Advanced PHP for Web Professionals

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. The Prentice Hall PTR Advanced Web Development Series
3. About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
4. Preface
5. PHP Review
   1. Overview
   2. PHP Syntax
   3. Variables
   4. Operators
   5. Arrays
   6. If/Then Statements
   7. Switch Statements
   8. For Loops
   9. Foreach Loops
   10. While Loops
   11. Do While Loops
   12. User-Defined Functions
   13. Object Oriented Programming with PHP
   14. phpinfo( )
   15. Additional Resources
6. Session Management
   1. Introduction to Session Management in PHP4
   2. Initial php.ini Settings for Session Management
   3. Starting a Session
   4. The Contents of Session Files
   5. Tracking Variables across Pages during a Session
   6. Unregistering Session Variables
   7. Destroying Sessions
   8. A Simple Session-Based Shopping Cart
7. Multiple Database Interaction
   1. Advanced Database Interaction in PHP4
   2. Database-Specific Functions in PHP
   3. DBX—PHP Support for Multiple Databases
   4. Creating Your Own Support for Multiple Databases
   5. Using Pear::DB
8. Better Form Processing
   1. Introduction to Better Forms
   2. Post and Get
   3. Souping Up the Script
   4. Form-Field Checking
   5. Using $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS
   6. Putting It All Together
   7. Variable Variables
9. Using What You Have Learned—A Simple Shopping Cart
   1. Introduction
   2. Features of the Shopping Cart
   3. Setting It Up
   4. The Code
10. Working with Files
    1. Overview
    2. Opening and Closing Files
    3. Putting It to Use
    4. Data Mining
    5. Parsing Large Files
11. PHP Authentication Schemes
    1. User Authentication Overview
    2. Generating Passwords
    3. Authenticating Users Against Text Files
    4. Authenticating Users by IP Address
    5. Authenticating Users Using HTTP Authentication
    6. Authenticating Users by Database Query
12. Error Management
    1. Overview
    2. Error Reporting
13. Using What You Have Learned—A Meeting Tracker Application
    1. Introduction
    2. Setting It Up
    3. The Code
14. PHP and XML
    1. Overview
    2. Creating an XML Parser
    3. Parsing and Transforming XML Documents
    4. Dumping Database Contents into an XML File
15. Generating Dynamic Graphics with PHP
    1. Overview
    2. The GD Library
    3. Enabling GD Support
    4. Generating Graphics with GD
16. PHPGTK
    1. Introduction to PHPGTK
    2. Installing PHPGTK
    3. Creating Basic GTK Objects
    4. Putting It All Together
    5. A Simple PHPGTK Application
17. Index