PHP: The Good Parts
Delivering the Best of PHP
1st Edition
Published on 7. April 2010
178 pages
978-1-4493-9139-3 (ISBN)
Description
Get past all the hype about PHP and dig into the real power of this language. This book explores the most useful features of PHP and how they can speed up the web development process, and explains why the most commonly used PHP elements are often misused or misapplied. You'll learn which parts add strength to object-oriented programming, and how to use certain features to integrate your application with databases.Written by a longtime member of the PHP community, PHP: The Good Parts is ideal for new PHP programmers, as well as web developers switching from other languages.Become familiar with PHP's basic syntax, variables, and datatypesLearn how to integrate the language with web pagesUnderstand how to use strings, arrays, and PHP's built-in functionsDiscover the advantages of using PHP as an object-oriented languageExplore how PHP interacts with databases, such as SQLite and MySQLLearn input- and output-handling best practices to prevent security breaches
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- How to Contact Us
- Safari® Books Online
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. The Good Parts
- Why PHP?
- A Brief History of PHP
- PHP's Place in the World
- What Is PHP?
- What Has Been Accomplished with PHP?
- Basic PHP Setup
- Chapter 2. Casing the Joint
- Whitespace, Comments, and Basic Syntax
- Variables: Data Types, Loose Typing, and Scope
- Defined Constants
- Expressions
- Decisions, Decisions (Flow Control)
- If...Else...
- Switch...Case...
- While...
- For
- Integration with Web Pages
- Cookies
- Sessions
- $_GET
- $_POST
- $_REQUEST
- Chapter 3. Functions (Doing It Once)
- Parameter Passing
- Default Parameters
- Passing by Value Versus Passing by Reference
- Include and Require
- Built-In Functions Versus UDFs
- Chapter 4. Strings
- What Is a String?
- You Can Quote Me
- String Functions (Best of)
- String Trimmings
- Character Case Management
- String Content Searching
- String Modification
- Chapter 5. Arrays
- Indexed Arrays
- Associative Arrays
- Arrays from Another Dimension
- Arrays Can Be Dynamic
- Traversing Arrays
- Array Functions (Best of)
- Sorting Arrays
- Math-Type Functions
- Array Potpourri
- Chapter 6. Objects
- Putting It into Practice
- Magic Methods
- $this
- Objects in Action
- Public, Protected, and Private
- Getters and Setters
- Chapter 7. Database Interaction
- MySQLi Object Interface
- Retrieving Data for Display
- PHP Data Objects
- PDO Prepared Statements
- Data Management on the Cheap
- SQLite
- File Management As a Database Alternative
- Chapter 8. PHP and Friends
- Email/SMS Generation
- PDF Generation
- Constructor Method and Basic Document Options
- Adding Document Headers and Footers
- Adding Images and Links
- Adding a Watermark
- Dynamic PDFs and Table Display
- Graphical Reports Generation
- Pie Charts
- Bar Charts
- Captchas
- Chapter 9. PHP Security
- Data Validation
- Escape Output
- Cross-Site Scripting (XXS) and SQL Injection
- Password Encryption Security
- Security Tips
- Chapter 10. PHP 5.3 Good Parts
- Namespaces
- Closures (Anonymous Functions)
- NOWDOC
- goto Operator
- DateTime and DateTimeZone Classes
- Additional 5.3 Features
- Chapter 11. Advanced Goodness
- Regular Expressions
- String Matching
- String Substituting
- String Splitting
- SimpleXML
- Integrated Development Environments
- Komodo by ActiveState
- Zend Studio for Eclipse
- PhpED by NuSphere
- Primary Websites
- php.net
- zend.com
- devzone.zend.com
- phparch.com
- PHP/Web Conferences
- Appendix. The Bad Parts
- goto
- Function Naming and Parameter Order
- Loose Typing
- Register Globals
- Is That All?
- Index
