PHP Beyond the web

Table of Contents

• Welcome
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 “Use PHP? We’re not building a website, you know!”.
  • 1.2 Are you new to PHP?
  • 1.3 Reader prerequisites. Or, what this book isn’t
  • 1.4 An important note for Windows and Mac users
  • 1.5 About the sample code
  • 1.6 External resources
  • 1.7 Book formats/versions available, and access to updates
  • 1.8 English. The Real English.
• 2 Getting away from the Web - the basics
  • 2.1 PHP without a web server
  • 2.2 PHP versions - what’s yours?
  • 2.3 A few good reasons NOT to do it in PHP
  • 2.4 Thinking about security
• 3 Understanding the CLI SAPI, and why you need to
  • 3.1 What’s different about the CLI SAPI?
  • 3.2 CLI SAPI installation
  • 3.3 PHP command line options
  • 3.4 Command line arguments for your script
  • 3.5 The many ways to call PHP scripts
  • 3.6 “Click to Run” your PHP
  • 3.7 Quitting your script
• 4 Development tools
  • 4.1 PHP REPLs
  • 4.2 Build systems
  • 4.3 Continuous Integration
  • 4.4 Debuggers
  • 4.5 Testing and Unit Testing
  • 4.6 Static code analysis
  • 4.7 Virtual development & testing environments
  • 4.8 Source/version control systems & code repositories
  • 4.9 IDEs and editors
  • 4.10 Documentation generators
  • 4.11 Profilers
  • 4.12 Other tools
• 5 User facing software
  • 5.1 Command line interface basics
  • 5.2 Advanced command line input
  • 5.3 Using STDIN, STOUT & STDERR
  • 5.4 Partial GUI elements - dialogs
  • 5.5 Dialogs invoked from the shell
  • 5.6 Windows dialogs
  • 5.7 Static HTML output
  • 5.8 Complete graphical interfaces (GUIs)
  • 5.9 Understanding GUI and event-based programming
  • 5.10 PHP-GTK
  • 5.11 wxPHP
  • 5.12 Local web server & browser
  • 5.13 PHP’s Built-in testing server
  • 5.14 Web sockets & browser
  • 5.15 SiteFusion
  • 5.16 Winbinder
  • 5.17 Adobe AIR
  • 5.18 Titanium
  • 5.19 PHP-Qt
  • 5.20 PHP/TK
• 6 System software
  • 6.1 Daemons in PHP
  • 6.2 Creating a daemon
  • 6.3 Network daemons using libevent
  • 6.4 File monitoring daemons using inotify
  • 6.5 Task dispatch & management systems
  • 6.6 Gearman and PHP
  • 6.7 Other task dispatch systems
• 7 Interacting with other software
  • 7.1 Starting external processes from PHP, or “shelling out”
  • 7.2 Talking to other processes
  • 7.3 Semaphores
  • 7.4 Shared Memory
  • 7.5 PHP message queues
  • 7.6 Third party message queues
  • 7.7 APC cached variables
  • 7.8 Virtual files - tmpfs
  • 7.9 Standard streams
  • 7.10 Linux signals
  • 7.11 Task dispatch & management systems
• 8 Talking to the system
  • 8.1 Filesystem interactions
  • 8.2 Data files & formats
  • 8.3 Dealing with large files
  • 8.4 Understanding filesystem interactions
  • 8.5 The PHP file status and realpath caches
  • 8.6 Working with cross platform & remote filesystems
  • 8.7 Accessing the Windows Registry
  • 8.8 Linux signals
  • 8.9 Linux timed-event signals
  • 8.10 Printing (to paper)
  • 8.11 Audio
  • 8.12 Databases - no change here
  • 8.13 Other hardware and system interactions
• 9 Performance & stability - profiling and improving
  • 9.1 The background on performance
  • 9.2 Specific issues for general purpose programming
  • 9.3 Profile, profile, profile!
  • 9.4 Manual profiling
  • 9.5 Profiling tools
  • 9.6 Low level profiling
  • 9.7 Profiling - the likely results
  • 9.8 Silver bullets
  • 9.9 Silver bullet #1 - Better hardware
  • 9.10 Silver bullet #2 - Newer PHP versions
  • 9.11 Silver bullet #3 - Opcode caching
  • 9.12 Silver bullet #4 - Compiling
  • 9.13 Silver bullet #5 - JIT compilers and alternative Virtual Machines
  • 9.14 The SPL - Standard PHP Library
  • 9.15 Garbage collection
  • 9.16 Multi-threading and concurrent programming in PHP
  • 9.17 Big data and PHP - MapReduce
  • 9.18 Data caching
  • 9.19 Know thy functions
  • 9.20 Outsourcing code to other languages
  • 9.21 Other performance tips and tricks
  • 9.22 Stability and performance of long running processes
  • 9.23 Avoid micro and premature optimisations
• 10 Distribution and deployment issues
  • 10.1 Error handling and logging
  • 10.2 Installers and bundling files
  • 10.3 Embedded data files at end of PHP script
  • 10.4 Phar executable bundles
  • 10.5 Generic installers
  • 10.6 Controlling the (PHP) environment
  • 10.7 Extending your application with plug-ins
  • 10.8 Documentation
  • 10.9 Licensing & legal
  • 10.10 Deploying frameworks
• 11 Where now? or, Thanks & feedback
  • 11.1 Giving feedback, and getting help and support
  • 11.2 Giving testimonials
  • 11.3 Are you reading a “pirated” copy?
• Appendix A : Compiling and installing PHP and its extensions
  • Compiling and installing PHP itself
  • Compiling and installing (extra) core extensions
  • Installing multiple versions of PHP
  • PEAR and PECL
  • Composer
  • Symfony2 bundles
• Appendix B : File & data format libraries for PHP
  • Office documents
  • Compression, archiving & encryption
  • Graphics
  • Audio
  • Multimedia & video
  • Programming, technical and data interchange
  • Misc
• Appendix C : Sources of help
  • The PHP manual
  • Official mailing lists
  • Stack Overflow
  • Other books
  • Newsgroups
  • PHP Subredit
  • PHP on Github
  • PHP news sites
• Appendix D : Interesting libraries, tools, articles and projects
  • Alternative programming styles
  • Machine learning, artificial intelligence and data analysis
  • Databases
  • Natural language
  • Graphics and imaging
  • Unicode
  • Audio
  • Event driven PHP
  • PHP internals
  • Website/service APIs
  • Security related
  • Javascript
  • Servers
  • Programming
  • Financial
  • Hardware
• Appendix E : Integrated Development Environments for PHP
  • Opensource
  • Commercial
• Appendix F : Changelog