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Core PHP Programming, Third Edition
By Leon Atkinson

Publisher	: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date	: August 05, 2003
ISBN	: 0-13-046346-9
Pages	: 1104

Praise for Core PHP Programming

Prentice Hall PTR Core Series

About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. Programming with PHP

Chapter 1. An Introduction to PHP

Section 1.1. The Origins of PHP

Section 1.2. PHP Is Better Than Its Alternatives

Section 1.3. Interfaces to External Systems

Section 1.4. How PHP Works with the Web Server

Section 1.5. Hardware and Software Requirements

Section 1.6. What a PHP Script Looks Like

Section 1.7. Saving Data for Later

Section 1.8. Receiving User Input

Section 1.9. Choosing Between Alternatives

Section 1.10. Repeating Code

Chapter 2. Variables, Operators, and Expressions

Section 2.1. A Top-Down View

Section 2.2. Data Types

Section 2.3. Variables

Section 2.4. Constants

Section 2.5. Operators

Section 2.6. Building Expressions

Chapter 3. Control Statements

Section 3.1. The if Statement

Section 3.2. The ? Operator

Section 3.3. The switch Statement

Section 3.4. Loops

Section 3.5. exit, die, and return

Section 3.6. Exceptions

Section 3.7. Declare

Chapter 4. Functions

Section 4.1. Declaring a Function

Section 4.2. The return Statement

Section 4.3. Scope

Section 4.4. Static Variables

Section 4.5. Arguments

Section 4.6. Recursion

Section 4.7. Dynamic Function Calls

Chapter 5. Arrays

Section 5.1. Single-Dimensional Arrays

Section 5.2. Indexing Arrays

Section 5.3. Initializing Arrays

Section 5.4. Multidimensional Arrays

Section 5.5. Casting Arrays

Section 5.6. The + Operator

Section 5.7. Referencing Arrays Inside Strings

Chapter 6. Classes and Objects

Section 6.1. Object-Oriented Programming

Section 6.2. The PHP 5 Object Model

Section 6.3. Defining a Class

Section 6.4. Constructors and Destructors

Section 6.5. Cloning

Section 6.6. Accessing Properties and Methods

Section 6.7. Static Class Members

Section 6.8. Access Types

Section 6.9. Binding

Section 6.10. Abstract Methods and Abstract Classes

Section 6.11. User-Level Overloading

Section 6.12. Class Autoloading

Section 6.13. Object Serialization

Section 6.14. Namespaces

Section 6.15. The Evolution of the Zend Engine

Chapter 7. I/O and Disk Access

Section 7.1. HTTP Connections

Section 7.2. Writing to the Browser

Section 7.3. Output Buffering

Section 7.4. Environment Variables

Section 7.5. Getting Input from Forms

Section 7.6. Passing Arrays in Forms

Section 7.7. Cookies

Section 7.8. File Uploads

Section 7.9. Reading and Writing to Files

Section 7.10. Sessions

Section 7.11. The include and require Functions

Section 7.12. Don't Trust User Input

Part II. Functional Reference

Chapter 8. Browser I/O

Section 8.1. Pregenerated Variables

Section 8.2. Pregenerated Constants

Section 8.3. Sending Text to the Browser

Section 8.4. Output Buffering

Section 8.5. Session Handling

Section 8.6. HTTP Headers

Chapter 9. Operating System

Section 9.1. Files

Section 9.2. Compressed File Functions

Section 9.3. Direct I/O

Section 9.4. Debugging

Section 9.5. POSIX

Section 9.6. Shell Commands

Section 9.7. Process Control

Chapter 10. Network I/O

Section 10.1. General Network I/O

Section 10.2. Sockets

Section 11.1. Data Types, Constants, and Variables

Section 11.2. Arrays

Section 11.3. Objects and Classes

Section 11.4. User Defined Functions

Chapter 12. Encoding and Decoding

Section 12.1. Strings

Section 12.2. String Comparison

Section 12.3. Encoding and Decoding

Section 12.4. Compression

Section 12.5. Encryption

Section 12.6. Hashing

Section 12.7. Spell Checking

Section 12.8. Regular Expressions

Section 12.9. Character Set Encoding

Chapter 13. Math

Section 13.1. Common Math

Section 13.2. Random Numbers

Section 13.3. Arbitrary-Precision Numbers

Chapter 14. Time and Date

Section 14.1. Time and Date

Section 14.2. Alternative Calendars

Chapter 15. Configuration

Section 15.1. Configuration Directives

Section 15.2. Configuration

Chapter 16. Images and Graphics

Section 16.1. Analyzing Images

Section 16.2. Creating Images

Chapter 17. Database

Section 17.1. DBM-Style Database Abstraction

Section 17.7. Postgres

Section 17.8. Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server

Chapter 18. Object Layers

Section 18.1. COM

Section 18.2. CORBA

Section 18.3. Java

Chapter 19. Miscellaneous

Section 19.1. Apache

Section 19.2. IMAP

Section 19.3. MnoGoSearch

Section 19.4. OpenSSL

Section 19.5. System V Messages

Section 19.6. System V Semaphores

Section 19.7. System V Shared Memory

Chapter 20. XML

Section 20.1. DOM XML

Section 20.2. Expat XML

Section 20.3. WDDX

Part III. Algorithms

Chapter 21. Sorting, Searching, and Random Numbers

Section 21.1. Sorting

Section 21.2. Built-In Sorting Functions

Section 21.3. Sorting with a Comparison Function

Section 21.4. Searching

Section 21.5. Indexing

Section 21.6. Random Numbers

Section 21.7. Random Identifiers

Section 21.8. Choosing Banner Ads

Chapter 22. Parsing and String Evaluation

Section 22.1. Tokenizing

Section 22.2. Regular Expressions

Section 22.3. Defining Regular Expressions

Section 22.4. Using Regular Expressions in PHP Scripts

Chapter 23. Database Integration

Section 23.1. Building HTML Tables from SQL Queries

Section 23.2. Tracking Visitors with Session Identifiers

Section 23.3. Storing Content in a Database

Section 23.4. Database Abstraction Layers

Chapter 24. Networks

Section 24.1. HTTP Authentication

Section 24.2. Controlling the Browser's Cache

Section 24.3. Setting Document Type

Section 24.4. Email with Attachments

Section 24.5. HTML Email

Section 24.6. Verifying an Email Address

Chapter 25. Generating Graphics

Section 25.1. Dynamic Buttons

Section 25.2. Generating Graphs on the Fly

Section 25.3. Bar Graphs

Section 25.4. Pie Charts

Section 25.5. Stretching Single-Pixel Images

Part IV. Software Engineering

Chapter 26. Integration with HTML

Section 26.1. Sprinkling PHP within an HTML Document

Section 26.2. Using PHP to Output All HTML

Section 26.3. Separating HTML from PHP

Section 26.4. Generating HTML with PHP

Chapter 27. Design

Section 27.1. Writing Requirements Specifications

Section 27.2. Writing Design Documents

Section 27.3. Change Management

Section 27.4. Modularization Using include

Section 27.5. FreeEnergy

Section 27.6. Templates

Section 27.7. Application Frameworks

Section 27.8. PEAR

Section 27.9. URLs Friendly to Search Engines

Chapter 28. Efficiency and Debugging

Section 28.1. Optimization

Section 28.2. Measuring Performance

Section 28.3. Optimize the Slowest Parts

Section 28.4. When to Store Content in a Database

Section 28.5. Debugging Strategies

Section 28.6. Simulating HTTP Connections

Section 28.7. Output Buffering

Section 28.8. Output Compression

Section 28.9. Avoiding eval

Section 28.10. Don't Load Extensions Dynamically

Section 28.11. Improving Performance of MySQL Queries

Section 28.12. Optimizing Disk-Based Sessions

Section 28.13. Don't Pass by Reference (or, Don't Trust Your Instincts)

Section 28.14. Avoid Concatenation of Large Strings

Section 28.15. Avoid Serving Large Files with PHP-Enabled Apache

Section 28.16. Understanding Persistent Database Connections

Section 28.17. Avoid Using exec, Backticks, and system If Possible

Section 28.18. Use php.ini-recommended

Section 28.19. Don't Use Regular Expressions Unless You Must

Section 28.20. Optimizing Loops

Section 28.21. IIS Configuration

Chapter 29. Design Patterns

Section 29.1. Patterns Defined

Section 29.2. Singleton

Section 29.3. Factory

Section 29.4. Observer

Section 29.5. Strategy

Appendix A. Escape Sequences

Appendix B. ASCII Codes

Appendix C. Operators

Appendix D. PHP Tags

Appendix E. PHP Compile-Time Configuration

Appendix F. Internet Resources

Section F.1. Portals

Section F.2. Software

Appendix G. PHP Style Guide

Section G.1. Comments

Section G.2. Function Declarations

Section G.3. Compound Statements

Section G.4. Naming

Section G.5. Expressions

Index

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