CONTENIDO: INTRODUCTION TO PHP
What Does PHP Do?
A Brief History of PHP
Installing PHP
A Walk Through PHP
LANGUAGE BASICS
Lexical Structure
Data Types
Variables
Expressions and Operators
Flow-Control Statements
Including Code
Embedding PHP in Web Pages
FUNCTIONS
Calling a Function
Defining a Function
Variable Scope
Function Parameters
Return Values
Variable Functions
Anonymous Functions
STRINGS
Quoting String Constants
Printing Strings
Accessing Individual Characters
Cleaning Strings
Encoding and Escaping
Comparing Strings
Manipulating and Searching Strings
Regular Expressions
ARRAYS
Indexed Versus Associative Arrays
Identifying Elements of an Array
Storing Data in Arrays
Multidimensional Arrays
Extracting Multiple Values
Converting Between Arrays and Variables
Traversing Arrays
Sorting
Acting on Entire Arrays
Using Arrays
Iterator Interface
OBJECTS
Terminology
Creating an Object
Accessing Properties and Methods
Declaring a Class
Introspection
Serialization
WEB TECHNIQUES
HTTP Basics
Variables
Server Information
Processing Forms
Setting Response Headers
Maintaining State
SSL
DATABASES
Using PHP to Access a Database
Relational Databases and SQL
MySQLi Object Interface
SQLite
Direct File-Level Manipulation
MongoDB
GRAPHICS
Embedding an Image in a Page
Basic Graphics Concepts
Creating and Drawing Images
Images with Text
Dynamically Generated Buttons
Scaling Images
Color Handling
PDF
PDF Extensions
Documents and Pages
Text
XML
Lightning Guide to XML
Generating XML
Parsing XML
Parsing XML with DOM
Parsing XML with SimpleXML
Transforming XML with XSLT
SECURITY
Filter Input
Cross-Site Scripting
Escape Output
Session Fixation
File Uploads
File Access
PHP Code
Shell Commands
More Information
Security Recap
APPLICATION TECHNIQUES
Code Libraries
Templating Systems
Handling Output
Error Handling
Performance Tuning PHP ON DISPARATE PLATFORMS
Writing Portable Code for Windows and Unix
Interfacing with COM
WEB SERVICES
REST Clients
XML-RPC
DEBUGGING PHP
The Development Environment
The Staging Environment
The Production Environment
php.ini Settings
Manual Debugging
Error Log
IDE Debugging
Additional Debugging Techniques
DATES AND TIMES
Function Reference
PHP Functions by Category
Alphabetical Listing of PHP Functions
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