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Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition
By Matt Zandstra
Publisher	: Sams Publishing
Pub Date	: December 23, 2003
ISBN	: 0-672-32619-1
Pages	: 500

		Copyright
		About the Author
		Acknowledgments
		Tell Us What You Think!
		Introduction
			Who Should Read This Book?
			How This Book Is Organized
		Part I:  Getting Started
			Hour 1.  PHP: From Home Page to Web Enterprise
				What Is PHP?
				What Need Does PHP Fulfill?
				What's New in PHP 5
				The Zend Engine
				Why Choose PHP?
				What's New in This Edition
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercise
			Hour 2.  Installing PHP
				Platforms, Servers, Databases, and PHP
				Where to Find PHP and More
				Installing PHP for Linux and Apache
				Some configure Options
				Configuring Apache
				php.ini
				Help!
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercise
			Hour 3.  A First Script
				Our First Script
				Combining HTML and PHP
				Adding Comments to PHP Code
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercise
		Part II:  The Language
			Hour 4.  The Building Blocks
				Variables
				Data Types
				Operators and Expressions
				Constants
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 5.  Going with the Flow
				Switching Flow
				Loops
				Code Blocks and Browser Output
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 6.  Functions
				What Is a Function?
				Calling Functions
				Defining a Function
				Returning Values from User-Defined Functions
				Dynamic Function Calls
				Variable Scope
				Saving State Between Function Calls with the static Statement
				More About Arguments
				Creating Anonymous Functions
				Testing for Function Existence
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercise
			Hour 7.  Arrays
				What Is an Array?
				Creating Arrays
				Associative Arrays
				Multidimensional Arrays
				Accessing Arrays
				Manipulating Arrays
				Sorting Arrays
				Functions Revisited
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 8.  Working with Strings
				Formatting Strings
				Investigating Strings
				Manipulating Strings
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 9.  Objects
				What Is an Object?
				Creating an Object
				Object Properties
				Object Methods
				Limiting Access to Object Properties
				Limiting Access to Object Methods
				Constraining Arguments to Methods with Hints
				Inheritance
				Testing Classes and Objects
				Automatically Loading Include Files with ___autoload()
				Storing and Retrieving Objects
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
		Part III :  Working with PHP
			Hour 10.  Working with Forms
				Superglobal Variables
				The $_SERVER Array
				A Script to Acquire User Input
				Importing User Input into Global Scope
				Accessing Form Input with User-Defined Arrays
				Combining HTML and PHP Code on a Single Page
				Using Hidden Fields to Save State
				Redirecting the User
				File Upload Forms and Scripts
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 11.  Working with Files
				Including Files with include()
				Using include_once() and include_path to Manage Larger Projects
				Testing Files
				Creating and Deleting Files
				Opening a File for Writing, Reading, or Appending
				Reading from Files
				Reading the Contents of a File with file_get_contents()
				Writing or Appending to a File
				Writing Data to a File with file_put_contents()
				Working with Directories
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 12.  Working with the DBA Functions
				Beneath the Abstraction
				Opening a Database
				Adding Data to the Database
				Amending Elements in a Database
				Reading from a Database
				Determining Whether an Item Exists in a Database
				Deleting an Item from a Database
				Adding Complex Data Structures to a Database
				An Example
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 13.  Database Integration—SQL
				A (Very) Brief Introduction to SQL
				Connecting to the MySQL Database Server
				Selecting a Database
				Finding Out About Errors
				Adding Data to a Table
				Acquiring the Value of an Automatically Incremented Field
				Accessing Information
				Changing Data
				SQLite: A Lightweight SQL Engine
				Selecting Data
				Using the PEAR DB Package
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 14.  Beyond the Box
				Server Variables Revisited
				A Brief Summary of an HTTP Client/Server Negotiation
				Getting a Document from a Remote Address
				Converting IP Addresses and Hostnames
				Making a Network Connection
				Sending Mail with the mail() Function
				An Introduction to Streams
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 15.  Images On-the-Fly
				Checking Your Configuration with gd_info()
				Creating and Outputting Images
				Acquiring Color
				Drawing Lines
				Applying Color Fills
				Drawing an Arc
				Drawing a Rectangle
				Drawing a Polygon
				Making a Color Transparent
				Working with Text
				Bringing It Together
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 16.  Working with Dates and Times
				Getting the Date with time()
				Converting a Timestamp with getdate()
				Converting a Timestamp with date()
				Creating Timestamps with mktime()
				An Example
				A Date Pull-down Library
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercise
			Hour 17.  Advanced Objects
				Objects and Constants
				Static Properties
				Static Methods
				Intercepting Calls to Object Properties and Methods
				Final Methods
				Cleaning Up Using Destructors
				Managing Error Conditions with Exceptions
				Tools for Building Object Hierarchies
				Passing and Assigning Objects
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 18.  Working with Regular Expressions
				Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercise
			Hour 19.  Saving State with Cookies and Query Strings
				Cookies
				Setting a Cookie with PHP
				Working with the Query String
				Creating a Query String
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 20.  Saving State with Session Functions
				What Are Session Functions?
				Starting a Session with session_start()
				Working with Session Variables
				Destroying Sessions and Unsetting Elements
				Passing Session IDs in the Query String
				Encoding and Decoding Session Variables
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 21.  Working with the Server Environment
				Opening Pipes to and from Processes with popen() and proc_open()
				Running Commands with exec()
				Running External Commands with system() or the Backtick Operator
				Plugging Security Holes with escapeshellcmd()
				Running External Applications with passthru()
				Calling an External CGI Script with the virtual() Function
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 22.  XML
				What Is XML?
				XML Parser Functions
				An Introduction to the DOM XML Functions
				XSL: A Brief Discussion
				Introducing SimpleXML
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
		Part IV:  Extending PHP
			Hour 23.  PEAR: Reusable Components to Extend the Power of PHP
				What Is PEAR?
				Some PEAR Packages in Action
				PEAR and Your Own Code
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
			Hour 24.  Toward a Framework for Larger Projects
				Principles and Problems
				The Controller Object
				The RequestHelper and DataStore Classes
				The CommandFactory Class
				The Command Class
				The Dispatcher Class
				Working with the Framework
				Where Now, and Was It Worth It?
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
				Exercises
		Glossary
		Index

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