Secure PHP Development: Building 50 Practical Applications

* Offers fifty practical and secure PHP applications that readers can immediately put to use
* Explains the entire life cycle of each PHP application, including requirements, design, development, maintenance, and tuning
* Reviews application development line-by-line and module-by-module to help readers understand specific coding practices and requirements
* Applications can be readily adapted to many real-world business situations
* CD-ROM contains fifty ready-to-use PHP applications, an evaluation version of Zend tools, and the latest versions of PHP, Apache, and MySQL

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: Designing PHP Applications.

  Chapter 1: Features of Practical PHP Applications.

  Chapter 2: Understanding and Avoiding Security Risks.

  Chapter 3: PHP Best Practices.

Part II: Developing Intranet Solutions.

  Chapter 4: Architecture of an Intranet Application.

  Chapter 5: Central Authentication System.

  Chapter 6: Central User Management System.

  Chapter 7: Intranet System.

  Chapter 8: Intranet Simple Document Publisher.

  Chapter 9: Intranet Contact Manager.

  Chapter 10: Intranet Calendar Manager.

  Chapter 11: Internet Resource Manager.

  Chapter 12: Online Help System.

Part III: Developing E-mail Solutions.

  Chapter 13: Tell-a-Friend System.

  Chapter 14: E-mail Survey System.

  Chapter 15: E-campaign System.

Part IV: Using PHP for Sysadmin Tasks.

  Chapter 16: Command-Line PHP Utilities.

  Chapter 17: Apache Virtual Host Maker.

  Chapter 18: BIND Domain Manager.

Part V: Internet Applications.

  Chapter 19: Web Forms Manager.

  Chapter 20: Web Site Tools.

Part VI: Tuning and Securing PHP Applications.

  Chapter 21: Speeding Up PHP Applications.

  Chapter 22: Securing PHP Applications.

Part VII: Appendixes.

  Appendix A: What’s on the CD-ROM.

  Appendix B: PHP Primer.

  Appendix C: MySQL Primer.

  Appendix D: Linux Primer.

Index.