Research Catalog

Title

• Core PHP programming : using PHP to build dynamic Web sites / Leon Atkinson.

Author

Atkinson, Leon

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2001.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xxv, 769 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Subject

• PHP (Computer program language)
• Web sites > Design

Genre/Form

CD-ROMs.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1 Programming With PHP 1 -- Origins of PHP 4 -- What Makes PHP Better than Its Alternatives 6 -- Interfaces to External Systems 7 -- How PHP Works with the Web Server 8 -- Hardware and Software Requirements 9 -- Installation on Apache for UNIX 10 -- Installation on IIS for Windows NT 12 -- Editing Scripts 12 -- Algorithms 13 -- What a PHP Script Looks Like 14 -- Saving Data for Later 16 -- Receiving User Input 18 -- Choosing between Alternatives 22 -- Repeating Code 22 -- 2 Variables, Operators, and Expressions 25 -- Identifiers 25 -- Data Types 26 -- Variable Creation and Scope 29 -- Assigning Values to Variables 33 -- Retrieving Values 35 -- Freeing Memory 35 -- Constants 37 -- Operators 38 -- Logical and Relational Operators 40 -- Bitwise Operators 41 -- Miscellaneous Operators 42 -- Assignment Operators 46 -- Expressions 46 -- 3 Control Statements 51 -- True and False 51 -- If Statement 52 -- ? Operator 53 -- Switch Statement 56 -- Loops 58 -- While Statement 58 -- Break Statement 60 -- Continue Statement 61 -- Do ... while Statement 62 -- For Statement 63 -- Foreach Statement 66 -- exit, die, and return 66 -- Evaluation of Boolean Expressions 67 -- 4 Functions 69 -- Declaring a Function 69 -- Return Statement 71 -- Scope and the global Statement 71 -- Arguments 72 -- Recursion 75 -- Dynamic Function Calls 77 -- 5 Arrays 79 -- Single-Dimensional Arrays 79 -- Indexing Arrays 80 -- Initializing Arrays 82 -- Multidimensional Arrays 83 -- Casting Arrays 84 -- Referencing Arrays Inside Strings 85 -- 6 Classes and Objects 91 -- Defining a Class 92 -- Creating an Object 95 -- Accessing Properties and Methods 96 -- 7 I/O and Disk Access 99 -- HTTP Connections 99 -- Writing to the Browser 101 -- Output Buffering 102 -- Environment Variables 103 -- Getting Input from Forms 104 -- Cookies 106 -- File Uploads 107 -- PUT Method Requests 108 -- Reading and Writing to Files 109 -- Sessions 111 -- Include and require Functions 114 -- Part 2 Functional Reference 117 -- 8 I/O Functions 119 -- Sending Text to the Browser 119 -- Output Buffering 122 -- Files 124 -- Compressed File Functions 163 -- POSIX 170 -- Debugging 175 -- Session Handling 200 -- Shell Commands 203 -- HTTP Headers 205 -- Network I/O 207 -- FTP 214 -- 9 Data Functions 225 -- Data Types, Constants, and Variables 225 -- Arrays 231 -- Hashing 257 -- Strings 261 -- Encoding and Decoding 269 -- Encryption 291 -- Regular Expressions 297 -- Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions 300 -- 10 Mathematical Functions 307 -- Common Math 307 -- Random Numbers 316 -- Arbitrary-Precision Numbers 319 -- 11 Time, Date, and Configuration Functions 323 -- Time and Date 323 -- Alternative Calendars 332 -- Configuration 336 -- 12 Image Functions 345 -- Analyzing Images 346 -- Creating JPEG, PNG, and WBMP Images 348 -- 13 Database Functions 385 -- dBase 386 -- DBM-style Database Abstraction 391 -- filePro 397 -- Informix 399 -- InterBase 408 -- mSQL 415 -- MySQL 427 -- ODBC 444 -- Oracle 456 -- Postgres 479 -- Sybase 490 -- 14 Miscellaneous Functions 501 -- Apache 501 -- Aspell 506 -- COM 507 -- Gettext 509 -- IMAP 511 -- Java 534 -- LDAP 535 -- Semaphores 548 -- Shared Memory 550 -- SNMP 555 -- WDDX 558 -- XML 561 -- Part 3 Algorithms 577 -- 15 Sorting, Searching, and Random Numbers 579 -- Sorting 580 -- Bubble Sort 580 -- Quicksort 583 -- Built-In Sorting Functions 585 -- Sorting with a Comparison Function 591 -- Searching 595 -- Indexing 595 -- Random Numbers 598 -- Random Identifiers 602 -- Choosing Banner Ads 605 -- 16 Parsing and String Evaluation 607 -- Tokenizing 607 -- Regular Expressions 610 -- Defining Regular Expressions 611 -- Using Regular Expressions in PHP Scripts 612 -- 17 Database Integration 623 -- Building HTML Tables from SQL Queries 624 -- Tracking Visitors with Session Identifiers 629 -- Storing Content in a Database 634 -- Database Abstraction Layers 642 -- 18 Network 645 -- HTTP Authentication 645 -- Controlling Browser Cache 648 -- Setting Document Type 651 -- Email with Attachments 651 -- Verifying an Email Address 656 -- 19 Generating Graphics 663 -- Dynamic Buttons 664 -- Generating Graphs on the Fly 669 -- Bar Graphs 669 -- Pie Charts 672 -- Stretching Single-Pixel Images 678 -- Part 4 Software Engineering 681 -- 20 Integration with HTML 683 -- Sprinkling PHP within an HTML Document 683 -- Using PHP to Output All HTML 688 -- Separating HTML from PHP 690 -- Creating <SELECT> Fields 692 -- Passing Arrays in Forms 695 -- 21 Design 699 -- Writing Requirements Specifications 700 -- Writing Design Documents 704 -- Using CVS 705 -- Modularization Using include 706 -- FreeEnergy 708 -- FastTemplate 710 -- Midgard 711 -- Ariadne 711 -- Preserving State and Providing Security 712 -- Cloaking 713 -- URLs Friendly to Search Engines 714 -- Running a Script Regularly 716 -- 22 Efficiency and Debugging 719 -- Measuring Performance 720 -- Fetching Database Query Results 721 -- When to Store Content in a Database 722 -- In-Line Debugging 724 -- Remote Debugging 724 -- Simulating HTTP Connections 725.

ISBN

0130893986

LCCN

^^^00034019^

OCLC

44046859

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library