Table of Contents
Latest update: At long last, this online reference guide has been converted into a book that is now in print. It's taken almost a year of work to go through everything line by line, code included, to rewrite, refine, hone, and enhance it all to be suitable of the name PHP in a Nutshell. At 350 pages PHP in a Nutshell is the most concise guide to learning the most powerful programming language on the web, and is highly recommended if you want to learn PHP or enhance your existing knowledge.
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1. Preface
2. Introducing PHP
3. Simple variables and operators
4. Functions
5. Arrays
6. Objects
7. HTML Forms
8. Files
9. Databases
10. Cookies and Sessions
11. Multimedia
12. XML & XSLT
13. Output Buffering
14. Java and COM
15. Networks
16. Miscellaneous topics
17. Security concerns
18. Performance
19. Writing PHP
20. Writing extensions
21. Alternative PHP uses
22. Practical PHP
23. Bringing it to a close
24. Answers to Exercises
25. The future of PHP
26. Glossary
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Want to see this stuff in print? PHP in a Nutshell takes the core topics covered here, adds in thousands of edits from the editorial team and myself, and combines them to make an unbeatable reference for PHP programmers at all levels.
My previous book has hundreds more tips on how to use PHP, Apache, and MySQL, plus Perl, Python, shell scripts, performance tuning, and more!
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