PHP 5 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide Book

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Advanced PHP Programming
Code Structure and Documentation Function Recursion and Static Variables References and Functions PERL-Compatible Regular Expressions

Chapter 2: Basic Object-Oriented Programming
Defining a Class Creating an Object Creating Constructors Object Inheritance Using Class Functions Without Instances Serializing Objects Destroying Objects

Chapter 3: Developing Web Applications
Catching Exceptions Using PEAR's HTML_QuickFOrm Modularizing a Web Site Error Logging and Reporting Browser Detection

Chapter 4: Database Concepts
Database Design and Normalization Storing Sessions in a Database Storing BLOBs in a Database Using Prepared Statements Database Encryption Working with Bound Variables

Chapter 5: Security
Validating Forms Validating Forms with JavaScript Encryption with Mcrypt HTTP Authentication Web Server Security Shared Server Security Encorporating Captcha with PEAR Using PEAR Auth

Chapter 6: Advanced OOP
Inheritance Access Control Polymorphism Encapsulation Overloading

Chapter 7: E-Commerce
Creating the Database Administration Showing the Products Online Writing a Shopping Cart Handling Commerical Transactions

Chapter 8: Image Generation
Creating a Simple Image Using TrueType Fonts Creating a Database-Driven Graph Saving and Building on Existing Images

Chapter 9: Creating PDFs
Creating a Simple PDF Adding Text to PDFs Drawing Shapes Using Images Creating Multiple-Page PDFs

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Chapter 11: Networking with PHP
Accessing Other Web Sites with PHP Using fsockopen()
Creating RSS Feeds AJAX Using Curl Understanding Streams

Chapter 12: PHP and the Server
Establishing a Cron Task Manager on Windows Compressing Files with PHP Using COM with PHP PHP on Windows Running Two Versions of PHP with Apache

Chapter 13: Using PHP's Command Line Interface
Basic Syntax Working with Command Line Arguments Redirecting Output

Chapter 14: Improving PHP Performance
Installation Options Configuration Options Using an Op Cache Coding Suggestions Database Suggestions Using Benchmarks Using Profiling Performing Unit Tests

Appendix A: Installation
Installing PHP with Apache on Linux Installing PHP on Windows with Xitami Installing PHP on Mac OS X with Apache Running Two Versions of PHP with Apache

Appendix B: Databases
Database Applications SQL MySQL Resources Other Resources

Appendix C: General Resources
PHP-Specific Sites Additional Libraries Security Other Resources