Contents of This Book
Chapter 1, Introduction to PHP, covers the general characteristics of the PHP language and its implementations, and discusses where to get help and information.
Chapter 2, Installing PHP, explains how to obtain and install PHP.
Chapter 3, The PHP Interpreter, covers the PHP interpreter and its use for running PHP programs on a web server or on the command line.
Chapter 4, The PHP Language, covers PHP syntax, variables, control structures, includes, and user-defined functions.
Chapter 5, Variables and Constants, examines the different variable types in PHP.
Chapter 6, Operators, outlines the basic operators in PHP.
Chapter 7, Function Reference, is a reference chapter for the most commonly used built-in functions of PHP.
Chapter 8, Object-Oriented PHP, explains object-oriented programming in PHP.
Chapter 9, HTML Forms, is an introduction to creating HTML forms and processing them in PHP.
Chapter 10, Cookies and Sessions, explains the tools for using cookies and sessions in PHP.
Chapter 11, Output Buffering, describes how to buffer your output, and when you would want to do so.
Chapter 12, Security, covers a few essential security considerations when running PHP websites.
Chapter 13, Files, is a reference to the functions for interacting with files.
Chapter 14, Databases, gives a brief introduction to accessing MySQL and SQLite databases in PHP, and to PEAR::DB, which provides a consistent interface to many different database packages.
Chapter 15, Regular Expressions ...