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PHP: The Complete Reference

1st Edition
0071508546 · 9780071508544
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Your One-Stop Guide to Web Development with PHP--Covers PH… Read More
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Chapter 1. Essential PHP
Chapter 2. Operators and Flow Control
Chapter 3. Strings and Arrays
Chapter 4. Creating Functions
Chapter 5. Reading Data in Web Pages
Chapter 6. PHP Browser-Handling Power
Chapter 7. Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 8. Advanced Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 9. File Handling
Chapter 10. Working with Databases
Chapter 11. Sessions, Cookies, and FTP
Chapter 12. Ajax
Chapter 13. Advanced Ajax
Chapter 14. Drawing Images on the Server
Chapter 15. XML and RSS
Index

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Your One-Stop Guide to Web Development with PHP--Covers PHP 5.2

Build dynamic, cross-browser Web applications with PHP--the server-side programming language that's taken the Internet by storm. Through detailed explanations and downloadable code examples, this comprehensive guide shows you, step-by-step, how to configure PHP, create PHP-enabled Web pages, and put every advanced development tool to work.

PHP: The Complete Reference explains how to personalize the PHP work space, define operators and variables, manipulate strings and arrays, deploy HTML forms and buttons, and process user input. You'll learn how to access database information, track client-side preferences using cookies, execute FTP and e-mail transactions, and publish your applications to the Web. You'll also get in-depth coverage of PHP's next-generation Web 2.0 design features, including AJAX, XML, and RSS.

  • Install PHP and set up a customized development environment
  • Work with variables, operators, loops, strings, arrays, and functions
  • Integrate HTML controls, text fields, forms, radio buttons, and checkboxes
  • Accept and validate user-entered data from Web pages
  • Simplify programming using PHP's object-oriented tools
  • Build blogs, guest books, and feedback pages with server-side file storage
  • Write MySQL scripts that retrieve, modify, and update database information
  • Set cookies, perform FTP transactions, and send e-mails from PHP sessions
  • Build AJAX-enabled Web pages
  • Draw graphics on the server
  • Create XML components and add RSS feeds