Programmers wishing to quickly pick up Web and/or database connectivity; Designers looking to upgrade their technical skills from client-side HTML/Javascript; Server-side scripters (ASP, Perl) seeking to add another tool to their arsenals. This Bible reaches all three groups by taking a graduated approach from the basics to advanced topics, and offers copious real-life examples and case studies. Readers must be very comfortable with HTML, but need not be familiar with any other scripting or programming language to use this book.
Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: PHP: The Basics.
Chapter 1: Why PHP and MySQL?
Chapter 2: Server-Side Web Scripting.
Chapter 3: Getting Started with PHP.
Chapter 4: Adding PHP to HTML.
Chapter 5: Syntax and Variables.
Chapter 6: Control and Functions.
Chapter 7: Passing Information between Pages.
Chapter 8: Strings.
Chapter 9: Arrays and Array Functions.
Chapter 10: Numbers.
Chapter 11: Basic PHP Gotchas.
Part II: PHP and MySQL.
Chapter 12: Choosing a Database for PHP.
Chapter 13: SQL Tutorial.
Chapter 14: MySQL Database Administration.
Chapter 15: PHP/MySQL Functions.
Chapter 16: Displaying Queries in Tables.
Chapter 17: Building Forms from Queries.
Chapter 18: PHP/MySQL Efficiency.
Chapter 19: PHP/MySQL Gotchas.
Part III: Advanced Features and Techniques.
Chapter 20: Object-Oriented Programming with PHP.
Chapter 21: Advanced Array Functions.
Chapter 22: String and Regular Expression Functions.
Chapter 23: Filesystem and System Functions.
Chapter 24: Sessions, Cookies, and HTTP.
Chapter 25: Types and Type Conversions.
Chapter 26: Advanced Use of Functions.
Chapter 27: Mathematics.
Chapter 28: PEAR.
Chapter 29: Security.
Chapter 30: Configuration.
Chapter 31: Exceptions and Error Handling.
Chapter 32: Debugging.
Chapter 33: Style.
Part IV: Connections.
Chapter 34: PostgreSQL.
Chapter 35: Oracle.
Chapter 36: PEAR Database Functions.
Chapter 37: E-mail.
Chapter 38: PHP and JavaScript.
Chapter 39: PHP and Java.
Chapter 40: PHP and XML.
Chapter 41: Web Services.
Chapter 42: Graphics.
Part V: Case Studies.
Chapter 43: Weblogs.
Chapter 44: User Authentication.
Chapter 45: A User-Rating System.
Chapter 46: A Trivia Game.
Chapter 47: Converting Static HTML Sites.
Chapter 48: Data Visualization with Venn Diagrams.
Appendix A: PHP for C Programmers.
Appendix B: PHP for Perl Hackers.
Appendix C: PHP for HTML Coders.
Appendix D: PHP Resources.
Index.
Tim Converse (San Mateo, CA) is a Software Engineer at Inktomi Corporation which is now owned by Yahoo. He has programmed more than a dozen years with experience in Lisp, C, C++, Java and web techniques including PHP. He has an MS in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Chicago, where he taught several programming classes.
Joyce Park (San Mateo, CA) is a web developer in the Silicon Valley, and has worked on personal, commercial, and Open Source PHP projects of all sizes and strategies including the co-lead of the Mod-pubsub project. She will be speaking at ApacheCon in the fall of 2003.
Clark Morgan (Jacksonville, FL) is an experienced programmer who creates and administers databases with websites using PHP and MySQL for Fusion Computing and Media.