PHP: The Good Parts

Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari?? Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Good Parts; 1.1 Why PHP?; 1.2 Basic PHP Setup; Chapter 2: Casing the Joint; 2.1 Whitespace, Comments, and Basic Syntax; 2.2 Variables: Data Types, Loose Typing, and Scope; 2.3 Defined Constants; 2.4 Expressions; 2.5 Decisions, Decisions (Flow Control); 2.6 Integration with Web Pages; Chapter 3: Functions (Doing It Once); 3.1 Parameter Passing; 3.2 Default Parameters; 3.3 Passing by Value Versus Passing by Reference; 3.4 Include and Require; 3.5 Built-In Functions Versus UDFs; Chapter 4: Strings; 4.1 What Is a String?; 4.2 You Can Quote Me; 4.3 String Functions (Best of); Chapter 5: Arrays; 5.1 Indexed Arrays; 5.2 Associative Arrays; 5.3 Arrays from Another Dimension; 5.4 Arrays Can Be Dynamic; 5.5 Traversing Arrays; 5.6 Array Functions (Best of); Chapter 6: Objects; 6.1 Putting It into Practice; 6.2 Magic Methods; 6.3 $this; 6.4 Objects in Action; 6.5 Public, Protected, and Private; 6.6 Getters and Setters; Chapter 7: Database Interaction; 7.1 MySQLi Object Interface; 7.2 Retrieving Data for Display; 7.3 PHP Data Objects; 7.4 PDO Prepared Statements; 7.5 Data Management on the Cheap; 7.6 File Management As a Database Alternative; Chapter 8: PHP and Friends; 8.1 Email/SMS Generation; 8.2 PDF Generation; 8.3 Graphical Reports Generation; Chapter 9: PHP Security; 9.1 Data Validation; 9.2 Escape Output; 9.3 Cross-Site Scripting (XXS) and SQL Injection; 9.4 Password Encryption Security; 9.5 Security Tips; Chapter 10: PHP 5.3 Good Parts; 10.1 Namespaces; 10.2 Closures (Anonymous Functions); 10.3 NOWDOC; 10.4 goto Operator; 10.5 DateTime and DateTimeZone Classes; 10.6 Additional 5.3 Features; Chapter 11: Advanced Goodness; 11.1 Regular Expressions; 11.2 SimpleXML; 11.3 Integrated Development Environments; 11.4 Primary Websites; The Bad Parts; goto; Function Naming and Parameter Order; Loose Typing; Register Globals; Is That All?; Colophon;