PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Page
3. Dedication
4. Table of Contents
5. Introduction
   1. What Is PHP?
   2. Why Use PHP?
   3. How PHP Works
   4. What You’ll Need
   5. About This Book
   6. Companion Website
      1. Questions, comments, or suggestions?
6. 1. Getting Started with PHP
   1. Basic HTML Syntax
   2. Basic PHP Syntax
   3. Using SFTP
   4. Testing Your Script
   5. Sending Text to the Browser
   6. Using the PHP Manual
   7. Sending HTML to the Browser
   8. Adding Comments to Scripts
   9. Basic Debugging Steps
   10. Review and Pursue
7. 2. Variables
   1. What Are Variables?
   2. Variable Syntax
   3. Types of Variables
      1. Numbers
      2. Strings
      3. Arrays
   4. Variable Values
   5. Understanding Quotation Marks
   6. Review and Pursue
8. 3. HTML Forms and PHP
   1. Creating a Simple Form
   2. Choosing a Form Method
   3. Receiving Form Data in PHP
   4. Displaying Errors
   5. Error Reporting
   6. Manually Sending Data to a Page
   7. Review and Pursue
9. 4. Using Numbers
   1. Creating the Form
   2. Performing Arithmetic
   3. Formatting Numbers
   4. Understanding Precedence
   5. Incrementing and Decrementing a Number
   6. Creating Random Numbers
   7. Review and Pursue
      1. Review
      2. Pursue
10. 5. Using Strings
    1. Creating the HTML Form
    2. Concatenating Strings
    3. Handling Newlines
    4. HTML and PHP
    5. Encoding and Decoding Strings
    6. Finding Substrings
    7. Replacing Parts of a String
    8. Review and Pursue
       1. Review
       2. Pursue
11. 6. Control Structures
    1. Creating the HTML Form
    2. The if Conditional
    3. Validation Functions
    4. Using else
    5. More Operators
       1. Comparison
       2. Logical
    6. Using elseif
    7. The Switch Conditional
    8. The for Loop
    9. Review and Pursue
12. 7. Using Arrays
    1. What Is an Array?
       1. Syntactical rules for arrays
    2. Creating an Array
    3. Adding Items to an Array
    4. Accessing Array Elements
    5. Creating Multidimensional Arrays
    6. Sorting Arrays
    7. Transforming Between Strings and Arrays
    8. Creating an Array from a Form
    9. Review and Pursue
       1. Review
       2. Pursue
13. 8. Creating Web Applications
    1. Creating Templates
    2. Using External Files
    3. Using Constants
    4. Working with the Date and Time
    5. Handling HTML Forms with PHP, Revisited
    6. Making Forms Sticky
    7. Sending Email
    8. Output Buffering
    9. Manipulating HTTP Headers
    10. Review and Pursue
        1. Review
        2. Pursue
14. 9. Cookies and Sessions
    1. What Are Cookies?
    2. Creating Cookies
    3. Reading from Cookies
    4. Adding Parameters to a Cookie
    5. Deleting a Cookie
    6. What Are Sessions?
    7. Creating a Session
    8. Accessing Session Variables
    9. Deleting a Session
    10. Review and Pursue
        1. Review
        2. Pursue
15. 10. Creating Functions
    1. Creating and Using Simple Functions
    2. Creating and Calling Functions That Take Arguments
    3. Setting Default Argument Values
    4. Creating and Using Functions That Return a Value
    5. Understanding Variable Scope
    6. Review and Pursue
       1. Review
       2. Pursue
16. 11. Files and Directories
    1. File Permissions
       1. Creating the text file
       2. Setting a file’s permissions
    2. Writing to Files
    3. Locking Files
    4. Reading from Files
    5. Handling File Uploads
    6. Navigating Directories
    7. Creating Directories
    8. Reading Files Incrementally
    9. Review and Pursue
       1. Review
       2. Pursue
17. 12. Intro to Databases
    1. Introduction to SQL
    2. Connecting to MySQL
    3. MySQL Error Handling
    4. Creating a Table
    5. Inserting Data into a Database
    6. Securing Query Data
    7. Retrieving Data from a Database
    8. Deleting Data in a Database
    9. Updating Data in a Database
    10. Review and Pursue
        1. Review
        2. Pursue
18. 13. Putting It All Together
    1. Getting Started
    2. Connecting to the Database
    3. Writing the User-Defined Function
    4. Creating the Template
    5. Logging In
    6. Logging Out
    7. Adding Quotes
    8. Listing Quotes
    9. Editing Quotes
    10. Deleting Quotes
    11. Creating the Home Page
    12. Review and Pursue
        1. Review
        2. Pursue
19. A. Installation and Configuration
    1. Installation on Windows
    2. Installation on Mac OS X
    3. Configuring PHP
    4. MySQL Interfaces
       1. Using the MySQL client
       2. Using phpMyAdmin
    5. Managing MySQL Users
       1. Setting the root user password
       2. Creating a database, users, and privileges
20. B. Resources and Next Steps
    1. The PHP Manual
    2. Database Resources
    3. Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions (or Problems)
    4. Next Steps
       1. Security
       2. Object-oriented programming
       3. Frameworks
       4. JavaScript
       5. Other books
    5. Tables
21. Index
22. Code Snippets