Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. THE BASICS OF PHP.

1. Getting Started with PHP.

2. The PHP Language.

3. Code Organization and Reuse.

4. Object-Oriented Programming.

5. Working with Arrays.

6. Strings and Characters of the World.

7. Interacting with the Server: Forms.

II. DATABASE BASICS.

8. Introduction to Databases.

9. Designing and Creating Your Database.

10. Using Databases: Storing and Retrieving Data.

11. Using Databases: Advanced Data Access.

12. PHP and Data Access.

III. PLANNING WEB APPLICATIONS.

13. Web Applications and the Internet.

14. Implementing a User Interface.

15. User Management.

16. Securing Your Web Applications:  Planning and Code Security.

17. Securing Your Web Applications:  Software and Hardware Security.

IV. IMPLEMENTING YOUR WEB APPLICATION.

18. Error Handling and Debugging.

19. Cookies and Sessions.

20. User Authentication.

21. Advanced Output and Output Buffering.

22. Data Validation with Regular Expressions.

23. XML and XHTML.

24. Files and Directories.

25. File Uploading.

26. Working with Dates and Times.

27. XML Web Services and SOAP.

28. Using PEAR.

29. Development and Deployment.

V. SAMPLE PROJECTS AND FURTHER IDEAS.

30. Strategies for Successful Web Applications.

31. An Appointment Manager.

32. A Blogging Engine.

33. An Ecommerce Application.

VI. APPENDIXES.

Appendix A. Installation/Configuration.

Appendix B. Database Function Equivalents.

Appendix C. Recommended Reading.

Index.

About the Author

Marc Wandschneider has worked extensively with open source platforms, and has written an Outlook Express-style email client for Linux using Qt. He travels the globe, consulting as a lead manager for software projects and teams. A graduate of the McGill University School of Computer Science, he spent five years working for Microsoft, where he developed and managed developers on the Visual Basic, Visual J++, and .NET Windows Forms teams. A(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.