PHP Developer's Cookbook, 2/e

PHP Developer's Cookbook is a task-oriented book intended to offer solutions to the daily problems and goals the PHP developer faces.

In addition to a brief introduction to PHP, the main content of the book is presented in a problem and solution format, logically organized on a topic-by-topic basis. Each question specifies a goal, and the following text provides a detailed solution that achieves the stated goal along with any additional related information.

After a crash course in the basics, the PHP Developer's Cookbook covers more advanced development topics.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTS AND TECHNIQUES.

1. Manipulating Strings.
2. Working with Numbers, Dates, and Times.
3. Using Arrays.
4. PHP's Built-in Arrays and Constants.
5. Matching Data with Regular Expressions.
6. File Access.
7. Working with Files in Directories.
8. Functions.
9. Classes.
10. Maintaining Sessions with PHP.
11. Interacting with Web Pages and Servers.

II. DATABASES.

12. Creating a Database-Independent API with PHP.

III. GOING OUTSIDE PHP.

13. Interfacing with Other Programs and Languages.
14. Communicating with Sockets.
15. Handling E-mail.
16. Working with SNMP Objects. Introduction. Setting an SNMP Object. Getting an SNMP Object. Fetching All SNMP Objects into an Array.
17. LDAP.

IV. GENERATING OTHER LANGUAGES.

18. Creating and Managing Images.
19. HTML.