Foreword;Preface; Audience; Assumptions This Book Makes; Contents of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Introduction to PHP; 1.1 What Does PHP Do?; 1.2 A Brief History of PHP; 1.3 Installing PHP; 1.4 A Walk Through PHP;Chapter 2: Language Basics; 2.1 Lexical Structure; 2.2 Data Types; 2.3 Variables; 2.
4 Expressions and Operators; 2.5 Flow-Control Statements; 2.6 Including Code; 2.7 Embedding PHP in Web Pages;Chapter 3: Functions; 3.1 Calling a Function; 3.2 Defining a Function; 3.3 Variable Scope; 3.4 Function Parameters; 3.
5 Return Values; 3.6 Variable Functions; 3.7 Anonymous Functions;Chapter 4: Strings; 4.1 Quoting String Constants; 4.2 Printing Strings; 4.3 Accessing Individual Characters; 4.4 Cleaning Strings; 4.5 Encoding and Escaping; 4.
6 Comparing Strings; 4.7 Manipulating and Searching Strings; 4.8 Regular Expressions;Chapter 5: Arrays; 5.1 Indexed Versus Associative Arrays; 5.2 Identifying Elements of an Array; 5.3 Storing Data in Arrays; 5.4 Multidimensional Arrays; 5.5 Extracting Multiple Values; 5.
6 Converting Between Arrays and Variables; 5.7 Traversing Arrays; 5.8 Sorting; 5.9 Acting on Entire Arrays; 5.10 Using Arrays; 5.11 Iterator Interface;Chapter 6: Objects; 6.1 Terminology; 6.2 Creating an Object; 6.
3 Accessing Properties and Methods; 6.4 Declaring a Class; 6.5 Introspection; 6.6 Serialization;Chapter 7: Web Techniques; 7.1 HTTP Basics; 7.2 Variables; 7.3 Server Information; 7.4 Processing Forms; 7.
5 Setting Response Headers; 7.6 Maintaining State; 7.7 SSL;Chapter 8: Databases; 8.1 Using PHP to Access a Database; 8.2 Relational Databases and SQL; 8.3 MySQLi Object Interface; 8.4 SQLite; 8.5 Direct File-Level Manipulation; 8.
6 MongoDB;Chapter 9: Graphics; 9.1 Embedding an Image in a Page; 9.2 Basic Graphics Concepts; 9.3 Creating and Drawing Images; 9.4 Images with Text; 9.5 Dynamically Generated Buttons; 9.6 Scaling Images; 9.7 Color Handling;Chapter 10: PDF; 10.
1 PDF Extensions; 10.2 Documents and Pages; 10.3 Text;Chapter 11: XML; 11.1 Lightning Guide to XML; 11.2 Generating XML; 11.3 Parsing XML; 11.4 Parsing XML with DOM; 11.5 Parsing XML with SimpleXML; 11.
6 Transforming XML with XSLT;Chapter 12: Security; 12.1 Filter Input; 12.2 Cross-Site Scripting; 12.3 Escape Output; 12.4 Session Fixation; 12.5 File Uploads; 12.6 File Access; 12.7 PHP Code; 12.
8 Shell Commands; 12.9 More Information; 12.10 Security Recap;Chapter 13: Application Techniques; 13.1 Code Libraries; 13.2 Templating Systems; 13.3 Handling Output; 13.4 Error Handling; 13.5 Performance Tuning;Chapter 14: PHP on Disparate Platforms; 14.
1 Writing Portable Code for Windows and Unix; 14.2 Interfacing with COM;Chapter 15: Web Services; 15.1 REST Clients; 15.2 XML-RPC;Chapter 16: Debugging PHP; 16.1 The Development Environment; 16.2 The Staging Environment; 16.3 The Production Environment; 16.4 php.
ini Settings; 16.5 Manual Debugging; 16.6 Error Log; 16.7 IDE Debugging; 16.8 Additional Debugging Techniques;Chapter 17: Dates and Times;Function Reference; PHP Functions by Category; Alphabetical Listing of PHP Functions;Colophon;.