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Advanced PHP for Web Professionals

ISBN: 0130085391
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 92

Authors: Christopher Cosentino

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• Advanced PHP for Web Professionals
• Table of contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Goal of This Book
• Who This Book Is For
• Getting the Code
• Acknowledgments
• The Fine Print
• Advanced Web Development Series
• About
• Chapter 1. PHP Review
• Overview
• PHP Syntax
• Variables
• Operators
• Arrays
• IfThen Statements
• Switch Statements
• For Loops
• Foreach Loops
• While Loops
• Do While Loops
• User-Defined Functions
• Object Oriented Programming with PHP
• phpinfo( )
• Additional Resources
• Chapter 2. Session Management
• Introduction to Session Management in PHP4
• Initial
• Starting a Session
• The Contents of Session Files
• Tracking Variables across Pages during a Session
• Unregistering Session Variables
• Destroying Sessions
• A Simple Session-Based Shopping Cart
• Chapter 3. Multiple Database Interaction
• Advanced Database Interaction in PHP4
• Database-Specific Functions in PHP
• DBX : PHP Support for Multiple Databases
• Creating Your Own Support for Multiple Databases
• Using Pear::DB
• Chapter 4. Better Form Processing
• Introduction to Better Forms
• Post and Get
• Souping Up the Script
• Form-Field Checking
• Using Array and Array
• Putting It All Together
• Variable Variables
• Chapter 5. Using What You Have Learned : A Simple Shopping Cart
• Introduction
• Features of the Shopping Cart
• Setting It Up
• The Code
• Chapter 6. Working with Files
• Overview
• Opening and Closing Files
• Putting It to Use
• Data Mining
• Parsing Large Files
• Chapter 7. PHP Authentication Schemes
• User Authentication Overview
• Generating Passwords
• Authenticating Users Against Text Files
• Authenticating Users by IP Address
• Authenticating Users Using HTTP Authentication
• Authenticating Users by Database Query
• Chapter 8. Error Management
• Overview
• Error Reporting
• Chapter 9. Using What You Have Learned : A Meeting Tracker Application
• Introduction
• Setting It Up
• The Code
• Chapter 10. PHP and XML
• Overview
• Creating an XML Parser
• Parsing and Transforming XML Documents
• Dumping Database Contents into an XML File
• Chapter 11. Generating Dynamic Graphics with PHP
• Overview
• The GD Library
• Enabling GD Support
• Generating Graphics with GD
• Chapter 12. PHPGTK
• Introduction to PHPGTK
• Installing PHPGTK
• Creating Basic GTK Objects
• Putting It All Together
• A Simple PHPGTK Application