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Programming PHP, 3rd Edition

by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe, Peter MacIntyre

February 2013

Intermediate to advanced

538 pages

20h 55m

English

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Kevin TatroePeter MacIntyre
The Evolution of PHPThe Widespread Use of PHP
Configuration PageFormsDatabasesGraphics
Case SensitivityStatements and SemicolonsWhitespace and Line BreaksCommentsShell-style commentsC++ commentsC commentsLiteralsIdentifiersVariable namesFunction namesClass namesConstantsKeywords
IntegersFloating-Point NumbersStringsBooleansArraysObjectsResourcesCallbacksNULL
Variable VariablesVariable ReferencesVariable ScopeLocal scopeGlobal scopeStatic variablesFunction parametersGarbage Collection
Number of OperandsOperator PrecedenceOperator AssociativityImplicit CastingArithmetic OperatorsString Concatenation OperatorAuto-increment and Auto-decrement OperatorsComparison OperatorsBitwise OperatorsLogical OperatorsCasting OperatorsAssignment OperatorsAssignmentAssignment with operationMiscellaneous Operators
ifswitchwhileforforeachtry...catchdeclareexit and returngoto
Standard (XML) StyleSGML StyleASP StyleScript StyleEchoing Content Directly
Global VariablesStatic Variables
Passing Parameters by ValuePassing Parameters by ReferenceDefault ParametersVariable ParametersMissing ParametersType Hinting
Variable InterpolationSingle-Quoted StringsDouble-Quoted StringsHere Documents
echoprint()printf()Format modifiersType specifiersprint_r() and var_dump()
Removing WhitespaceChanging Case
HTMLEntity-quoting all special charactersEntity-quoting only HTML syntax charactersRemoving HTML tagsExtracting meta tagsURLsRFC 3986 encoding and decodingQuery-string encodingSQLC-String Encoding
Exact ComparisonsApproximate Equality
SubstringsMiscellaneous String FunctionsDecomposing a StringExploding and implodingTokenizingsscanf()String-Searching FunctionsSearches returning positionSearches returning rest of stringSearches using masksDecomposing URLs
The BasicsCharacter ClassesAlternativesRepeating SequencesSubpatternsDelimitersMatch BehaviorCharacter ClassesAnchorsQuantifiers and GreedNoncapturing GroupsBackreferencesTrailing OptionsInline OptionsLookahead and LookbehindCutConditional ExpressionsFunctionsMatchingReplacingSplittingFiltering an array with a regular expressionQuoting for regular expressionsDifferences from Perl Regular Expressions
Adding Values to the End of an ArrayAssigning a Range of ValuesGetting the Size of an ArrayPadding an Array
Slicing an ArraySplitting an Array into ChunksKeys and ValuesChecking Whether an Element ExistsRemoving and Inserting Elements in an Array
Creating Variables from an ArrayCreating an Array from Variables
The foreach ConstructThe Iterator FunctionsUsing a for LoopCalling a Function for Each Array ElementReducing an ArraySearching for Values
Sorting One Array at a TimeNatural-Order SortingSorting Multiple Arrays at OnceReversing ArraysRandomizing Order
Calculating the Sum of an ArrayMerging Two ArraysCalculating the Difference Between Two ArraysFiltering Elements from an Array
SetsStacks
Declaring MethodsDeclaring PropertiesDeclaring ConstantsInheritanceInterfacesTraitsAbstract MethodsConstructorsDestructors
Examining ClassesExamining an ObjectSample Introspection Program
MethodsParametersSelf-Processing PagesSticky FormsMultivalued ParametersSticky Multivalued ParametersFile UploadsForm Validation
Different Content TypesRedirectionsExpirationAuthentication
CookiesSessionsSession basicsAlternatives to cookiesCustom storageCombining Cookies and Sessions
PHP Data ObjectsMaking a connectionInteraction with the databasePDO and prepared statementsTransactions
Retrieving Data for Display
Retrieving DataInserting More Complex Data
The Structure of a Graphics ProgramChanging the Output FormatTesting for Supported Image FormatsReading an Existing FileBasic Drawing Functions
FontsTrueType Fonts
Caching the Dynamically Generated ButtonsA Faster Cache
Using the Alpha ChannelIdentifying ColorsTrue Color IndexesText Representation of an Image
A Simple ExampleInitializing the DocumentOutputting Basic Text Cells
CoordinatesText AttributesPage Headers, Footers, and Class ExtensionImages and LinksTables and Data
Element HandlersCharacter Data HandlerProcessing InstructionsEntity HandlersExternal entitiesUnparsed entitiesDefault HandlerOptionsCharacter encodingCase foldingUsing the ParserErrorsMethods as HandlersSample Parsing Application
SQL Injection
FilenamesCheck for relative paths
Distrust Browser-Supplied FilenamesBeware of Filling Your FilesystemSurviving register_globals
Restrict Filesystem Access to a Specific DirectoryGet It Right the First TimeDon’t Use FilesSession FilesConcealing PHP Libraries
Output BufferingCompressing Output
Error ReportingError SuppressionTriggering ErrorsDefining Error HandlersLogging in error handlersOutput buffering in error handlers
BenchmarkingProfilingOptimizing Execution TimeOptimizing Memory RequirementsReverse Proxies and ReplicationReverse-proxy cacheLoad balancing and redirectionMySQL replicationPutting it all together
Determining the PlatformHandling Paths Across PlatformsThe Server EnvironmentSending MailEnd-of-Line HandlingEnd-of-File HandlingExternal CommandsCommon Platform-Specific Extensions
BackgroundPHP FunctionsDetermining the API
ResponsesRetrieving ResourcesUpdating ResourcesCreating ResourcesDeleting Resources
ServersClients
ArraysClasses and ObjectsDate and TimeDirectoriesErrors and LoggingProgram ExecutionFilesystemData FilteringFunctionsPHP Options/InfoMailMathMiscellaneous FunctionsNetworkOutput BufferingSession HandlingStreamsStringsPHP Language TokenizerURLsVariables

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str_shuffle

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string str_shuffle(string string)

Rearranges the characters in string into a random order and returns the resulting string.

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