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Why is PHP the most widely used programming language on the web? This updated edition teaches everything you need to know to create effective web applications using the latest features in PHP 7.4. You’ll start with the big picture and then dive into language syntax, programming techniques, and other details, using examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms.
If you have a working knowledge of HTML, authors Kevin Tatroe and Peter MacIntyre provide many style tips and practical programming advice in a clear and concise manner to help you become a top-notch PHP programmer.
Understand what’s possible when you use PHP programs
Learn language fundamentals, including data types, variables, operators, and flow control statements
Explore functions, strings, arrays, and objects
Apply common web application techniques, such as form processing, data validation, session tracking, and cookies
Interact with relational databases like MySQL or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
Generate dynamic images, create PDF files, and parse XML files
Learn secure scripts, error handling, performance tuning, and other advanced topics
Get a quick reference to PHP core functions and standard extensions
From the Preface
Now more than ever, the web is a major vehicle for corporate and personal communications. Websites carry satellite images of Earth in its entirety; search for life in outer space; house personal photo albums, business shopping carts, and product lists; and so much more! Many of those websites are driven by PHP, an open source scripting language primarily designed for generating HTML content.
Since its inception in 1994, PHP has swept the web and continues its phenomenal growth today. The millions of websites powered by PHP are testament to its popularity and ease of use. Everyday people can learn PHP and build powerful dynamic websites with it.
The core PHP language (version 7+) features powerful string- and array-handling facilities, as well as greatly improved support for object-oriented programming.
With the use of standard and optional extension modules, a PHP application can interact with a database such as MySQL or Oracle, draw graphs, create PDF files, and parse XML files. You can run PHP on Windows, which lets you control other Windows applications (such as Word and Excel with COM) or interact with databases using ODBC.
This book is a guide to the PHP language. When you finish it (we won’t tell you how it ends!), you will know how the PHP language works, how to use the many powerful extensions that come standard with PHP, and how to design and build your own PHP web applications.
Audience
PHP is a melting pot of cultures. Web designers appreciate its accessibility and convenience, while programmers appreciate its flexibility, power, diversity, and speed. Both cultures need a clear and accurate reference to the language. If you are a (web) programmer, then this book is for you. We show the big picture of the PHP language, and then discuss the details without wasting your time. The many examples clarify the textual explanations; the practical programming advice and many style tips will help you become not just a PHP programmer, but a good PHP programmer.
If you’re a web designer, you will appreciate the clear and useful guides to specific technologies, such as JSON, XML, sessions, PDF generation, and graphics. And you’ll be able to quickly get the information you need from the language chapters, which explain basic programming concepts in simple terms.
This edition has been fully revised to cover the latest features of PHP version 7.4.
Assumptions This Book Makes
This book assumes you have a working knowledge of HTML. If you don’t know HTML, you should gain some experience with simple web pages before you try to tackle PHP. For more information on HTML, we recommend HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy (O’Reilly).
About the Author
Kevin Tatroe has been an Apple Platforms and web stack engineer for almost 30 years, developing websites and mobile, desktop, and TV apps both small and enormous. He’s attracted to technologies that allow for rapid iteration, experimentation, and highly opinionated architecture. Kevin, his wife Jenn, his son Hadden, and their two cats are recent transplants to Los Angeles, trading the quiet farmland of Colorado for the bustle of Hollywood. Their house remains filled with LEGO creations, board games, books, and numerous other distractions.
Peter MacIntyre has over 28 years of experience in the information technology industry, primarily in the area of PHP and Web Technologies. He has contributed writing material for many IT industry publications: Author of PHP: The Good Parts (O’Reilly); co-author: Pro PHP Programming (APress), Programming PHP (3rd Edition - O’Reilly), Using Visual Objects, Using PowerBuilder 5, ASP.NET Bible, Web Warrior Survey on Web Development Languages, and Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide.
Peter is a co-founder and past co-chair and past board member for the Northeast PHP Developer's Conference held in Boston, MA and Charlottetown, PE Canada for the last 6 years (northeastphp.org).
As well, Peter has spoken several times at North American and International computer conferences including PHPCE 2017 in Warsaw, Poland; PHP[World] 2016 in Washington, DC; ZendCon 2016 in Las Vegas, NortheastPHP 2017 & 2016 (Charlottetown, PE, Canada), Prairie Dev Con 2016 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, CA-World in New Orleans, USA; CA-TechniCon in Cologne, Germany; and CA-Expo in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Zend Certified Engineer in PHP 5.3 and PHP 4.0.
About the book:
Publisher : O'Reilly Media; 4th edition (April 7, 2020)
Language : English
Pages : 544
File : PDF, 9MB
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