PHP 5 Power Programming

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. Bruce Peren's Open Source Series
3. About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
4. Foreword
5. Preface
6. What Is New in PHP 5?
   1. Introduction
   2. Language Features
   3. General PHP Changes
   4. Other New Features in PHP 5
   5. Summary
7. PHP 5 Basic Language
   1. Introduction
   2. HTML Embedding
   3. Comments
   4. Variables
   5. Basic Data Types
   6. Operators
   7. Control Structures
   8. Functions
   9. Summary
8. PHP 5 OO Language
   1. Introduction
   2. Objects
   3. Declaring a Class
   4. The new Keyword and Constructors
   5. Destructors
   6. Accessing Methods and Properties Using the $this Variable
   7. Class Constants
   8. Cloning Objects
   9. Polymorphism
   10. parent:: and self::
   11. instanceof Operator
   12. Abstract Methods and Classes
   13. Interfaces
   14. Inheritance of Interfaces
   15. final Methods
   16. final Classes
   17. __toString() Method
   18. Exception Handling
   19. __autoload()
   20. Class Type Hints in Function Parameters
   21. Summary
9. PHP 5 Advanced OOP and Design Patterns
   1. Introduction
   2. Overloading Capabilities
   3. Iterators
   4. Design Patterns
   5. Reflection
   6. Summary
10. How to Write a Web Application with PHP
    1. Introduction
    2. Embedding into HTML
    3. User Input
    4. Safe-Handling User Input
    5. Techniques to Make Scripts “Safe”
    6. Cookies
    7. Sessions
    8. File Uploads
    9. Architecture
    10. Summary
11. Databases with PHP 5
    1. Introduction
    2. MySQL
    3. SQLite
    4. PEAR DB
    5. Summary
12. Error Handling
    1. Introduction
    2. Types of Errors
    3. PEAR Errors
    4. Exceptions
    5. Summary
13. XML with PHP 5
    1. Introduction
    2. Vocabulary
    3. Parsing XML
    4. SimpleXML
    5. PEAR
    6. Converting XML
    7. Communicating with XML
    8. Summary
14. Mainstream Extensions
    1. Introduction
    2. Files and Streams
    3. Regular Expressions
    4. Date Handling
    5. Graphics Manipulation with GD
    6. Multi-Byte Strings and Character Sets
    7. Summary
15. Using PEAR
    1. Introduction
    2. PEAR Concepts
    3. Obtaining PEAR
    4. Installing Packages
    5. Configuration Parameters
    6. PEAR Commands
    7. Installer Front-Ends
    8. Summary
16. Important PEAR Packages
    1. Introduction
    2. Database Queries
    3. Template Systems
    4. Authentication
    5. Form Handling
    6. Caching
    7. Summary
17. Building PEAR Components
    1. Introduction
    2. PEAR Standards
    3. Release Versioning
    4. CLI Environment
    5. Fundamentals
    6. Building Packages
    7. The package.xml Format
    8. Dependencies
    9. String Substitutions
    10. Including C Code
    11. Releasing Packages
    12. The PEAR Release Process
    13. Packaging
    14. Uploading
    15. Summary
18. Making the Move
    1. Introduction
    2. The Object Model
    3. Passing Objects to Functions
    4. Compatibility Mode
    5. Other Changes
    6. E_STRICT
    7. Other Compatibility Problems
    8. Changes in Functions
    9. Summary
19. Performance
    1. Introduction
    2. Design for Performance
    3. Benchmarking
    4. Profiling with Zend Studio's Profiler
    5. Profiling with APD
    6. Profiling with Xdebug
    7. Using APC (Advanced PHP Cache)
    8. Using ZPS (Zend Performance Suite)
    9. Optimizing Code
    10. Summary
20. An Introduction to Writing PHP Extensions
    1. Introduction
    2. Quickstart
    3. Summary
21. PHP Shell Scripting
    1. Introduction
    2. PHP CLI Shell Scripts
    3. Summary
22. PEAR and PECL Package Index
    1. Authentication
    2. Benchmarking
    3. Caching
    4. Configuration
    5. Console
    6. Database
    7. Date and Time
    8. Encryption
    9. File Formats
    10. File System
    11. Gtk Components
    12. HTML
    13. HTTP
    14. Images
    15. Internationalization
    16. Logging
    17. Mail
    18. Math
    19. Networking
    20. Numbers
    21. Payment
    22. PEAR
    23. PHP
    24. Processing
    25. Science
    26. Streams
    27. Structures
    28. System
    29. Text
    30. Tools and Utilities
    31. Web Services
    32. XML
23. phpDocumentor Format Reference
    1. Introduction
    2. Documentation Comments
    3. Tag Reference
    4. Tag Table
    5. Using the phpDocumentor Tool
24. Zend Studio Quick Start Guide
    1. Version 3.5.x
    2. About the Zend Studio Client Quick Start Guide
    3. About Zend
    4. Zend Studio Client: Overview
    5. Editing a File
    6. Working with Projects
    7. Running the Debugger
    8. Configure Studio Server for Remote Debugger and Profiling
    9. Running the Profiler
    10. Product Support
    11. Main Features
25. Index