"PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide" Table of Contents

PHP Advanced
for the World Wide Web:
Visual QuickPro Guide

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Advanced PHP Programming
    • Code Structure and Documentation
    • Arrays
    • Constants
    • Function Recursion and Static Variables
    • References and Functions
  • Chapter 2: Object-Oriented Programming
    • Defining a Class
    • Creating an Object
    • Creating Constructors
    • Object Inheritance
    • Using Class Functions Without Instances
    • Serializing Objects
    • Destroying Objects
  • Chapter 3: Databases
    • Database Design and Normalization
    • Creating the Database
    • Generating Query Results
  • Chapter 4: Security
    • Validating Forms
    • Validating Forms with JavaScript
    • Mcrypt
    • HTTP Authentication
    • Web Server Security
  • Chapter 5: Developing Web Applications
    • Database Design
    • Site Structure
    • PHP and OOP Templates
    • Sessions
    • Using Sessions Without Cookies
    • Debugging
    • Error Logging and Reporting
  • Chapter 6: E-commerce
    • Creating the Database
    • Administration
    • Showing the Products Online
    • Writing a Shopping Cart
  • Chapter 7: Networking with PHP
    • Browser Detection
    • Accessing Other Web Sites with PHP
    • Using fsockopen()
  • Chapter 8: PHP and the Server
    • Establishing a Cron
    • Compressing Files with PHP
    • Using COM with PHP
  • Chapter 9: XML and PHP
    • What is XML?
    • XML Syntax
    • Document Type Definitions
    • Parsing XML With PHP and Expat
    • XML Error Handling
  • Chapter 10: Image Generation
    • Creating a Simple Image
    • Using TrueType Fonts
    • Creating a Database-Driven Graph
    • Saving and Building on Existing Images
  • Chapter 11: Creating PDFs
    • Creating a Simple PDF
    • Adding Text to PDFs
    • Drawing Shapes
    • Using Images
    • Creating Multiple-Page PDFs
  • Chapter 12: Extending PHP
    • PEAR
    • Zend
    • PHP-GTK
    • PHP Source Code
  • Appendix A: Installation
    • Installing PHP with Apache on Linux
    • Installing PHP on Windows with Xitami
    • Installing PHP on Mac OS X with Apache
  • Appendix B: Databases
    • Database Applications
    • SQL
    • MySQL Resources
    • Other Resources
  • Appendix C: General Resources
    • PHP-Specific Sites
    • Additional Libraries/li>
    • Security
    • Other Resources