Programming PHP
2nd Edition
Published on 6. June 2006
Book
540 pages
978-0-596-00681-5 (ISBN)
Description
Programming PHP, 2nd Edition, is the authoritative guide to PHP 5 and is filled with the unique knowledge of the creator of PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf) and other PHP experts. When it comes to creating websites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used on more than 19 million websites, surpassing Microsoft's ASP.NET technology in popularity. Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility and convenience.
As the industry standard book on PHP, all of the essentials are covered in a clear and concise manner. Language syntax and programming techniques are coupled with numerous examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms. With style tips and practical programming advice, this book will help you become not just a PHP programmer, but a good PHP programmer. Programming PHP, Second Edition covers everything you need to know to create effective web applications with PHP. Contents include:
* Detailed information on the basics of the PHP language, including data types, variables, operators, and flow control statements
* Chapters outlining the basics of functions, strings, arrays, and objects
* Coverage of common PHP web application techniques, such as form processing and validation, session tracking, and cookies
* Material on interacting with relational databases, such as MySQL and Oracle, using the database-independent PEAR DB library and the new PDO Library
* Chapters that show you how to generate dynamic images, create PDF files, and parse XML files with PHP
* Advanced topics, such as creating secure scripts, error handling, performance tuning, and writing your own C language extensions to PHP
* A handy quick reference to all the core functions in PHP and all the standard extensions that ship with PHP
Praise for the first edition:
"If you are just getting into the dynamic Web development world or you
are considering migrating from another dynamic web product to PHP, Programming PHP is the book of choice to get you up, running, and productive in a short time."
--Peter MacIntrye, eWeek
"I think this is a great book for programmers who want to start developing dynamic websites with PHP. It gives a detailed overview of PHP, lots of valuable tips, and a good sense of PHP's strengths."
--David Dooling, Slashdot.org
As the industry standard book on PHP, all of the essentials are covered in a clear and concise manner. Language syntax and programming techniques are coupled with numerous examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms. With style tips and practical programming advice, this book will help you become not just a PHP programmer, but a good PHP programmer. Programming PHP, Second Edition covers everything you need to know to create effective web applications with PHP. Contents include:
* Detailed information on the basics of the PHP language, including data types, variables, operators, and flow control statements
* Chapters outlining the basics of functions, strings, arrays, and objects
* Coverage of common PHP web application techniques, such as form processing and validation, session tracking, and cookies
* Material on interacting with relational databases, such as MySQL and Oracle, using the database-independent PEAR DB library and the new PDO Library
* Chapters that show you how to generate dynamic images, create PDF files, and parse XML files with PHP
* Advanced topics, such as creating secure scripts, error handling, performance tuning, and writing your own C language extensions to PHP
* A handy quick reference to all the core functions in PHP and all the standard extensions that ship with PHP
Praise for the first edition:
"If you are just getting into the dynamic Web development world or you
are considering migrating from another dynamic web product to PHP, Programming PHP is the book of choice to get you up, running, and productive in a short time."
--Peter MacIntrye, eWeek
"I think this is a great book for programmers who want to start developing dynamic websites with PHP. It gives a detailed overview of PHP, lots of valuable tips, and a good sense of PHP's strengths."
--David Dooling, Slashdot.org
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
PHP Programmers
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1, black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
876 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-596-00681-5 (9780596006815)
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Persons
Kevin Tatroe has been a Macintosh and Unix programmer for ten years. Being lazy, he's attracted to languages and frameworks that do much of the work for you, such as the AppleScript, Perl, and PHP languages and the WebObjects and Cocoa programming environments. Kevin, his wife Jenn, his son Hadden, and two cats live on the edge of the rural plains of Colorado, just far away enough from the mountains to avoid the worst snowfall, and just close enough to avoid tornadoes. The house is filled with LEGO creations, action figures, and other toys. Rasmus Lerdorf started the PHP Project back in 1995 and has been actively involved in PHP development ever since. Also involved in a number of other Open Source projects, Rasmus is a longtime Apache contributor and foundation member. He is the author of the first edition of the PHP Pocket Reference, and the co-author of Programming PHP. Peter MacIntyre lives and works in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He has over 16 years of experience in the information technology industry, primarily in the area of software development. Peter's technical skill set includes several client/server tools and relational database systems such as PHP, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Active Server Pages, and CA-Visual Objects. Peter is certified by ZEND Corporation on PHP 4.x and has contributed writing material for Using Visual Objects (Que Corp.), Using PowerBuilder 5 (Que Corp.), ASP.NET Bible (Wiley Pub.), and Web Warrior Survey on Web Development Languages (Course Technology). Peter is also currently a contributing editor and author to the on-line and in-print magazine called php|architect (www.phparch.com). He has also spoken several times at North American and International computer conferences including CA-World in New Orleans, USA; CA-TechniCon in Cologne, Germany; and CA-Expo in Melbourne, Australia.
Content
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction to PHP
What Does PHP Do?
A Brief History of PHP
Installing PHP
A Walk Through PHP
2. Language Basics
Lexical Structure
Data Types
Variables
Expressions and Operators
Flow-Control Statements
Including Code
Embedding PHP in Web Pages
3. Functions
Calling a Function
Defining a Function
Variable Scope
Function Parameters
Return Values
Variable Functions
Anonymous Functions
4. Strings
Quoting String Constants
Printing Strings
Accessing Individual Characters
Cleaning Strings
Encoding and Escaping
Comparing Strings
Manipulating and Searching Strings
Regular Expressions
POSIX-Style Regular Expressions
Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions
5. Arrays
Indexed Versus Associative Arrays
Identifying Elements of an Array
Storing Data in Arrays
Multidimensional Arrays
Extracting Multiple Values
Converting Between Arrays and Variables
Traversing Arrays
Sorting
Acting on Entire Arrays
Using Arrays
6. Objects
Terminology
Creating an Object
Accessing Properties and Methods
Declaring a Class
Introspection
Serialization
7. Web Techniques
HTTP Basics
Variables
Server Information
Processing Forms
Setting Response Headers
Maintaining State
SSL
8. Databases
Using PHP to Access a Database
Relational Databases and SQL
PEAR DB Basics
Advanced Database Techniques
Sample Application
9. Graphics
Embedding an Image in a Page
The GD Extension
Basic Graphics Concepts
Creating and Drawing Images
Images with Text
Dynamically Generated Buttons
Scaling Images
Color Handling
10. PDF
PDF Extensions
Documents and Pages
Text
11. XML
Lightning Guide to XML
Generating XML
Parsing XML
Parsing XML with DOM
Parsing XML with SimpleXML
Transforming XML with XSLT
Web Services
12. Security
Filter Input
Escape Output
Cross-Site Scripting
Session Fixation
File Uploads
File Access
PHP Code
Shell Commands
More Information
Security Recap
13. Application Techniques
Code Libraries
Templating Systems
Handling Output
Error Handling
Performance Tuning
14. Extending PHP
Architectural Overview
What You'll Need
Building Your First Extensions
The config.m4 File
Memory Management
The pval/zval Data Type
Parameter Handling
Returning Values
References
Global Variables
Creating Variables
Extension INI Entries
Resources
Where to Go from Here
15. PHP on Windows
Installing and Configuring PHP on Windows
Writing Portable Code for Windows and Unix
Interfacing with COM
Interacting with ODBC Data Sources
A. Function Reference
B. Extension Overview
Index
Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction to PHP
What Does PHP Do?
A Brief History of PHP
Installing PHP
A Walk Through PHP
2. Language Basics
Lexical Structure
Data Types
Variables
Expressions and Operators
Flow-Control Statements
Including Code
Embedding PHP in Web Pages
3. Functions
Calling a Function
Defining a Function
Variable Scope
Function Parameters
Return Values
Variable Functions
Anonymous Functions
4. Strings
Quoting String Constants
Printing Strings
Accessing Individual Characters
Cleaning Strings
Encoding and Escaping
Comparing Strings
Manipulating and Searching Strings
Regular Expressions
POSIX-Style Regular Expressions
Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions
5. Arrays
Indexed Versus Associative Arrays
Identifying Elements of an Array
Storing Data in Arrays
Multidimensional Arrays
Extracting Multiple Values
Converting Between Arrays and Variables
Traversing Arrays
Sorting
Acting on Entire Arrays
Using Arrays
6. Objects
Terminology
Creating an Object
Accessing Properties and Methods
Declaring a Class
Introspection
Serialization
7. Web Techniques
HTTP Basics
Variables
Server Information
Processing Forms
Setting Response Headers
Maintaining State
SSL
8. Databases
Using PHP to Access a Database
Relational Databases and SQL
PEAR DB Basics
Advanced Database Techniques
Sample Application
9. Graphics
Embedding an Image in a Page
The GD Extension
Basic Graphics Concepts
Creating and Drawing Images
Images with Text
Dynamically Generated Buttons
Scaling Images
Color Handling
10. PDF
PDF Extensions
Documents and Pages
Text
11. XML
Lightning Guide to XML
Generating XML
Parsing XML
Parsing XML with DOM
Parsing XML with SimpleXML
Transforming XML with XSLT
Web Services
12. Security
Filter Input
Escape Output
Cross-Site Scripting
Session Fixation
File Uploads
File Access
PHP Code
Shell Commands
More Information
Security Recap
13. Application Techniques
Code Libraries
Templating Systems
Handling Output
Error Handling
Performance Tuning
14. Extending PHP
Architectural Overview
What You'll Need
Building Your First Extensions
The config.m4 File
Memory Management
The pval/zval Data Type
Parameter Handling
Returning Values
References
Global Variables
Creating Variables
Extension INI Entries
Resources
Where to Go from Here
15. PHP on Windows
Installing and Configuring PHP on Windows
Writing Portable Code for Windows and Unix
Interfacing with COM
Interacting with ODBC Data Sources
A. Function Reference
B. Extension Overview
Index