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| Preface | |
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| Orientation and First Steps | |
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| PHP's Place in the Web World | |
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| What's So Great About PHP? | |
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| PHP in Action | |
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| Basic Rules of PHP Programs | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Working with Text and Numbers | |
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| Text | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Variables | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Making Decisions and Repeating Yourself | |
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| Understanding true and false | |
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| Making Decisions | |
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| Building Complicated Decisions | |
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| Repeating Yourself | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Working with Arrays | |
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| Array Basics | |
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| Looping Through Arrays | |
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| Modifying Arrays | |
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| Sorting Arrays | |
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| Using Multidimensional Arrays | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Functions | |
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| Declaring and Calling Functions | |
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| Passing Arguments to Functions | |
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| Returning Values from Functions | |
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| Understanding Variable Scope | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Making Web Forms | |
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| Accessing Form Parameters | |
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| Form Processing with Functions | |
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| Validating Data | |
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| Displaying Default Values | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Storing Information with Databases | |
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| Organizing Data in a Database | |
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| Connecting to a Database Program | |
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| Creating a Table | |
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| Putting Data into the Database | |
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| Inserting Form Data Safely | |
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| Generating Unique IDs | |
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| A Complete Data Insertion Form | |
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| Retrieving Data from the Database | |
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| Changing the Format of Retrieved Rows | |
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| Retrieving Form Data Safely | |
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| A Complete Data Retrieval Form | |
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| MySQL Without PEAR DB | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Remembering Users with Cookies and Sessions | |
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| Working with Cookies | |
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| Activating Sessions | |
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| Storing and Retrieving Information | |
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| Configuring Sessions | |
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| Login and User Identification | |
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| Why setcookie() and session_start() Want to Be at the Top of the Page | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Handling Dates and Times | |
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| Displaying the Date or Time | |
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| Parsing a Date or Time | |
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| Dates and Times in Forms | |
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| Displaying a Calendar | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Working with Files | |
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| Understanding File Permissions | |
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| Reading and Writing Entire Files | |
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| Reading and Writing Parts of Files | |
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| Working with CSV Files | |
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| Inspecting File Permissions | |
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| Checking for Errors | |
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| Sanitizing Externally Supplied Filenames | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Parsing and Generating XML | |
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| Parsing an XML Document | |
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| Generating an XML Document | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Debugging | |
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| Controlling Where Errors Appear | |
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| Fixing Parse Errors | |
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| Inspecting Program Data | |
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| Fixing Database Errors | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| What Else Can You Do with PHP? | |
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| Graphics | |
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| PDF | |
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| Shockwave/Flash | |
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| Browser-Specific Code | |
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| Sending and Receiving Mail | |
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| Uploading Files in Forms | |
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| The HTML_QuickForm Form-Handling Framework | |
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| Classes and Objects | |
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| Advanced XML Processing | |
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| SQLite | |
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| Running Shell Commands | |
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| Advanced Math | |
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| Encryption | |
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| Talking to Other Languages | |
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| IMAP, POP3, and NNTP | |
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| Command-Line PHP | |
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| PHP-GTK | |
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| Even More Things You Can Do with PHP | |
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| Installing and Configuring the PHP Interpreter | |
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| Regular Expression Basics | |
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| Answers To Exercises | |
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| Index | |