Professional PHP 4

Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also aims at teaching PHP by coding - among other things - FTP clients, e-mail clients, some advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming.

What does this book cover?

• The whys and wherefores of PHP4
• PHP installation on *nix, Windows, and MacOS X
• Sessions and cookies, coding FTP clients, network-related function calls, and directory services
• PHP support for LDAP
• Multi-tiered development using PHP
• PHP's interaction with XML
• PHP with MySQL
• PHP with PostgreSQL and ODBC
• Securing, optimizing, and internationalizing PHP applications
• PHP extension libraries
• A real world employee directory, an online library application, and a GTK interface to the application
• Case studies on a user privilege system and a multi-tiered WML-based shopping cart

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 : PHP Roadmap
Chapter 2 : Installation
Chapter 3 : PHP Fundamentals
Chapter 4 : PHP Structures
Chapter 5 : Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 6 : Debugging
Chapter 7 : User Input and Regular Expressions
Chapter 8 : Sessions and Cookies
Chapter 9 : File Handling
Chapter 10 : Coding FTP Clients
Chapter 11 : Email and News-1
Chapter 12 : Email and News-2
Chapter 13 : Networking and TCP/IP
Chapter 14 : LDAP
Chapter 15 : Introduction to multi-tier development
Chapter 16 : A WAP Case Study
Chapter 17 : PHP and MySQL
Chapter 18 : PHP and PostgreSQL
Chapter 19 : PHP and ODBC
Chapter 20 : Non-Web PHP Programming
Chapter 21 : PHP XML
Chapter 22 : Internationalization
Chapter 23 : Security
Chapter 24 : Optimization
Chapter 25 : PHP Extensions Libraries
Chapter 26 : User Privilege System

Appendices:
Appendix A : PHP Extension Functions
Appendix B : Basic and Standard Extension Functions
Appendix C : Database Functions
Appendix D : Configuration Directives