PHP Succinctly

Getting started with PHP. Table of Contents 4 The Story behind the Succinctly Series of Books 8 taying on the cutting edge 8 Information is plentiful but harder to digest 8 The Succinctly series 8 The best authors, the best content 8 Free forever 9 Free? What is the catch? 9 Let us know what you think 9 About the Author 10 Who Is This Book For? 11 Chapter 1 An Introduction to PHP 12 What is PHP? 12 Chapter summary 13 Chapter 2 Deploying PHP 14 Installing PHP in a Windows environment 14 Prerequisites 14 Installation process 14 Setting up IIS 14 Installing PHP 18 Testing the installation process 32 Testing in the local computer 33 Testing from a remote computer 33 Chapter summary 34 Chapter 3 PHP Basics 36 Script: The basic concept of PHP 36 What is a script? 36 Script samples 36 The ever-present Hello World 36 Displaying current date 37 Calling HTML from PHP sample 38 Variables 40 Declaring and using variables in PHP 40 Variable types 41 Variable scopes 42 Predefined variables 44 Constants 46 Naming constants 46 Defining constants 46 Operators 47 Arithmetic operators 47 Comparison operators 48 Logical operators 48 Assignment operators 49 Conditional operator 50 Precedence of operators in PHP 50 Strings 52 Arrays 53 Decision making 54 If elseif ... else 54 Switch statement 55 Loops 56 Continue and break special keywords 58 Chapter summary 59 Chapter 4 Functions and File Inclusion 62 User-defined functions 62 Function definition 62 Creating functions 62 Employing parameters 62 Returning values from a function 63 Defining default values for parameters in a function 64 Calling functions dynamically 64 Built-in functions 66 Array functions 67 Date and time functions 67 String functions 68 Character functions 68 File system functions 68 Directory functions 69 File inclusion 69 Chapter summary 71 Chapter 5 Files and Databases 73 Managing Files with PHP 73 Reading a file 73 Writing text to a file 74 Connecting to MySQL databases 75 Prerequisites 75 Installing MySQL in the local computer 75 Using MySQL Workbench to create a database 84 The contactinfo database 86 Our first database connection 88 Inserting a row in the contacts table 89 Inserting data using parameters 90 Querying the contacts table 92 Displaying contacts in a webpage 94 Chapter summary 97 Chapter 6 A Contact List Website 99 Website entry point: index.php 100 Creating a basic HTML structure 100 Creating the website header 101 Creating the website toolbar 102 Creating the website footer 103 Creating the data table section 105 Creating the Add New Contact dialog box 108 The result: A functional Personal Contact List Website 113 Chapter summary 114 Chapter 7 General Summary 115 General Conclusions 119 PHP,web development,MySQL,HTML,client/server applications,Syncfusion,Succinctly series