What's Unusual About This Book? This booklike other books in the Spring Into… Seriesincludes the following elements: Each topic is explained in a discrete one- or two-page unit called a "chunk." Each chunk builds on the previous chunks in that chapter. Most chunks contain one or more examples. I believe that good examples provide the foundation for almost all useful technical documents. Many chunks contain sidebars that provide helpful, ancillary material.
In addition, this book is filled with examplesdozens of thembecause seeing a working example is the best way to learn this material. Here are just a few included topics: Reading data from a web page's text fields, radio buttons, check boxes, and list boxes on the server Creating and handling image maps Tracking users with sessions and cookies Writing data to files on the server (such as guest books) Recovering from errors without crashing Connecting to databases on the server Using SQL to work with databases Drawing images on-the-fly and sending them back to the browser Handling strings and arrays Working with the PHP operators Creating functions Creating classes and objects Using FTP from PHP Sending email from PHP Using sessions to preserve data between page accesses The complete PHP syntax
There's a lot to PHP, and there's a lot to this book. Our plan is to cram as much PHP into the book as we can. |