PHP 5 Advanced: Visual Quickpro Guide (Visual QuickPro Guides) (Taschenbuch)

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: General Resources PHP-Specific Sites Additional Libraries Security Other Resources