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Generating HTML Generating Dynamic Content Working with the Filesystem HTTP Authentication Working with Email Calendar and Date Functions 3.. Database Access Working with Connectio

R Allen Wyke

For Bryant, Emily, Alex, and Jaclyn (the newest edition) - you all make me happy and proud to be an uncle

Michael J Walker

To Hien Do, who taught me what it means to work hard, and what rewards come with it

Robert Cox

To Kaitlin and Austin, the best things that could happen to

a daddy I love you both

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Tell Us What You Think!

Introduction

Who Should Buy This Book?

Organization of the Chapters

Writing Conventions

1 Basic PHP

Background and History

Advantages of PHP 4

Installation

Operators and Mathematical Functions

Functions, Classes, and Objects

2 Generating HTML

Generating Dynamic Content

Working with the Filesystem

HTTP Authentication

Working with Email

Calendar and Date Functions

3 Database Access

Working with Connections and Data Sources

Using PostgreSQL and PHP

Select, Insert, Update, and Delete Queries

Other Database Functions

4 The Core PHP 4 Language

Basic Syntax

5 PHP Language Extensions

Arbitrary-Precision Mathematics

Array

Dynamic Loading

Hash()

Mathematical

Miscellaneous

PHP Options and Information

String

Variable

6 Protocol Extensions

FTP

HTTP

IMAP, POP3, and NNTP

LDAP

SNMP

7 Internet-Related Extensions

Network

Session Handling

URL

VMailMgr

WDDX

8 Document-Related Extensions

Aspell

Pspell

ClibPDF

Forms Data Format

Hyperwave

PDF

XML Parser

9 System Extensions

Directory

Filesystem

NIS

POSIX

Program Execution

Semaphore and Shared Memory

10 Chapter Database Extensions

Database Abstraction Layer

dBASE

DBM

FilePro

Informix

InterBase

Microsoft SQL Server

mSQL

MySQL

ODBC

Oracle

Oracle 8

PostgreSQL

Sybase

11 Chapter Utility Extensions

Calendar

Compression

Date and Time

Encryption

GNU Recode

Image

Regular Expressions

12 PHP Compilation Options

Enable, Disable, and Help

With

13 PHP Directives

General

Extension Loading

Browser Compatibility

Mail

Database

BC Math

Debugger

Safe Mode

Apache

About the Authors

R Allen Wyke

R Allen Wyke, of Durham, North Carolina, is a Director of Product Technology at Engage's Software division—a profile-driven, online marketing solutions company At Engage, he works with product managers, product marketing, and engineering to ensure that products have the proper vision and direction in both the online and offline worlds He is constantly working with XML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, and various other Internet technologies in implementing the online marketing software and services that Engage has to offer

He co-authored JavaScript Unleashed, 3rd Edition; Pure JavaScript;

The Perl 5 Programmer's Reference; and The Official Netscape Navigator 4 Book He also contributed to two other titles on the topics

of Web development: HTML Publishing on the Internet, 2nd Edition and The HTML 4 Programmer's Reference In addition, he used to write

a weekly column about Windows and UNIX integration for ITworld.com and wrote the monthly "Webmaster" column for SunWorld

Michael J Walker

Michael J Walker, of Knightdale, North Carolina is a Senior Systems Engineer for Engage, Inc At Engage, he currently serves as a technical resource for the field pre-sales engineers His previous work with Engage included heading the consulting and custom development teams as well as being a developer of custom Web applications using C/C++, HTML, JavaScript, and ODBC

While at Engage, he has also provided consultation to many of the top-tier Web sites in the U.S and throughout the world He has more than ten years of computer industry experience in various roles, including data processing operations, Internet software implementation, and client/server development He has developed software on many platforms ranging from micro-controllers to mainframes, using Assembly language, C/C++, SQL, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, and Java He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Theoretical Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Northern Illinois University

Robert Cox

Robert Cox, originally from Winslow, Arizona and now residing in Raleigh, North Carolina, is the Manager of Technical Support at Engage Technologies He is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering Technology He has a love of computers that dates back to 1980 when he continually snuck out of his high school American History class to work on programs in the local college computer lab