Stobart / Vassileiou PHP and MySQL Manual

Simple, yet Powerful Web Programming
2004
ISBN: 978-0-85729-404-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 589 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Springer Professional Computing

PHP is rapidly becoming the language of choice for dynamic Web development, in particular for e-commerce and on-line database systems. It is open source software and easy to install, and can be used with a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and UNIX.

This comprehensive manual covers the basic core of the language, with lots of practical examples of some of the more recent and useful features available in version 5.0. MySQL database creation and development is also covered, as it is the developer database most commonly used alongside PHP. It will be an invaluable book for professionals wanting to use PHP to develop their own dynamic web pages.

Key Topics:

- Basic Language Constructs

- Manipulating Arrays and Strings

- Errors and Buffering

- Graphic Manipulation

- PDF Library Extension

- MySQL Database Management

- Classes and Objects Concepts

Features and Benefits:

Explains how to use PHP to its full extent - covering the latest features and functions of PHP version 5.0, including the use of object-oriented programming

Describes how to link a database to a web site, using the MySQL database management system

Shows how to connect PHP to other systems and provides many examples, so that you can create powerful and dynamic web pages and applications

Contains lots of illustrated, practical, real-world examples - including an e-commerce application created in PHP using many of the features described within the book

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stobart, Simon

Vassileiou, Mike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One - Getting Started Chapter 2 Introduction and overview to PHP Chapter 3 Environment Installation, Help and Assistance Chapter 4 Your first PHP Program Chapter 5 PHP fundamentals Part Two - Basic Language Constructs Chapter 6 PHP Variables and types Chapter 7 Boolean, Integer and Floating Point Types Chapter 8 Strings Chapter 9 Predefined PHP Variables Chapter 10 Expressions, Operands and Operators Chapter 11 If and Switch constructs Chapter 12 Loops Chapter 13 Functions and Includes Chapter 14 Arrays Chapter 15 Dates, Times and Random Numbers Part Three - Manipulating Arrays and Strings Chapter 16 Array Manipulation Chapter 17 String Manipulation Part Four - User Interaction Chapter 18 Interacting with the User Chapter 19 Form Validation and Data Retention Chapter 20 Security Issues Chapter 21 Emailing Users Part Five - Retaining Data across pages Chapter 22 Cookies Chapter 23 Session Management Part Six - Handling Errors and Buffering Chapter 24 Error Handling Chapter 25 Output Buffering Part Seven - File Handling Chapter 26 Reading and Writing to Files Chapter 27 More File Handling Chapter 28 File Upload Using Forms Part Eight - Graphics Chapter 29 Simple Graphic Manipulation Chapter 30 GD Library Graphics Chapter 31 A Useful Dynamic Image Part Nine - PDF Library Extension Chapter 32 Creating PDF Documents Part Ten - MySQL Database Management Chapter 33 Databases and table design Chapter 34 MySQL Database and PHPMyAdmin installation Chapter 35 Creating Databases using PHPMyAdmin Chapter 36 Accessing MySQL using PHP Part Eleven - Classes and Objects concepts Chapter 37 Classes and Objects Chapter 38 Class Inheritance Part Twelve - An e-Commerce Application Chapter 39 3:Phase E-Commerce System Chapter 40 E-Commerce Administration