RAPID LEARNING PHP
RAPID LEARNING PHP
About the Book
Info
PHP is Object Oriented Programming Language from building Server Side scripts .
PHP home page is at https://secure.php.net/.
Book content
This book is collection of standalone tutorials.
This means that each tutorial contains minimum amount of code needed to explain specific functionality.
This is in contrast to building a single application where each new functionality is added on top of already explained ones.
Each tutorial has minimum amount of supporting text making emphasis on the code example to do the explaining.
How to use this book
This book can be used as an introduction to PHP language covering all of the basic core functionalities.
In addition book will be updated with more tutorials covering more specific subjects.
Book is also intended as Just In Time Support so that user can learn what it needs when it needs it.
This is why tutorials are standalone and minimalistic focusing only at one problem at the time.
About the Author
Table of Contents
1.1 About PHP
1.2 Install PHP on OS
1.2.1 Install PHP on Windows
1.3 Install PHP on Web Server
1.3.1 Install PHP on IIS
1.3.2 Install PHP on Apache
1.4 Create PHP Application
1.4.1 Create PHP Console Application
1.4.2 Create PHP Web Application
2. Basic Syntax
2.1 Comments
2.1.1 Single Line
2.1.2 Multi Line
2.2 Operators
2.2.1 Comparison
2.2.2 Arithmetic
2.2.3 Assignment
2.2.4 Bitwise
2.2.5 Logical
2.2.6 Cast
2.3 Statements
2.3.1 Conditional
2.3.1.1 Branching
2.3.1.1.1 if
2.3.1.1.2 else
2.3.1.1.3 elseif
2.3.1.1.4 Question ?:
2.3.1.1.5 switch
2.3.1.2 Looping
2.3.1.2.1 for
2.3.1.2.2 foreach
2.3.1.2.3 while
2.3.1.2.4 do...while
2.3.2 Jumping
2.3.2.1 goto
2.3.2.2 break
2.3.2.3 Continue
2.3.3 Assignment
2.3.3.1 Operators
2.3.3.2 list
2.3.4 Script Inclusion
2.3.4.1 include
2.3.4.2 require
2.3.4.3 require_once
2.4 Functions
2.4.1 Declare
2.4.1.1 Name
2.4.1.2 Return value
2.4.1.2.1 None
2.4.1.2.2 Single
2.4.1.2.3 Multiple
2.4.1.3 Parameters
2.4.1.3.1 Number of parameters
2.4.1.3.1.1 Zero
2.4.1.3.1.2 Fixed
2.4.1.3.1.3 Variable
2.4.1.3.2 Default values
2.4.1.3.3 Types
2.4.1.3.4 By Value
2.4.1.3.5 By Reference
2.4.2 Reference
2.5 Data types
2.5.1 Scalar
2.5.1.1 Null
2.5.1.2 Boolean
2.5.1.3 Integer
2.5.1.4 Float
2.5.2 Compound
2.5.2.1 Array
2.5.2.2 Class
2.5.2.3 String
2.5.3 Type casting
2.5.3.1 Explicit
2.5.3.2 Implicit
2.5.4 Type Related Functions
2.6 Literals
2.6.1 Null
2.6.2 Boolean
2.6.3 Integer
2.6.3.1 Decimal Notation
2.6.3.2 Binary Notation
2.6.3.3 Octal Notation
2.6.3.4 Hexadecimal Notation
2.6.4 Float
2.6.4.1 Basic Notation
2.6.4.2 Scientific Notation
2.6.5 Array
2.6.5.1 Indexed Notation
2.6.5.2 Associative Notation
2.6.5.3 Mixed Notation
2.6.6 String
2.6.6.1 Double Quotes Notation
2.6.6.1.1 Parsing Variables using Simple Syntax
2.6.6.1.2 Parsing Variables using Complex Syntax
2.6.6.2 Single Quotes Notation
2.6.6.3 Heredoc Notation
2.6.6.4 Nowdoc Notation
2.7 Variables
2.6.1 Declaration
2.6.1.1 Location
2.6.1.2 Name
2.6.1.3 Scope
2.6.1.3.1 Function
2.6.1.3.2 Global
2.6.1.4 Persistence
2.6.1.4.1 Static
2.6.1.4.2 Non Static
2.6.2 Assignment
2.6.2.1 Location
2.6.2.2 By Value
2.6.2.3 By Reference
2.7 Constants
2.8 Web Page Delimitators
3. Object Oriented Syntax
3.1 Classes
3.1.1 Declare
3.1.2 Reference
3.1.3 Abstract
3.1.4 Extend Class
3.1.5 Implement Interfaces
3.2 Interfaces
3.2.1 Declare
3.3 Methods
3.3.1 Declare
3.3.2 Reference
3.3.2.1 Through Class
3.3.2.2 Through Object
3.3.2.3 Using $this
3.3.2.4 Using self
3.3.3 Scope
3.3.3.1 Public
3.3.3.2 Protected
3.3.3.3 Private
3.3.4 Other Modifiers
3.3.4.1 Abstract
3.3.4.2 Static
3.3.4.3 Final
3.3.5 Predefined
3.3.5.1 __construct()
3.3.5.2 __destruct()
3.3.5.3 __set()
3.3.5.4 __get()
3.3.5.5 __clone()
3.4 Fields
3.4.1 Declare
3.4.2 Reference
3.4.3 Scope
3.4.3.1 Public
3.4.3.2 Protected
3.4.3.3 Private
3.4.4 Other Modifiers
3.4.4.1 Static
3.4.5 Simulate Properties
3.5 Objects
3.5.1 Create
3.5.2 Add Field
3.6 Exceptions
3.6.1 Throw
3.6.2 Catch
3.6.3 Create Custom
3.7 Helper Functions
3.7.1 _autoload()
4. Built in functionalities
4.1 PHP Directives
4.1.1 Basic operations
4.1.1.1 Find which php.ini is used
4.1.1.2 Set directives programmatically
4.1.2 List of Directives
4.1.2.1 Error Directives
4.1.2.2 Other directives
4.2 Data
4.2.1 Displaying
4.2.2 Sorting
4.2.3 Encrypting
4.3 Files
4.3.1 Text
4.3.1.1 Write
4.3.1.2 Append
4.3.1.3 Read
4.3.2 Binary
4.3.2.1 Write
4.3.2.2 Append
4.3.2.3 Read
4.3.3 Properties
4.3.3.1 Read
4.4 Regular Expressions
4.4.1 POSIX
4.4.2 PERL
4.5 Authentication
4.5.1 Based on Hard Coded Values
4.5.2 Based on File
4.5.3 Based on Database
4.6 Web Forms
4.6.1 HTTP Request parameters
4.6.1.1 Read from global array
4.6.1.2 Initialize Automatically
4.6.1.3 Multivalued form components
4.6.2 Refer to the same script
4.6.3 Server side validation
5. Tools
5.1 Composer
5.1.1 Install
5.1.2 Install Package
5.1.3 Commands
5.2 PEAR
5.2.1 Install
5.2.2 Test
5.2.3 Update
5.3 PHP Documentor
5.3.1 Install using PEAR
5.3.2 Create Documentation
5.3.3 Elements
5.3.3.1 Description
5.3.3.1.1 Short
5.3.3.1.2 Long
5.3.3.1.3 Formatting tags
5.3.3.2 Tags
5.4 PHPEclipse
5.4.1 Install using Online Update Site
5.4.2 Settings
5.4.2.1 PHP Interpreter
5.4.2.2 PHP External Tools
5.4.2.3 Indentation
5.4.2.4 Highlighting
5.4.3 Procedure
5.4.3.1 Create PHP Project
5.4.3.2 Create PHP File
5.4.3.3 Execute PHP File
6. Errors
6.1 Syntax
6.1.1 Content of PHP file is displayed instead of executed
6.1.2 Could not open input file: test.php
6.1.3 Failed opening required 'PEAR.php'
6.1.4 Failed opening required 'DB.php'
6.1.5 Failed opening required 'Log.php'
6.1.6 Failed to open stream
6.1.7 PHP Notice: Undefined index: LOGON_USER
6.1.8 FastCgiModule not available
6.1.9 PHP Notice: Undefined index: AUTH_USER
6.1.10 PHP Notice: Undefined index: REMOTE_USER
6.1.11 The program can't start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer
6.1.12 The specified CGI application misbehaved
6.1.13 This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled
6.1.14 Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\php\php_mysql.dll'
6.1.15 Unable to load dynamic library './ext\php_oci8.dll'
6.1.16 Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user
6.2 PHP Documentor
6.2.1 Sorry, can't find the php.exe file.
6.3 Composer
6.3.1 The openssl extension is missing
6.4 PEAR
6.4.1 PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN is not set correctly
6.4.2 'pear' is not recognized
6.4.3 **ERROR** Please, enter the php.exe path
7. Appendix
7.1 PHP Versions
7.2 PHP Cons
7.3 PHP Pros
7.4 Cheat Sheets
7.4.1 Boolean
7.4.2 Integer
7.4.3 Float
7.4.4 Array
7.4.5 String
7.4.6 Date
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