PHP 5 Advanced

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

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.