PHP Cookbook 2nd Edition

Description

When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook's unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges.

PHP Cookbook has a wealth of solutions for problems that you'll face regularly. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, this guide contains practical examples -- or "recipes" -- for anyone who uses this scripting language to generate dynamic web content. Updated for PHP 5, this book provides solutions that explain how to use the new language features in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new PDO data access extension. New sections on classes and objects are included, along with new material on processing XML, building web services with PHP, and working with SOAP/REST architectures. With each recipe, the authors include a discussion that explains the logic and concepts underlying the solution.

CONTENTS:

PrefaceChapter 1: StringsChapter 2: NumbersChapter 3: Dates and TimesChapter 4: ArraysChapter 5: VariablesChapter 6: FunctionsChapter 7: Classes and ObjectsChapter 8: Web BasicsChapter 9: FormChapter 10: Database AccessChapter 11: Sessions and Data PersistenceChapter 12: XMLChapter 13: Web AutomationChapter 14: Consuming Web ServicesChapter 15: Building Web ServicesChapter 16: Internet ServicesChapter 17: GraphicsChapter 18: Security and EncryptionChapter 19: Internationalization and LocalizationChapter 20: Error Handling, Debugging, and?TestingChapter 21: Performance Tuning and Load TestingChapter 22: Regular ExpressionsChapter 23: FilesChapter 24: DirectoriesChapter 25: Command-Line PHPChapter 26: PEAR and PECLColophon