PHP 5 advanced / Larry Ullman.

By:

Ullman, Larry E. (Larry Edward), 1972-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Visual quickpro guidePublication details: Berkeley, CA : Peachpit Press, c2007.Description: xv, 592 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780321376015 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

005.2762 ULL

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Clonmel Library Main Collection	005.2762 ULL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		R19532YKRC
Standard Loan	Clonmel Library Main Collection	005.2762 ULL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		R19525JKRC

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is an intermediate-to-advanced guide to PHP, the Web scripting language in use on over six million Web sites.

Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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
PHP-Specific Sites
Additional Libraries
Security
Other Resources

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Larry Ullman is Lead PHP Programmer and Directory of Digital Media Technology at DMC Insights, Inc., a firm specializing in information technology. He is the author of several books on PHP, MySQL, Web development, and other programming languages. In addition to writing, he develops dynamic Web applications, conducts training seminars, and teaches PHP programming for the Web through the University of California at Berkeley Extension Online.