Professional PHP4

PHP is an open source, server-side HTML-embedded web-scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. Outside of being browser-independent, it offers a simple and universal cross-platform solution for e-commerce, complex web, and database-driven applications.

Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also aims at teaching PHP by coding - among other things - FTP clients, e-mail clients, some advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: PHP Roadmap
Chapter 2: Installation
Chapter 3: PHP Fundamentals
Chapter 4: PHP Structures
Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming with PHP
Chapter 6: Debugging
Chapter 7: User Input and Regular Expressions
Chapter 8: Sessions and Cookies
Chapter 9: File Handling
Chapter 10: Coding FTP Clients
Chapter 11: E-Mail and News
Chapter 12: Retrieving E-Mail and News
Chapter 13: Networking and TCP/IP
Chapter 14: LDAP
Chapter 15: Introduction to Multi-Tier Development
Chapter 16: A WAP Study Case
Chapter 17: PHP and MySQL
Chapter 18: PHP and PostgreSQL
Chapter 19: PHP and ODBC
Chapter 20: Non-Web PHP Programming
Chapter 21: PHP XML
Chapter 22: Internationalization
Chapter 23: Security
Chapter 24: Optimization
Chapter 25: PHP Extension Libraries
Chapter 26: User Privilege System