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This book is arranged in manner how a layman could easily understand the basics of PHP without having any background knowledge of programming language, so a reader can read it from beginning to end, or jump around to the topics of interest. The book is divided into eight chapters as follows:
Chapter 1 gives details about PHP, its history and gives a lightning-fast overview of what is possible with PHP programs. It also gives a concise guide to PHP program elements such as identifiers, data types, operators, and flow-control statements. Chapter 2 presents an overview of HTML, requirement for HTML, basic HTML tags and advanced HTML tags of Frames and Forms. This chapter also covers the input tag in detail with its role in web programming. Chapter 3 describes some basic knowledge about functions, including scope, parameter lists and types of functions. Also this chapter covers the PHP`s object oriented features such as class, objects, constructor, destructor, inheritance, and method overriding. Chapter 4 describes advanced web programming basics such as cookies, sessions, HTTP Headers and embedding external files in PHP. Chapter 5 presents the possible operations with PHP files and directuries. Chapter 6 gives an introduction about MySQL and its need to modern web programming as well as functions used in PHP to connect with MySQL database . This chapter also speaks about some of the important MySQL predefined functions and about Joins with example for all concepts. Chapter 7 illustrates case studies on applications of PHP and MySQL. Finally, Chapter 8 presents a set of illustrative programs for easier understanding. ISBN - 9789350515815
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Pages : 196
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