Valade PHP 5 For Dummies

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7645-5662-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten, E-Book

Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular opensource Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understandFor Dummies style
* PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage hasgrown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past twoyears
* PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and canbe embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamicWeb pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; adatabase-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL,mSQL, Oracle, and other databases
* Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP's featuresmake it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for threeof the most common applications: interactive Web sites, databasestorage, and common operating system tasks

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valade, Janet

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Part I: Say Hello to the PHP Scripting Language.
Chapter 1: Getting to Know PHP.
Chapter 2: Setting Up the Environment.
Chapter 3: Creating Your First PHP Script.
Part II: Variables and Data.
Chapter 4: Using Variables in PHP Scripts.
Chapter 5: Working with Data.
Chapter 6: Storing Data in Groups by Using Arrays.
Part III: Basic PHP Programming.
Chapter 7: Controlling the Flow of the Script.
Chapter 8: Reusing PHP Code.
Chapter 9: Object-Oriented Programming Meets PHP.
Part IV: Common PHP Applications.
Chapter 10: The Basics of Web Applications.
Chapter 11: Other Web Applications.
Chapter 12: Storing Data with PHP.
Chapter 13: PHP and Your Operating System.
Chapter 14: PHP Extensions.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 15: Ten Things to Look For When Troubleshooting aScript.
Chapter 16: Ten PHP Resources You Can't Live Without.
Part VI: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Installing PHP.
Appendix B: Useful PHP Built-in Functions.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Janet Valade is the author of PHP & MySQL ForDummies. In addition, she has authored and revised chapters forseveral Linux books and for a Webmaster certification book.
Janet Valade has 20 years experience in the computing field. Sheworked as a Web designer/programmer for an engineering firm. Priorto that, Janet worked for several years in a university environmentas a systems analyst. During her tenure, she supervised theinstallation and operation of computing resources, designed anddeveloped a data archive, provided technical support for facultyand students, wrote numerous technical papers, and developed andpresented seminars and workshops on a variety of technology topics.