PHP 5 for Dummies or You Can Do It

PHP 5 for Dummies

Author: Janet Valad

Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular open source Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style

• PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage has grown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past two years

• PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and can be embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; a database-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, and other databases

• Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP's features make it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for three of the most common applications: interactive Web sites, database storage, and common operating system tasks

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Say hello to the PHP scripting language	7
Ch. 1	Getting to know PHP	9
Ch. 2	Setting up the environment	19
Ch. 3	Creating your first PHP script	35
Pt. II	Variables and data	51
Ch. 4	Using variables in PHP scripts	53
Ch. 5	Working with data	73
Ch. 6	Storing data in groups by using arrays	97
Pt. III	Basic PHP programming	127
Ch. 7	Controlling the flow of the script	129
Ch. 8	Reusing PHP code	157
Ch. 9	Object-oriented programming meets PHP	177
Pt. IV	Common PHP applications	197
Ch. 10	The basics of web applications	199
Ch. 11	Other web applications	223
Ch. 12	Storing data with PHP	247
Ch. 13	PHP and your operating system	279
Ch. 14	PHP extensions	303
Pt. V	The part of tens	319
Ch. 15	Ten things to look for when troubleshooting a script	321
Ch. 16	Ten PHP resources you can't live without	327
Pt. VI	Appendixes	331
App. A	Installing PHP	333
App. B	Useful PHP built-in functions	353
	Index	377

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