Database 115

Connecting to a Database Program 117

Creating a Table 119

Putting Data into the Database 121

Inserting Form Data Safely 126

Generating Unique IDs 127

A Complete Data Insertion Form 128

Retrieving Data from the Database 131

Changing the Format of Retrieved Rows 136

Retrieving Form Data Safely 138

A Complete Data Retrieval Form 141

MySQL Without PEAR DB 145

8. Remembering Users with Cookies and Sessions 151

Activating Sessions 156

Storing and Retrieving Information 157

Configuring Sessions 160

Login and User Identification 161

Why setcookie() and session_start() Want to Be at the Top of the Page 167

9. Handling Dates and Times 170

Displaying the Date or Time 170

Parsing a Date or Time 175

Dates and Times in Forms 176

Displaying a Calendar 186

10. Working with Files 192

Understanding File Permissions 192

Reading and Writing Entire Files 193

Reading and Writing Parts of Files 197

Working with CSV Files 200

Inspecting File Permissions 203

Checking for Errors 204

Sanitizing Externally Supplied Filenames 206

11. Parsing and Generating XML 210

Parsing an XML Document 211

Generating an XML Document 217

12. Debugging 221

Controlling Where Errors Appear 221

Fixing Parse Errors 222

Inspecting Program Data 226

Fixing Database Errors 229

13. What Else Can You Do with PHP? 232

Graphics 232

PDF 233

Shockwave/Flash 234

Browser-Specific Code 236

Sending and Receiving Mail 236

Uploading Files in Forms 237

The HTML_QuickForm Form-Handling Framework 239

Classes and Objects 242

Advanced XML Processing 244

SQLite 247

Running Shell Commands 248

Advanced Math 249

Encryption 250

Talking to Other Languages 251

IMAP, POP3, and NNTP 251

Command-Line PHP 253

PHP-GTK 253

Even More Things You Can Do with PHP 254

A. Installing and Configuring the PHP Interpreter 255

B. Regular Expression Basics 280.

Notes:

"A pain-free introduction to building interactive Web sites"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

ISBN:

0596005601

OCLC:

55950881