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Learning PHP 5 - by David Sklar http://safari.oreilly.com/0596005601...php5-PREFACE-2 Contents of This Book This book is designed so that you start at the beginning and work through the chapters in order. For the most part, each chapter depends on material in the previous chapters. Chapter 2, through Chapter 12 and Appendix B, each end with exercises that test your understanding of the content in the chapter. Chapter 1, provides some general background on PHP and how it interacts with your web browser and a web server. It also shows some PHP programs and what they do to give you an idea of what PHP programs look like. Especially if you're new to programming or building dynamic web sites, it is important to read Chapter 1. The next four chapters give you a grounding in the fundamentals of PHP. Before you can write great literature, you need to learn a little grammar and some vocabulary. That's what these chapters are for. (Don't worry—you'll learn enough PHP grammar and vocabulary right away to start writing some short programs, if not great literature.) Chapter 2 shows you how to work with different kinds of data such as pieces of text and numbers. This is important because the web pages that your PHP programs generate are just big pieces of text. Chapter 3, describes the PHP commands with which your programs can make decisions. These decisions are at the heart of the "dynamic" in "dynamic web site." The concepts in Chapter 3 are what you use, for example, to display only items in a product catalog that fall between two prices a user enters in a web form. Chapter 4, introduces arrays, which are collections of a bunch of individual numbers or pieces of text. Many frequent activities in PHP programs, such as processing submitted web form parameters or examining information pulled out of a database, involve using arrays. As you write more complicated programs, you'll find yourself wanting to repeat similar tasks. Functions, discussed in Chapter 5, help you reuse pieces of your programs. The three chapters after that cover three essential tasks in building a dynamic web site: dealing with forms, databases, and users. Chapter 6, supplies the details on working with web forms. These are the primary way that users interact with your web site. Chapter 7, discusses databases. A database holds the information that your web site displays, such as a product catalog or event calendar. This chapter shows you how to make your PHP programs talk to a database. With the techniques in Chapter 8, your web site can do user-specific things such as display sensitive information to authorized people only or tell someone how many new message board posts have been created since she last logged in. Then, the next three chapters examine three other areas you're likely to encounter when building your web site. Chapter 9, highlights the steps you need to take, for example, to display a monthly calendar or to allow users to input a date or time from a web form. Chapter 10, describes the PHP commands for interacting with files on your own computer or elsewhere on the Internet. Chapter 11, supplies the basics for dealing with XML documents in your PHP programs, whether you need to generate one for another program to consume or you've been provided with one to use in your own program. Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 each stand on their own. Chapter 12, furnishes some approaches for understanding the error messages that the PHP interpreter generates and hunting down problems in your programs. While it partially depends on earlier material, it may be worthwhile to skip ahead and peruse Chapter 12 as you're working through the book. Chapter 13 serves a taste of many additional capabilities of PHP, such as generating images, running code written in other languages, and making Flash movies. After you've gotten comfortable with the core PHP concepts explained in Chapter 1 through Chapter 12, visit Chapter 13 for lots of new things to learn. The three appendixes provide supplementary material. To run PHP programs, you need to have a copy of the PHP interpreter installed on your computer (or have an account with a web-hosting provider that supports PHP). Appendix A, helps you get up and running, whether you are using Windows, OS X, or Linux. Many text-processing tasks in PHP, such as validating submitted form parameters or parsing an HTML document, are made easier by using regular expressions, a powerful but initially inscrutable pattern matching syntax. Appendix B, explains the basics of regular expressions so that you can use them in your programs if you choose. Last, Appendix C, contains the answers to all the exercises in the book. No peeking until you try the exercises!

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PHP Cookbook - by David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg

Read online: http://safari.oreilly.com/0596101015/phpckbk-PREFACE-2

What Is in This Book

We don't expect that you'll sit down and read this book from cover to cover (although we'll be happy if you do!). PHP programmers are constantly faced with a wide variety of challenges on a wide range of subjects. Turn to the PHP Cookbook when you encounter a problem you need to solve. Each recipe is a self-contained explanation that gives you a head start toward finishing your task. When a recipe refers to topics outside its scope, it contains pointers to related recipes and other online and offline resources.

If you choose to read an entire chapter at once, that's okay. The recipes generally flow from easy to hard, with example programs that "put it all together" at the end of many chapters. The chapter introduction provides an overview of the material covered in the chapter, including relevant background material, and points out a few highlighted recipes of special interest.

The book begins with four chapters about basic data types. Chapter 1 covers details like processing substrings, manipulating case, taking strings apart into smaller pieces, and parsing comma-separated data. Chapter 2 explains operations with floating-point numbers, random numbers, converting between bases, and number formatting. Chapter 3 shows you how to manipulate dates and times, format them, handle time zones and daylight saving time, and find time to microsecond precision. Chapter 4 covers array operations like iterating, merging, reversing, sorting, and extracting particular elements.
Next are three chapters that discuss program building blocks. Chpater 5 covers notable features of PHP's variable handling, such as default values, static variables, and producing string representations of complex data types. The recipes in Chpater 6 deal with using functions in PHP: processing arguments, passing and returning variables by reference, creating functions at runtime, and scoping variables. Chapter 7 covers PHP's object-oriented capabilities, with recipes on OOP basics as well as PHP 5's new features, such as magic methods, destructors, access control, and reflection.

After the data types and building blocks come six chapters devoted to topics that are central to web programming. Chapter 8 covers cookies, headers, authentication, working with query strings, and other fundamentals of web applications. Chapter 9 covers processing and validating form input, displaying multipage forms, showing forms with error messages, and guarding against problems such as cross-site scripting and multiple submission of the same form. Chapter 10 explains the differences between DBM and SQL databases and, using PHP 5's PDO database access abstraction layer, shows how to connect to a database, assign unique ID values, retrieve rows, change data, escape quotes, and log debugging information. Chapter 11 covers PHP's built-in sessions module, which lets you maintain information about a user as he moves from page to page on your web site. This chapter also highlights some of the security issues associated with sessions. Chapter 12 discusses all things XML: PHP 5's SimpleXML extension and revamped DOM functions, using XPath and XSLT, and reading and writing both RSS and Atom feeds. Chapter 13 explores topics useful to PHP applications that integrate with external web sites and client-side JavaScript such as retrieving remote URLs, cleaning up HTML, and responding to an Ajax request.

The next three chapters are all about network interaction. Chapter 14 details the ins and outs of consuming a web service'using an external REST, SOAP, or XML-RPC service from within your code. Chapter 15 handles the other side of the web services equation'serving up REST, SOAP, or XML-RPC requests to others. Both chapters discuss WSDL, authentication, headers, and error handling. Chapter 16 discusses other network services such as sending email messages, using LDAP, and doing DNS lookups.

The next section of the book is a series of chapters on features and extensions of PHP that help you build applications that are robust, secure, user-friendly, and efficient. Chpater 17 shows you how to create graphics, with recipes on drawing text, lines, polygons, and curves. Chapter 18 focuses on security topics such as avoiding session fixation and cross-site scripting, working with passwords, and encrypting data. Chapter 19 helps you make your applications globally friendly and includes recipes localizing text, dates and times, currency values, and images, as well as working with text in different character encodings, including UTF-8. Chapter 20 goes into detail on error handling, debugging techniques, and writing tests for your code. Chapter 21 explains how to compare the performance of two functions and provides tips on getting your programs to run at maximum speed. Chapter 22 covers regular expressions, including capturing text inside of HTML tags, calling a PHP function from inside a regular expression, and using greedy and nongreedy matching.

Chapters 23 and 24 cover the filesystem. Chapter 23 focuses on files: opening and closing them, using temporary files, locking file, sending compressed files, and processing the contents of files. Chapter 24 deals with directories and file metadata, with recipes on changing file permissions and ownership, moving or deleting a file, and processing all files in a directory.
Last, there are two chapters on topics that extend the reach of what PHP can do. Chapter 25 covers using PHP outside of web programming. Its recipes cover command-line topics such as parsing program arguments and reading passwords. Chapter 26 covers PEAR (the PHP Extension and Application Repository) and PECL (the PHP Extension Community Library). PEAR is a collection of PHP code that provides functions and extensions to PHP. PECL is a similar collection, but of extensions to PHP written in C. We use PEAR and PECL modules throughout the book and Chapter 26 shows you how to install and upgrade them.

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Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL - by Kevin Yank

link : http://safari.oreilly.com/0975240218...5240218-PREF-2
What's In This Book

This book comprises the following 12 chapters. Read them in order from beginning to end to gain a complete understanding of the subject, or skip around if you need a refresher on a particular topic.

Chapter 1: Installation

Before you can start building your database-driven Web presence, you must first ensure that you have the right tools for the job. In this first chapter, I'll tell you where to obtain the two essential components you'll need: the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database management system. I'll step you through the setup procedures on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and show you how to test that PHP is operational on your Web server.

Chapter 2: Getting Started with MySQL

Although I'm sure you'll be anxious to get started building dynamic Web pages, I'll begin with an introduction to databases in general, and the MySQL relational database management system in particular. If you've never worked with a relational database before, this should definitely be an enlightening chapter that will whet your appetite for things to come! In the process, we'll build up a simple database to be used in later chapters.

Chapter 3: Getting Started with PHP

Here's where the fun really starts. In this chapter, I'll introduce you to the PHP scripting language, which can easily be used to build dynamic Web pages that present up-to-the-moment information to your visitors. Readers with previous programming experience will probably be able to get away with a quick skim of this chapter, as I explain the essentials of the language from the ground up. This is a must-read chapter for beginners, however, as the rest of this book relies heavily on the basic concepts presented here.

Chapter 4: Publishing MySQL Data on the Web

In this chapter we bring together PHP and MySQL, which you'll have seen separately in the previous chapters, to create some of your first database-driven Web pages. We'll explore the basic techniques of using PHP to retrieve information from a database and display it on the Web in real time. I'll also show you how to use PHP to create Web-based forms for adding new entries to, and modifying existing information in, a MySQL database on-the-fly.

Chapter 5: Relational Database Design

Although we'll have worked with a very simple sample database in the previous chapters, most database-driven Websites require the storage of more complex forms of data than we'll have dealt with so far. Far too many database-driven Website designs are abandoned midstream, or are forced to start again from the beginning, because of mistakes made early on, during the design of the database structure. In this critical chapter, I'll teach the essential principles of good database design, emphasizing the importance of data normalization. If you don't know what that means, then this is definitely an important chapter for you to read!

Chapter 6: A Content Management System

In many ways the climax of the book, this chapter is the big payoff for all you frustrated site builders who are tired of updating hundreds of pages whenever you need to make a change to a site's design. I'll walk you through the code for a basic content management system that allows you to manage a database of jokes, their categories, and their authors. A system like this can be used to manage simple content on your Website; just a few modifications, and you'll have a Web administration system that will have your content providers submitting content for publication on your site in no time—all without having to know a shred of HTML!

Chapter 7: Content Formatting and Submission

Just because you're implementing a nice, easy tool to allow site administrators to add content to your site without their knowing HTML, doesn't mean you have to restrict that content to plain, unformatted text. In this chapter, I'll show you some neat tweaks you can make to the page that displays the contents of your database—tweaks that allow it to incorporate simple formatting such as bold or italicized text, among other things. I'll also show you a simple way safely to make a content submission form directly available to your content providers, so that they can submit new content directly into your system for publication, pending an administrator's approval.

Chapter 8: MySQL Administration

While MySQL is a good, simple database solution for those who don't need many frills, it does have some complexities of its own that you'll need to understand if you're going to rely on a MySQL database to store your content. In this section, I'll teach you how to perform backups of, and manage access to, your MySQL database. In addition to a couple of inside tricks (like what to do if you forget your MySQL password), I'll explain how to repair a MySQL database that has become damaged in a server crash.

Chapter 9: Advanced SQL Queries

In Chapter 5 we saw what was involved in modelling complex relationships between pieces of information in a relational database like MySQL. Although the theory was quite sound, putting these concepts into practice requires that you learn a few more tricks of Structured Query Language. In this chapter, I'll cover some of the more advanced features of this language to get you juggling complex data like a pro.

Chapter 10: Binary Data

Some of the most interesting applications of database-driven Web design include some juggling of binary files. Online file storage services like the now-defunct iDrive are prime examples, but even a system as simple as a personal photo gallery can benefit from storing binary files (e.g. pictures) in a database for retrieval and management on the fly. In this chapter, I'll demonstrate how to speed up your Website by creating static copies of dynamic pages at regular intervals—using PHP, of course! With these basic file-juggling skills in hand, we'll go on to develop a simple online file storage and viewing system and learn the ins and outs of working with binary data in MySQL.

Chapter 11: Cookies and Sessions in PHP

One of the most hyped new features in PHP 4.0 was built-in support for sessions. But what are sessions? How are they related to cookies, a long-suffering technology for preserving stored data on the Web? What makes persistent data so important in current ecommerce systems and other Web applications? This chapter answers all those questions by explaining how PHP supports both cookies and sessions, and exploring the link between the two. At the end of this chapter, we'll develop a simple shopping cart system to demonstrate their use.

Chapter 12: Structured PHP Programming

Techniques to better structure your code are useful in all but the simplest of PHP projects. The PHP language offers many facilities to help you do this, and in this chapter, I'll explore some of the simple techniques that exist to keep your code manageable and maintainable. You'll learn to use include files to avoid having to write the same code more than once when it's needed by many pages of your site; I'll show you how to write your own functions to extend the built-in capabilities of PHP and to streamline the code that appears within your Web pages; we'll also dabble in the art of defining constants that control aspects of your Web applications' functionality. We'll then put all these pieces together to build an access control system for your Website. Its sophisticated structure will ensure that it can be used and reused on just about any site you decide to build

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