Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, 2/e

Consisting of 24 one-hour lessons, Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is divided into five sections that guide the reader through the language from the basics to the advanced functions.

The first section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. And then, building upon what has been taught in the first section, sections two through four shows the reader how to apply that knowledge in order to interact with the user by creating and managing forms, cookies and authentication. It also teaches how to access databases and how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and much more.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. GETTING STARTED.

Hour 1. PHP: From Homepage to Portal.
Hour 2. Installing PHP.
Hour 3. A First Script.

II. THE LANGUAGE.

Hour 4. The Building Blocks.
Hour 5. Going with the Flow.
Hour 6. Functions.
Hour 7. Arrays.
Hour 8. Objects.

III. WORKING WITH PHP.

Hour 9. Working with Forms.
Hour 10. Working with Files.
Hour 11. Working with DBM Functions.
Hour 12. Database IntegrationmdSQL.
Hour 13. Beyond the Box.
Hour 14. Images On-the-Fly.
Hour 15. Working with Dates and Times.
Hour 16. Working with Data.
Hour 17. Working with Strings.
Hour 18. Working with Regular Expressions.
Hour 19. Saving State with Cookies and Query Strings.
Hour 20. Saving State with Session Functions.
Hour 21. Working with the Server Environment.
Hour 22. PHP4 and XML.

IV. EXTENDING PHP.

Hour 23. Smarty: A Template Engine.
Hour 24. An Example: Page.inc.php.
Index.