PHP and MySQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 2nd Edition

PHP and MySQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach supplies you with complete code for all of the common coding problems you are likely to face when using PHP and MySQL together in your day-to-day web application development. This invaluable guide includes over 200 recipes and covers numerous topics.What you hold in your hands is the answer to all your PHP 5 needs.

First, this book is a source of instant solutions, including countless pieces of useful code that you can just copy and paste into your own applications, giving you answers fast and saving you hours of coding time. Second, this book is a useful reference to the most important aspects of the latest PHP scripting language, including the vital functions you know and love from previous versions of PHP, as well as the functions introduced in latest PHP 5.x.

Furthermore, this book explains the PHP functionality in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQL database extension. PHP and MySQL Recipes will be a useful and welcome companion throughout your career as a web developer, keeping you on the cutting edge of PHP development, ahead of the competition, and giving you all the answers you need, when you need them.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Installation and Configuration
Chapter 2: Classes and Objects
Chapter 3: Performing Math Operations
Chapter 4: Working with Arrays
Chapter 5: Dates and Times
Chapter 6: Strings
Chapter 7: Files and Directories
Chapter 8: Dynamic Imaging
Chapter 9: Regular Expressions
Chapter 10: Variables
Chapter 11: Functions
Chapter 12: Web Fundamentals
Chapter 13: Creating and Using Forms
Chapter 14: XML, RSS, WDDX, and SOAP
Chapter 15: Data Exchange with JSON
Chapter 16: Using MySQL Databases