PHP 5 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide

PHP is currently one of the most popular server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language on the Web. It's specifically designed for Web site creation and is frequently being used to replace the functionality created by Perl to write CGI scripts. PHP's popularity and easier-to-learn appeal has spawned a new breed of programmer, those who are only familiar with and only use PHP.
 
Sharpen your PHP skills with the fully revised and updated, PHP 5 Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide! Filled with fifteen chapters of step-by-step content and written by best-selling author and PHP programmer, Larry Ullman, this guide teaches specific topics in direct, focused segments, shows how PHP is used in real-world applications, features popular and most-asked-about scripts, and details those technologies that will be more important in the future. You'll learn about object-oriented programming, PHP interactions with a server, XML, RSS, Networking with PHP, image and PDF generation, and more.

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Larry Ullman is Lead PHP Programmer and Directory of Digital Media Technology at DMC Insights, Inc., a firm specializing in information technology. He is the author of several books on PHP, MySQL, Web development, and other programming languages. In addition to writing, he develops dynamic Web applications, conducts training seminars, and teaches PHP programming for the Web through the University of California at Berkeley Extension Online.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Advanced PHP Programming
    Code Structure and Documentation
    Function Recursion and Static Variables
    References and Functions
    PERL-Compatible Regular Expressions

Chapter 2: Basic Object-Oriented Programming
    Defining a Class
    Creating an Object
    Creating Constructors
    Object Inheritance
    Using Class Functions Without Instances
    Serializing Objects
    Destroying Objects
    
Chapter 3: Developing Web Applications
    Catching Exceptions
    Using PEAR's HTML_QuickFOrm
    Modularizing a Web Site
    Error Logging and Reporting
    Browser Detection

Chapter 4: Database Concepts
    Database Design and Normalization
    Storing Sessions in a Database
    Storing BLOBs in a Database
    Using Prepared Statements
    Database Encryption
    Working with Bound Variables

Chapter 5: Security
    Validating Forms
    Validating Forms with JavaScript
    Encryption with Mcrypt
    HTTP Authentication
    Web Server Security
    Shared Server Security
    Encorporating Captcha with PEAR
    Using PEAR Auth

Chapter 6: Advanced OOP
    Inheritance
    Access Control
    Polymorphism
    Encapsulation
    Overloading

Chapter 7: E-Commerce
    Creating the Database
    Administration
    Showing the Products Online
    Writing a Shopping Cart
    Handling Commerical Transactions

Chapter 8: Image Generation
    Creating a Simple Image
    Using TrueType Fonts
    Creating a Database-Driven Graph
    Saving and Building on Existing Images

Chapter 9: Creating PDFs
    Creating a Simple PDF
    Adding Text to PDFs
    Drawing Shapes
    Using Images
    Creating Multiple-Page PDFs

Chapter 10: XML and PHP
    What is XML?
    XML Syntax
    Document Type Definitions
    Parsing XML With PHP
    XML Error Handling

Chapter 11: Networking with PHP
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