PHP 5 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Advanced PHP Programming
    Code Structure and Documentation
    Function Recursion and Static Variables
    References and Functions
    PERL-Compatible Regular Expressions

Chapter 2: Basic Object-Oriented Programming
    Defining a Class
    Creating an Object
    Creating Constructors
    Object Inheritance
    Using Class Functions Without Instances
    Serializing Objects
    Destroying Objects
    
Chapter 3: Developing Web Applications
    Catching Exceptions
    Using PEAR's HTML_QuickFOrm
    Modularizing a Web Site
    Error Logging and Reporting
    Browser Detection

Chapter 4: Database Concepts
    Database Design and Normalization
    Storing Sessions in a Database
    Storing BLOBs in a Database
    Using Prepared Statements
    Database Encryption
    Working with Bound Variables

Chapter 5: Security
    Validating Forms
    Validating Forms with JavaScript
    Encryption with Mcrypt
    HTTP Authentication
    Web Server Security
    Shared Server Security
    Encorporating Captcha with PEAR
    Using PEAR Auth

Chapter 6: Advanced OOP
    Inheritance
    Access Control
    Polymorphism
    Encapsulation
    Overloading

Chapter 7: E-Commerce
    Creating the Database
    Administration
    Showing the Products Online
    Writing a Shopping Cart
    Handling Commerical Transactions

Chapter 8: Image Generation
    Creating a Simple Image
    Using TrueType Fonts
    Creating a Database-Driven Graph
    Saving and Building on Existing Images

Chapter 9: Creating PDFs
    Creating a Simple PDF
    Adding Text to PDFs
    Drawing Shapes
    Using Images
    Creating Multiple-Page PDFs

Chapter 10: XML and PHP
    What is XML?
    XML Syntax
    Document Type Definitions
    Parsing XML With PHP
    XML Error Handling

Chapter 11: Networking with PHP
    Accessing Other Web Sites with PHP
    Using fsockopen()
    Creating RSS Feeds
    AJAX
    Using Curl
    Understanding Streams

Chapter 12: PHP and the Server
    Establishing a Cron
    Task Manager on Windows
    Compressing Files with PHP
    Using COM with PHP
    PHP on Windows
    Running Two Versions of PHP with Apache
   
Chapter 13: Using PHP's Command Line Interface
    Basic Syntax
    Working with Command Line Arguments
    Redirecting Output
   
Chapter 14: Improving PHP Performance
    Installation Options
    Configuration Options
    Using an Op Cache
    Coding Suggestions
    Database Suggestions
    Using Benchmarks
    Using Profiling
    Performing Unit Tests
   
Appendix A: Installation
    Installing PHP with Apache on Linux
    Installing PHP on Windows with Xitami
    Installing PHP on Mac OS X with Apache
    Running Two Versions of PHP with Apache

Appendix B: Databases
    Database Applications
    SQL
    MySQL Resources
    Other Resources

Appendix C: General Resources
    PHP-Specific Sites
    Additional Libraries
    Security
    Other Resources