Php By Example

"PHP By Example" provides web-publishing oriented individuals the opportunity to learn a new, flexible Internet scripting language, PHP. This book will take the reader through step-by-step examples that will help them gain an understanding of PHP and explains concepts in simple, understandable tasks with multiple approaches to concepts that need clarification.

PHP is experiencing a renaissance, though it may be difficult to tell with all of the outdated PHP tutorials online.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

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.

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

With this book, Web designers who usually turn out static Websites with HTML and CSS can make the leap to the next level of Web development--full-fledged, dynamic, database-driven Websites using PHP and SQL.

Quickly master dynamic, database-driven Web development–no experience necessary! Even if you’re completely new to PHP, MySQL, and Web database development, this book will guide you through every step of building powerful, database-driven, dynamic Web sites. Direct from the world’s top scripting instructor, Ellie Quigley, PHP and MySQL by Example illuminates every concept with tested code examples, screen shots showing program output, and clear, line-by-line explanations. Classroom-tested in Ellie Quigley’s Silicon Valley training courses and at Marko Gargenta’s Marakana training company in San Francisco, this book takes you from the simplest PHP scripting and SQL querying techniques all the way to dynamic, database driven Web site construction with PHP and MySQL. From simple fill-in forms to program security and debugging, it’s the only PHP/MySQL book you’ll ever need! This book covers Complete PHP fundamentals, including operators, strings, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and more PHP QuickStart for more advanced readers–makes you productive with PHP in the space of just fifteen book pages Essential Web development techniques, from file handling to validating user input with regular expressions Powerful PHP features, including user-defined functions and self-processing PHP Forms Day-to-day MySQL administration A complete SQL tutorial for creating queries, retrieving data, and writing data with MySQL Session management and cookies Object Oriented PHP Best practices for using PHP and MySQL together Nearly 100,000 professionals and power users have relied on Ellie Quigley’s books to master scripting languages. With PHP and MySQL by Example, you can, too. And once you’ve become an expert, you’ll turn to this book constantly as your go-to source for reliable answers, solutions, and code. Lab Solutions Solutions to the end-of-chapter labs are available at www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0131875086.

This PHP tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning PHP himself. Topics include PHP script syntax; data types, variables, array, expressions, statements and functions; Web server integration; HTTP requests and controlling HTTP responses; sessions, cookies, and file uploads/downloads; MySQL database server access; files, directories, and ZIP archives; parsing HTML Documents; processing image files; SOAP extension; managing non-ASCII characters; classes and objects; using PHP on Windows, macOS and Linux; executing external programs on operating system. Updated in 2022 (Version v5.16) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/PHP.

"PHP and MySQL Everyday Apps For Dummies is a one-stop reference providing all you need to build dynamic, real-world, ready-to-use apps with the popular PHP (a scripting language) and MySQL (a database system) software. Information on each application includes a discussion of issues, structure of the database, code listings, and an explanation of the code. You can use these applications as is, modify them for use on your Web site, or build your own application using techniques described. If you want real-world Web apps you can use right away, this is the book for you"--Resource description page