Professional PHP Programming

Features :

• Real world, practical experience and techniques
• From installation and configuration of the PHP engine to advanced dynamic application design
• Definitive coverage of core PHP language and database addressing : MySQL is covered in depth
• Practical e-commerce and business scripting including database application development, together with PHP and XML applications
• LDAP connectivity addressed

Table of contents

I. Introduction
1. About this book
2. Downloading, installing and configuring
3. Programming in a Web Environment
II. The Language
4. Variable and data types.
5. Operators
6. Expressions and statements
7. Functions
8. Arrays
9. Objects and OOP
10. String manipulation and regular expressions
III. Advanced PHP
11. Non-relational databases
12. SQL DBMS engines
13. Using LDAP
14. Serving XML documents
15. Graphic content creation
16. PHP connectivity
17. Sending E-mail
18. Cookies
19. Error handling and debugging
20. Security issues
21. Magic with quotes
22. Templates
IV. Sample Applications
23. A shopping cart application (Databases, Cookies)
24. Phorum Case Study (Security)
25. E-mail Case Study (E-mail)
26. Metalloprotein Case Study (Databases)
VI. Appendix
PHP4/Zend
Function Reference
Links/Other resources

About the Author
Wrox has assembled a team of PHP experts to share their experience with you :
Chris Scollo, Jesus Castagnetto and Sascha Schumann are site architects and builders who have employed PHP to run powerful, state-of-the-art web locations. Chris and Jesus have also written widely on PHP online.