The book is intended to cover all aspects of PHP. It begins by covering the history of PHP before providing a high level overview of how PHP works and why it is so useful to web developers. It then moves on to cover each area of PHP in detail, from the basics of the scripting language through to object oriented programming, file and filesystem handling and MySQL and SQLite database access.
Book Description
Topics included:The History of PHP • An Overview of PHP • Creating a Simple PHP Script • Commenting PHP Code • An Introduction to PHP Variables • Understanding PHP Variable Types • HP Constants • PHP Operators • PHP Flow Control and Looping • PHP Functions • PHP Arrays • Working with Strings and Text in PHP • PHP, Filesystems and File I/O • Working with Directories in PHP • PHP and HTML Forms • PHP and Cookies – Creating, Reading and Writing • Understanding PHP Sessions • PHP Object Oriented Programming • Using PHP with MySQL • PHP and SQLite •