Intro; Table of Contents; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1: Introducing PHP; Key PHP Features; Practicality; Power; Possibility; Price; The Current State of PHP; The PHP Ecosystem; Drupal; WordPress; Magento; MediaWiki; SugarCRM; Zend Framework; Summary; Chapter 2: Configuring Your Environment; Choosing a Hosting Environment; Virtual Servers; Platform as a Service (PaaS); Installation Prerequisites; Windows; IIS; Apache; Nginx; macOS; Linux; From Source; Configure PHP; The Apache httpd.conf and .htaccess Files; Within the Executing Script; PHP's Configuration Directives
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Assigning Values to VariablesAssigning Variables by Reference; PHP's Superglobal Variables; Learning More About the Server and Client; Retrieving Variables Passed Using GET; Retrieving Variables Passed Using POST; Learning More About the Operating System Environment; Managing Constant Data with Constants; Defining a Constant; Taking Action with Expressions; Defining Inputs with Operands; Defining Actions with Operators; Operator Precedence; Understanding Operator Associativity; Introducing Arithmetic Operators; Assignment Operators; String Operators; Increment and Decrement Operators
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Chapter 3: PHP Basics; Embedding PHP Code in Your Web Pages; Default Syntax; ShortTags; Embedding Multiple Code Blocks; Commenting Your Code; Single-Line C++ Syntax; Multiple-Line Comments; Outputting Data to the Client; Complex Output Using the printf() Statement; The sprintf() Statement; PHP's Data Types; Scalar Data Types; Boolean; Integer; Float; String; Compound Data Types; Array; Object; Converting Between Data Types Using Type Casting; Adapting Data Types with Type Juggling; Type Identifier Functions; Manipulating Dynamic Data Using Variables; Variable Declaration
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Get started with PHP and MySQL programming: no experience necessary. This fifth edition of a classic best-seller includes detailed instructions for configuring the ultimate PHP 7 and MySQL development environment on all major platforms, complete coverage of the latest additions and improvements to the PHP language, and thorough introductions to MySQL's most relied-upon features. You'll not only receive extensive introductions to the core features of PHP, MySQL, and related tools, but you'll also learn how to effectively integrate them in order to build robust data-driven applications. Author Frank M. Kromann draws upon more than 20 years of experience working with these technologies to pack this book with practical examples and insight into the real-world challenges faced by developers. Accordingly, you will repeatedly return to this book as both a valuable instructional tool and reference guide. What You Will Learn Install PHP, MySQL, and several popular web servers Get started with PHP, including using its string-handling, networking, forms-processing, and object-oriented features Gain skills in MySQL's fundamental features, including supported data types, database management syntax, triggers, views, stored routine syntax, and import/export capabilities Work with hundreds of examples demonstrating countless facets of PHP and MySQL integration Who This Book Is For Anyone who wants to get started using PHP to write dynamic web applications.--Provided by publisher.