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PHP Developer's Cookbook, Second Edition
By Sterling  Hughes
Publisher	: Sams Publishing
Pub Date	: December 01, 2001
ISBN	: 0-672-32325-7
Pages	: 504
	Copyright
		Foreword
		About the Authors
		Acknowledgments
		Tell Us What You Think!
		Introduction
			Purpose
			How to Use This Book
			Chapter Summary
			DB.php and Its Use in This Book
			The History of PHP
			Enter PHP 4
			Improved Performance
			Improved Object-Oriented Support
			Improved Array-Handling Support
			Integrated Sessions Support
			Java Integration
			Output Buffering Support
			Many New Extensions
			PEAR
		Part I:   Language Constructs and Techniques
			Chapter  1.   Manipulating Strings
				Section 1.0.   Introduction
				Section 1.1.   Dissecting Strings
				Section 1.2.   Using the Ternary Operator
				Section 1.3.   Swapping Variables
				Section 1.4.   Converting ASII Codes into Characters
				Section 1.5.   Splitting a String by Characters
				Section 1.6.   Reversing Parts of a String
				Section 1.7.   Converting the Case of a String
				Section 1.8.   Removing Whitespace from a String
				Section 1.9.   Escaping Special Characters in a String
				Section 1.10.   Reading a Comma-Delimited Text File
				Section 1.11.   Parsing a URL
				Section 1.12.   Fuzzy Matching
				Section 1.13.   Creating a Unique Identifier
				Section 1.14.   Encrypting a String
				Section 1.15.   Converting Between Cyrillic Character Sets
			Chapter  2.   Working with Numbers, Dates, and Times
				Section 2.0.   Introduction
				Section 2.1.   Checking Whether a Variable Is a Valid Number
				Section 2.2.   Working on a Series of Numbers
				Section 2.3.   Working with Numbers That Are Not Float or Integer
				Section 2.4.   Rounding Arbitrary-Precision Numbers
				Section 2.5.   Converting Numbers Between Different Bases
				Section 2.6.   Finding the Log of a Number
				Section 2.7.   Finding the Binary Representation of a Number
				Section 2.8.   Converting Between Arabic and Roman Numerals
				Section 2.9.   Validating Credit Card Numbers
				Section 2.10.   Formatting Numbers
				Section 2.11.   Converting Between Radians and Degrees
				Section 2.12.   Calculating Cosines, Sines, and Tangents
				Section 2.13.   Generating Random Numbers
				Section 2.14.   Generating Unique Random Numbers
				Section 2.15.   Weighting Random Numbers
				Section 2.16.   Loading Today's Date into an Array
				Section 2.17.   Checking the Validity of a Date
				Section 2.18.   Determining Date Intervals
				Section 2.19.   Finding the Date and Time for Different Locales
				Section 2.20.   Formatting Timestamps
				Section 2.21.   Parsing Dates and Times from Strings
				Section 2.22.   Performing Benchmarks
				Section 2.23.   Halting Program Execution
			Chapter  3.   Using Arrays
				Section 3.0.   Introduction
				Section 3.1.   Declaring an Array
				Section 3.2.   Printing Out an Array
				Section 3.3.   Eliminating Duplicate Elements
				Section 3.4.   Enlarging or Shrinking an Array
				Section 3.5.   Merging Arrays
				Section 3.6.   Iteratively Processing Elements in an Array
				Section 3.7.   Accessing the Current Element in an Array
				Section 3.8.   Accessing Different Areas of an Array
				Section 3.9.   Searching an Array
				Section 3.10.   Searching for the Different Elements in Two Arrays
				Section 3.11.   Randomizing the Elements of an Array
				Section 3.12.   Determining the Union, Intersection, or Difference Between Two Arrays
				Section 3.13.   Sorting an Array
				Section 3.14.   Sorting Sensibly
				Section 3.15.   Reversing Order
				Section 3.16.   Perl-Based Array Manipulation Features
			Chapter  4.   PHP's Built-in Arrays and Constants
				Section 4.1.   Working with File Constants
				Section 4.2.   PHP's OS and Version Constants
				Section 4.3.   Setting Breakpoints by Using PHP's Error Constants
				Section 4.4.   Defining Your Own PHP Constants
				Section 4.5.   Working with PHP Globals
				Section 4.6.   Accessing Data Through PHP's Built-in Arrays
			Chapter  5.   Matching Data with Regular Expressions
				Section 5.0.   Introduction
				Regular Expression Basics
				Section 5.1.   Assigning the Results of a Pattern Replacement
				Section 5.2.   Using Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions in PHP
				Section 5.3.   Incompatibilities Between the PCRE Library and Perl Regular Expressions
				Section 5.4.   Matching over Multiple Lines
				Section 5.5.   Finding a Specific Occurrence of a Match
				Section 5.6.   Working with Delimited Records
				Section 5.7.   Extracting Specific Lines
				Section 5.8.   Checking Characters
				Section 5.9.   Validating Web Data
				Section 5.10.   Validating an E-mail Address
				Section 5.11.   Checking the Syntax of a Regular Expression
				Section 5.12.   Checking for Duplicate Words
				Section 5.13.   Abbreviating Input
			Chapter  6.   Handling Files
				Section 6.0.   Introduction
				Section 6.1.   Checking Whether a File Exists
				Section 6.2.   Checking File Permissions
				Section 6.3.   Creating a Temporary File
				Section 6.4.   Storing a File into Your Program
				Section 6.5.   Opening a File
				Section 6.6.   Handling Binary Data Safely
				Section 6.7.   Flushing the Cache
				Section 6.8.   Locking Files
				Section 6.9.   Getting the Free Space Available on a Specified Drive
				Section 6.10.   Displaying a Textfile to the User
				Section 6.11.   Manipulating Standard I/O Streams
				Section 6.12.   Reading a File Line-by-Line
				Section 6.13.   Working with a File Word-by-Word
				Section 6.14.   Processing a File in Reverse
				Section 6.15.   Parsing a File with Pattern Separators
				Section 6.16.   Changing a Specific Record
				Section 6.17.   Accessing Fixed-Length Records
				Section 6.18.   Extracting a Single Line from a File
				Section 6.19.   Truncating a File
				Section 6.20.   Counting the Number of Lines in a File
				Section 6.21.   Extracting a Random Line from a File
				Section 6.22.   Randomizing Lines and Words
				Section 6.23.   Creating Configuration Files
			Chapter  7.   Working with Files in Directories
				Section 7.0.   Introduction
				Section 7.1.   Working with Timestamps
				Section 7.2.   Removing a File
				Section 7.3.   Copying or Moving a File
				Section 7.4.   Keeping Track of Filenames
				Section 7.5.   Parsing the Parts of a Filename
				Section 7.6.   Loading All Files in a Directory into an Array
				Section 7.7.   Searching a Filesystem
				Section 7.8.   Processing a Directory File-by-File
				Section 7.9.   Recursively Deleting a Directory
				Section 7.10.   Creating a Search Engine
			Chapter  8.   Functions
				Section 8.0.   Introduction
				Section 8.1.   Passing a Default Value to a Function
				Section 8.2.   Accessing Variables Outside a Function
				Section 8.3.   Returning Values from a Function
				Section 8.4.   Passing Arguments by Reference
				Section 8.5.   Retaining a Variable's Value Between Function Calls
				Section 8.6.   Returning More Than One Value from a Function
				Section 8.7.   Declaring Functions Dynamically
				Section 8.8.   Dynamically Creating Anonymous Functions
				Section 8.9.   Calling Functions Indirectly
				Section 8.10.   Fetching an Arbitrary Number of Parameters
			Chapter  9.   Classes
				Section 9.0.   Introduction
				Section 9.1.   Creating a Class
				Section 9.2.   Accessing Variables from Within a Class
				Section 9.3.   Inheritance
				Section 9.4.   Making Variables or Functions Public and Private
				Section 9.5.   Creating a Constructor
				Section 9.6.   Returning a Different Object from a Constructor
				Section 9.7.   Creating a Class Destructor
				Section 9.8.   Using Functions in a Class Without Initializing an Object
				Section 9.9.   Indirectly Accessing a Method of the Parent Class
				Section 9.10.   Returning an Error Object on Failure
			Chapter  10.   Maintaining Sessions with PHP
				Section 10.0.   Introduction
				Section 10.1.   Creating a Session Variable with PHP
				Section 10.2.   Saving Sessions Using a Database
				Section 10.3.   Setting the Session Name
				Section 10.4.   Setting and Getting Cookie Parameters
				Section 10.5.   Unregistering a Variable in a Session
				Section 10.6.   Deleting All the Session Variables
				Section 10.7.   Using Objects As Session Variables
				Section 10.8.   Encode That Data
				Section 10.9.   Creating a Shopping Cart Using Sessions and PHP
				Section 10.10.   Serialization
				Section 10.11.   WDDX Serialization
				Section 10.12.   WDDX Deserialization
			Chapter  11.   Interacting with Web Pages and Servers
				Section 11.0.   Introduction
				Section 11.1.   Fetching a Web Page
				Section 11.2.   Performing an SSL Transaction
				Section 11.3.   Performing an HTTP POST Request
				Section 11.4.   Performing an HTTP File Upload
				Section 11.5.   Sending Cookies with Your Request
				Section 11.6.   Excluding or Including the Header from a cURL Transfer
				Section 11.7.   Connecting Through a Proxy Server
				Section 11.8.   Getting Information Regarding a cURL Transfer
				Section 11.9.   Interacting with Frames
				Section 11.10.   Extracting All the URLs from a Web Page
				Section 11.11.   Finding Stale and Fresh Links
				Section 11.12.   Getting New Links from a Web Page
				Section 11.13.   Mirroring a Web Page
				Section 11.14.   Parsing and Formatting a Log File
		Part II:   Databases
			Chapter  12.   Creating a Database-Independent API with PHP
				Section 12.0.   Introduction
				Section 12.1.   The Glue
				Section 12.2.   The MySQL Module
				Section 12.3.   The mSQL Module
				Section 12.4.   The Oracle Module
				Section 12.5.   The MSSQL Module
				Section 12.6.   The ODBC Module
				Section 12.7.   The PostgreSQL Module
				Section 12.8.   The InterBase Module
				Section 12.9.   The Sybase Module
		Part III:   Going Outside PHP
			Chapter  13.   Interfacing with Other Programs and Languages
				Section 13.0.   Introduction
				Section 13.1.   Capturing the Output of Another Program
				Section 13.2.   Printing the Output of a Program
				Section 13.3.   Opening a Pipe to Another Program
				Section 13.4.   Working with Sockets
				Section 13.5.   Working with COM Objects
				Section 13.6.   Accessing Predefined Java Methods and Classes
				Section 13.7.   Accessing Your Own Custom Java Methods and Classes
			Chapter  14.   Communicating with Sockets
				Section 14.0.   Introduction
				Section 14.1.   A TCP Client
				Section 14.2.   A TCP Server
				Section 14.3.   Reading and Writing to Sockets
				Section 14.4.   A UDP Client
				Section 14.5.   A UDP Server
				Section 14.6.   UNIX Domain Sockets
				Section 14.7.   Handling Multiple IP Addresses
				Section 14.8.   Nonblocking Sockets
				Section 14.9.   Reading and Writing I/O Vectors
				Section 14.10.   Controlling Data Transfer Timeout
				Section 14.11.   Getting Socket Status
			Chapter  15.   Handling E-mail
				Section 15.0.   Introduction
				Section 15.1.   Opening an IMAP Mailbox
				Section 15.2.   Checking Whether an IMAP Stream Is Still Active
				Section 15.3.   Converting Messages to a Readable Format
				Section 15.4.   Sending E-mail
				Section 15.5.   Sending Attachments with PHP
				Section 15.6.   Sending Binary Attachments
				Section 15.7.   Sending HTML E-mail
				Section 15.8.   Getting the Size of a Message
				Section 15.9.   Parsing Mail Headers
			Chapter  16.   Working with SNMP Objects
				Section 16.0.   Introduction
				Section 16.1.   Setting an SNMP Object
				Section 16.2.   Getting an SNMP Object
				Section 16.3.   Fetching All SNMP Objects into an Array
			Chapter  17.   LDAP
				Section 17.0.   Introduction
				Section 17.1.   Adding an Entry to an LDAP Server
				Section 17.2.   Removing an Entry from an LDAP Server
				Section 17.3.   Executing a Query and Getting the Results
				Section 17.4.   Freeing an LDAP Result Set
				Section 17.5.   Performing a Tree Search
				Section 17.6.   Sorting Search Results
		Part IV:   Generating Other Languages
			Chapter  18.   Creating and Managing Images
				Section 18.1.   Creating an Image with GD
				Section 18.2.   Opening a Preexisting Image
				Section 18.4.   Adding Text to Images
				Section 18.5.   Getting the Color of a Certain Part of an Image
				Section 18.6.   Getting the Total Number of Colors in an Image
				Section 18.7.   Making a GIF/PNG Transparent
				Section 18.8.   Copy One Part of an Image to Another
				Section 18.9.   Drawing Rectangles
				Section 18.10.   Drawing Polygons
				Section 18.11.   Drawing an Arc
				Section 18.12.   Making an Image Interlaced
				Section 18.13.   Dynamic Buttons
				Section 18.14.   Using TrueType Fonts
			Chapter  19.   HTML
				Section 19.0.   Introduction
				Section 19.1.   Stripping HTML Tags
				Section 19.2.   Converting ASCII to HTML
				Section 19.3.   Generating <select> Lists
				Section 19.4.   Generating JavaScript Rollovers
				Section 19.5.   Creating HTML Templates
			Chapter  20.   XML
				Section 20.0.   Introduction
				Section 20.1.   Error Handling
				Section 20.2.   Parsing a Simple XML Document
				Section 20.3.   Parsing an XML Document into an Array
				Section 20.4.   Mapping XML Tags
				Section 20.5.   Setting Up an External Reference Entity Handler
				Section 20.6.   Searching XML
				Section 20.7.   Saving Memory
				Section 20.8.   Setting and Getting Options
				Section 20.9.   Parsing Using the DOM-XML Functions
				Section 20.10.   Building an XML Document
				Section 20.11.   Transforming XML with an XSL Template
				Section 20.12.   Filtering All Output Through an XSL File
		Part V:   The Zend API
			Chapter  21.   Zend API
				Section 21.0.   Introduction
				Section 21.1.   Getting Arguments
				Section 21.2.   Modifying Function Arguments
				Section 21.3.   Returning Strings or Numbers from a Function
				Section 21.4.   Returning Arrays and Objects from Functions
				Section 21.5.   Adding a Function to PHP
				Section 21.6.   Creating Resource Identifiers
				Section 21.7.   Fetching Resource Identifiers
				Section 21.8.   Looping Through Arrays
				Section 21.9.   Creating a PHP Module
				Section 21.10.   Adding Your File to the PHP Installation
			Appendix A.   PHP Installation
			Appendix B.   Troubleshooting with PHP
				Common Errors and What They Mean
				Techniques to Cut Down on Errors and Bugs
			Appendix C.   PHP Online Resources
				The Official PHP Web Site
				The Zend Web Site
				PHPBuilder
				PHPWizard.net
				The PHP Class Repository
				Weberdev
				DevShed
			Appendix D.   Migrating to PHP 4
				Static Variable and Default Argument Initializers Accept Only Scalar Values
				The Scopes of break and continue Are Local to That of an Included File, or an eval 'd String
				A return Statement from a require d File Does Not Work
				Unset Is Now a Statement, Not a Function
				"{$" Is Not Supported in Strings
		Index