Advanced PHP for Web Professionals (Advanced Web Development Series)

Christopher Cosentino, Prentice Hall PTR

ISBN:0130085391, Edition: , 2002-11-08

Price: $39.99

• 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
  • If/Then 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 $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS
  • 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