Making Use Of Php

PHP has an edge over locked-in solutions such as JSP and ASP for most Web development work because it is a cross-platform technology. Surveys indicate that PHP is rapidly becoming the most widely used Web scripting language and PHP skills are now considered essential for many Web developers. * Explains why PHP is easier to learn than Perl or JavaScript and how it is useful in server-side development and administration tasks * Offers guidance to fully utilizing the possibilities of PHP * Enables Web designers and others with HTML skills to quickly gain essential abilities for site administration and content development

PHP is experiencing a renaissance, though it may be difficult to tell with all of the outdated PHP tutorials online. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how PHP has become a full-featured, mature language with object-orientation, namespaces, and a growing collection of reusable component libraries. Author Josh Lockhart—creator of PHP The Right Way, a popular initiative to encourage PHP best practices—reveals these new language features in action. You’ll learn best practices for application architecture and planning, databases, security, testing, debugging, and deployment. If you have a basic understanding of PHP and want to bolster your skills, this is your book. Learn modern PHP features, such as namespaces, traits, generators, and closures Discover how to find, use, and create PHP components Follow best practices for application security, working with databases, errors and exceptions, and more Learn tools and techniques for deploying, tuning, testing, and profiling your PHP applications Explore Facebook’s HVVM and Hack language implementations—and how they affect modern PHP Build a local development environment that closely matches your production server

PHP is a versatile language based on object-oriented programming concept. It is practiced by a huge community. PHP is the least complex and makes better applications if used in the right context. It supports some great frameworks like Zend, Laravel, and Symphony. Most beginners find PHP difficult because they either spend a long time learning all the things, or they are using poorly crafted online courses. To make PHP easier to learn, we extracted some niche topic of PHP and compiled them in simple to understand format in this small e-book. On top of it, the examples are made more interactive to help understand some advanced PHP topics. The best part of this e-book is the price is almost negligible. With this edition, beginners will learn to interpret PHP language in the nick of time. They will able to build a basic application on HTML, CSS, etc. without any peer guidance or external course. All the major concept of PHP are covered in this e-book. Once you know the tips and tricks, the book can be a guide for building Web-based services for mobile devices. You will be able to gain more knowledge about PHP functions and MySQL through it. Besides having limited coding language, you will become someone having a deeper understanding of PHP in no time. With this e-book, you soon can become the part of these huge base of PHP users like Facebook, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Wordpress, and so on. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 1. What is a scripting language? 2. Scripting VS Programming Language 3. What does PHP stand for? 4. Php Syntax 5. What is PHP used for & Market share 6. PHP vs ASP.NET VS JSP VS CFML Chapter 2: Introduction to XAMPP 1. What is XAMPP? 2. How to Download and Install XAMPP 3. XAMPP Control Panel 4. What is the best PHP IDE? 5. Introduction to Netbeans IDE 6. Creating a new PHP project using the Netbeans IDE Chapter 3: Data Types, Variables and Operators 1. Data Types 2. Variable 3. Variable Type Casting 4. Constant 5. Operators Chapter 4: Comments, Include & Require 1. Comments 2. Include & PHP Include_once 3. Require & PHP require_once 4. include vs require Chapter 5: Arrays 1. What is an Array? 2. Numeric Arrays 3. Associative Array 4. Multi-dimensional arrays 5. Arrays: Operators Chapter 6: Control structures 1. What is a control structure? 2. IF Else 3. PHP Loop 4. While Loop 5. Switch Case Chapter 7: Strings 1. What is a string? 2. Create Strings Using Double quotes 3. Heredoc 4. Nowdoc 5. String functions Chapter 8: Functions 1. What is a Function? 2. Built in Functions 3. String Functions 4. Numeric Functions 5. Date Function 6. Why use User Defined Functions? Chapter 9: Forms 1. What is form? 2. Create a form 3. POST method 4. GET method 5. GET vs POST Methods 6. Processing the registration form data Chapter 10: Cookies & Sessions 1. What is Cookies? 2. Creating Cookies 3. Retrieving the Cookie value 4. What is a Session? 5. Creating a Session Chapter 11: File Processing 1. What is a File? 2. File_exists Function 3. Fopen Function 4. Fwrite Function 5. Fgets Function 6. File_get_contents Function Chapter 12: Error Handling 1. What is an Exception? 2. PHP Error handling 3. Error handling examples 4. Difference between Errors and Exception 5. Multiple Exceptions Chapter 13: Regular Expression 1. What is a regular expressions? 2. Preg_match 3. Preg_split 4. Preg_replace 5. Meta characters 6. Explaining the pattern Chapter 14: MAIL 1. What is PHP mail? 2. Why/When to use the PHP mail 3. Simple Transmission Protocol 4. Sanitizing email user inputs 5. Secure Mail Chapter 15: Database Access 1. mysql_connect function 2. mysql_select_db function 3. mysql_query function 4. mysql_num_rows function 5. mysql_fetch_array function 6. Data Access Object PDO Chapter 16: OOPS 1. What is UML? 2. What is object oriented programming? 3. Creating a class 4. Inheritance implementation 5. Using the classes 6. Testing our application Chapter 17: Date 1. What is Date Function? 2. What is a TimeStamp? 3. PHP set Timezone Programmatically 4. Mktime Function 5. PHP Date function reference Chapter 18: Security Functions 1. What is a Security? 2. Potential security threats 3. PHP Application Security Best Practices 4. filter_var function 5. PHP Md5 and PHP sha1 Chapter 19: XML,DOM, Parsers 1. What is XML? 2. What is DOM? 3. XML Parsers 4. Creating the index page that reads the XML document 5. Creating an XML document using PHP Chapter 20: Sample Project 1. Opinion Polls 2. Database 3. Coding our application 4. Testing our application Chapter 21: PHP with Ajax 1. What is JavaScript? 2. What is XML? 3. What is Ajax? 4. Creating an Ajax application Chapter 22: Frameworks 1. What is a framework? 2. Introduction to PHP MVC framework 3. Porting the opinion poll application to CodeIgniter 4. Database configuration settings 5. Creating Our Model 6. Creating Our Views

This book enables readers to quickly develop a working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and PHP. The text emphasizes a hands-on approach to learning and makes extensive use of examples. A detailed science, engineering, or mathematics background is not required to understand the material, making the book ideally suitable for self-study or an introductory course in programming. Features: describes the creation and use of HTML documents; presents fundamental concepts of client-side and server-side programming languages; examines JavaScript and PHP implementation of arrays, built-in and user-defined methods and functions, math capabilities, and input processing with HTML forms; extends programming fundamentals to include reading and writing server-based files, command-line interfaces, and an introduction to GD graphics; appendices include a brief introduction to using a “pseudocode” approach to organizing solutions to computing problems; includes a Glossary and an extensive set of programming exercises.

Learn everything about the dynamic power of PHP and MySQL in real-world applications with the practical information and step-by-step instructions in PHP and MySQL: Create - Modify – Reuse. The authors, experts in tune with common web development tasks, will guide you through several projects that are complete, tested, and ready to be implemented, so that you can understand by doing. Understand all aspects of design, such as portability, design flow, and integration, and become proficient at solving problems that developers face in everyday circumstances.

This is a comprehensive guide to PHP, a simple yet powerful language for creating dynamic web content. It is a detailed reference to the language and its applications, including such topics as form processing, sessions, databases, XML, and graphics and Covers PHP 4, the latest version.

Introduces techniques for building applications that integrate large databases with web interfaces. Using a three-tier architecture, the book focuses on the middle tier and the application logic that brings together the fundamentally different client and database tiers. The authors explain the principles behind searching, browsing, storing user data, validating user input, managing user transactions, and security. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.