Programming PHP: Creating Dynamic Web Pages

by Kevin Tatroe, Peter MacIntyre

Overview

Why is PHP the most widely used programming language on the web? This updated edition teaches everything you need to know to create effective web applications using the latest features in PHP 7.4. You’ll start with the big picture and then dive into language syntax, programming techniques, and other details, using examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms.

If you have a working knowledge of HTML, authors Kevin Tatroe and Peter MacIntyre provide many style tips and practical programming advice in a clear and concise manner to help you become a top-notch PHP programmer.

• Understand what’s possible when you use PHP programs
• Learn language fundamentals, including data types, variables, operators, and flow control statements
• Explore functions, strings, arrays, and objects
• Apply common web application techniques, such as form processing, data validation, session tracking, and cookies
• Interact with relational databases like MySQL or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Generate dynamic images, create PDF files, and parse XML files
• Learn secure scripts, error handling, performance tuning, and other advanced topics
• Get a quick reference to PHP core functions and standard extensions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492054085
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/12/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	544
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Kevin Tatroe has been an Apple Platforms and web stack engineer for almost 30 years, developing websites and mobile, desktop, and TV apps both small and enormous. He’s attracted to technologies that allow for rapid iteration, experimentation, and highly opinionated architecture. Kevin, his wife Jenn, his son Hadden, and their two cats are recent transplants to Los Angeles, trading the quiet farmland of Colorado for the bustle of Hollywood. Their house remains filled with LEGO creations, board games, books, and numerous other distractions.

Peter MacIntyre has over 28 years of experience in the information technology industry, primarily in the area of PHP and Web Technologies. He has contributed writing material for many IT industry publications: Author of PHP: The Good Parts (O’Reilly); co-author: Pro PHP Programming (APress), Programming PHP (3rd Edition - O’Reilly), Using Visual Objects, Using PowerBuilder 5, ASP.NET Bible, Web Warrior Survey on Web Development Languages, and Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide.

Peter is a co-founder and past co-chair and past board member for the Northeast PHP Developer's Conference held in Boston, MA and Charlottetown, PE Canada for the last 6 years (northeastphp.org). As well, Peter has spoken several times at North American and International computer conferences including PHPCE 2017 in Warsaw, Poland; PHP[World] 2016 in Washington, DC; ZendCon 2016 in Las Vegas, NortheastPHP 2017 & 2016 (Charlottetown, PE, Canada), Prairie Dev Con 2016 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, CA-World in New Orleans, USA; CA-TechniCon in Cologne, Germany; and CA-Expo in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Zend Certified Engineer in PHP 5.3 and PHP 4.0.

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Forty percent of all web applications run on PHP. With the major PHP 5 upgrade fully matured through several point releases, now’s the time to master PHP (or deepen your existing skills). Packed with both insight and code, Programming PHP, Second Edition is all you’ll need.

If you wish, you can start comfortably with the absolute basics: data types, variables, flow control, functions, strings, arrays. Or, focus on what’s new: there’s detailed coverage of PHP 5’s improvements in object and XML support; a quick briefing on PHP Data Objects, and a thoroughly modernized chapter on extending PHP.

Or simply use this book as a problem solver. Need to output PDF? It’s explained. Need to build a database application? There’s a ten-page case study. Need to secure your scripts against SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other exploits? You’ll find surprisingly simple solutions. Bill Camarda, from the July 2006 Read Only

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