PHP string handling handbook

Matt Wade, Paul Adams, Chris Cornutt, Syed Fahad Gilani, Paul Wilton

252 pages, parution le 19/05/2003

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Résumé

Every PHP developer has to manipulate text, often on a regular basis; whether it is dealing with user input or for displaying dynamic information on a web page. However, even an experienced PHP developer may not have fully utilized the various options now made available through the extensive range of string functions.

PHP's string functions can be used to format data for display, validate user input, clean data before it is persisted to a database, parse URLs, encode HTML tags, and many other common tasks. When used together these functions can provide complex functionality, such as a full text search application that includes non-exact word matching. PHP has very powerful text handling capabilities and this book will show you how to get the best out of them.

In addition to specific string functions, PHP makes available the powerful text matching and manipulation capabilities of Regular Expressions. These enable you to parse, search, and modify text using a compact language that greatly enhances text handling efficiency.

What you will learn from this book:

How to use PHP's string functions together to solve tricky string handling problems
How to convert between strings and other data types
How to use regular expressions, including syntax and pattern matching
How to validate user input data
How to implement advanced text searching using PHP functions

This book assumes you are familiar with the basic syntax of PHP and already have a working PHP installation that you have used to create some simple PHP scripts. However, the book does not assume any familiarity with PHP's string handling functionality.

Contents

Introduction
Character sets and strings
Basic string functions
String conversion
Introducing regular expressions
Advanced regex concepts and patterns
Searching
Form validation

Appendices
Index

L'auteur - Paul Wilton

After an initial start as a Visual Basic applications programmer at the Ministry of Defence in the UK, Paul Wilton found himself pulled into the net. Having joined a Internet development company he has spent the last 2 years creating Internet solutions and is currently working on an e-commerce website for a major British bank. Paul's main skills are in developing web front ends using DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript and Visual Basic and backend solutions with ASP, VB and SQL Server.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wrox Press
Auteur(s)	Matt Wade, Paul Adams, Chris Cornutt, Syed Fahad Gilani, Paul Wilton
Parution	19/05/2003
Nb. de pages	252
Format	15 x 22,7
Couverture	Broché
Poids	360g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781861008350