Overview
Main description
Find real-world solutions to PHP programming problems
Simplify and shorten the PHP application development cycle using the in-depth information contained in this hands-on guide. PHP Programming Solutions clearly lays out more than 250 programming challenges alongside practical solutions, functioning code, detailed explanations, and usage tips.
Inside, you'll learn to manipulate strings and arrays, work with HTML and Web pages, accept and validate user input, parse XML code, and resolve programming problems using PEAR and PECL widgets and extensions. Plus, you'll get detailed coverage of PHP security issues, SQL database interaction, debugging techniques, and error processing.
- Work with numbers, strings, dates, times, files, and directories
- Build complex data structures using PHP's array manipulation API
- Use functions and classes to build modular, reusable code
- Create, update, and cache HTML documents and Web content
- Obtain and process user input submitted via online forms
- Protect, log, and debug PHP script actions
- Authenticate and track users with sessions and cookies
- Traverse, validate, and transform XML documents
- Store and retrieve data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases
- Interface with different server types, network protocols, and file formats
- Perform efficient exception handling and error processing
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Working with Strings Chapter 2: Working with Numbers Chapter 3: Working with Dates and Times Chapter 4: Working with Arrays Chapter 5: Working with Functions & Classes Chapter 6: Working with Files and Directories Chapter 7: Working with HTML and Web Pages Chapter 8: Working with Forms, Sessions & Cookies Chapter 9: Working with Databases Chapter 10: Working with XML Chapter 11: Working with Different File Formats and Network Protocols Chapter 12: Working with Exceptions and Other MiscellaneaIndex
Author comments
Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (www.melonfire.com), a company specializing in content creation and syndication. He is the author of MySQL: The Complete Reference and How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL.
