PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide, Fourth Edition

11. Web Application Development

In This Chapter

Sending Email 330

Handling File Uploads 336

PHP and JavaScript 348

Understanding HTTP Headers 355

Date and Time Functions 362

Review and Pursue 366

The preceding two chapters focus on using PHP and MySQL together (which is, after all, the primary point of this book). But there’s still a lot of PHP-centric material to be covered. Taking a quick break from using PHP with MySQL, this chapter covers a handful of techniques that are often used in more complex Web applications.

The first topic covered in this chapter is sending email using PHP. It’s a very common thing to do and is surprisingly simple (assuming that the server is properly set up). After that, the chapter has uses-related examples to cover ...