PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. My Utmost Thanks to:
3. Introduction
4. Advanced PHP Programming
   1. Code Structure and Documentation
   2. Arrays
   3. Constants
   4. Function Recursion and Static Variables
   5. References and Functions
5. Object-Oriented Programming
   1. Defining a Class
   2. Creating an Object
   3. Creating Constructors
   4. Object Inheritance
   5. Using Class Functions Without Instances
   6. Serializing Objects
   7. Destroying Objects
6. Databases
   1. Database Design and Normalization
   2. Creating the Database
   3. Generating Query Results
7. Security
   1. Validating Forms
   2. Validating Forms with JavaScript
   3. Mcrypt
   4. HTTP Authentication
   5. Web Server Security
8. Developing Web Applications
   1. Database Design
   2. Site Structure
   3. PHP and OOP Templates
   4. Sessions
   5. Using Sessions Without Cookies
   6. Debugging
   7. Error Logging and Reporting
9. E-commerce
   1. Creating the Database
   2. Administration
   3. Showing the Products Online
   4. Writing a Shopping Cart
10. Networking with PHP
    1. Browser Detection
    2. Accessing Other Web Sites with PHP
    3. Using fsockopen()
11. PHP and the Server
    1. Establishing a Cron
    2. Compressing Files with PHP
    3. Using COM with PHP
12. XML and PHP
    1. What Is XML?
    2. XML Syntax
    3. Document Type Definitions
    4. Parsing XML with PHP and Expat
    5. XML Error Handling
13. Image Generation
    1. Creating a Simple Image
    2. Using TrueType Fonts
    3. Creating a Database-Driven Graph
    4. Saving and Building on Existing Images
14. Creating PDFs
    1. Creating a Simple PDF
    2. Adding Text to PDFs
    3. Drawing Shapes
    4. Using Images
    5. Creating Multiple-Page PDFs
15. Extending PHP
    1. PEAR
    2. Zend
    3. PHP-GTK
    4. PHP Source Code
16. Installation
    1. Installing PHP with Apache on Linux
    2. Installing PHP on Windows with Xitami
    3. Installing PHP on Mac OS X with Apache
17. Databases
    1. Database Applications
    2. SQL
    3. MySQL Resources
    4. Other Resources
18. General Resources
    1. PHP-Specific Sites
    2. Additional Libraries
    3. Security
    4. Other Resources