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The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition
Table of Contents
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- Preface
- Who Should Read this Book?
- What’s Covered in this Book?
- Running the Code Examples
- The Book’s Web Site
- The Code Archive
- Updates and Errata
- The SitePoint Forums
- The SitePoint Newsletters
- Your Feedback
- Conventions Used in this Book
- Code Samples
- Tips, Notes, and Warnings
- Introduction
- Where do I get help?
- What is OOP?
- How do I write portable PHP code?
- Summary
- Using Databases with PDO
- What is PDO?
- How do I access a database?
- How do I fetch data from a table?
- How do I resolve errors in my SQL queries?
- How do I add data to, or modify data in, my database?
- How do I protect my web site from an SQL injection attack?
- How do I create flexible SQL statements?
- How do I find out how many rows I’ve touched?
- How do I find out a new INSERT’s row number in an autoincrementing field?
- How do I search my table?
- How do I work with transactions?
- How do I use stored procedures with PDO?
- How do I back up my database?
- Summary
- Strings
- How do I output strings safely?
- How do I preserve formatting?
- How do I strip HTML tags from text?
- How do I force text to wrap after a certain number of characters?
- How do I perform advanced search and replace operations?
- How do I break up text into an array of lines?
- How do I trim whitespace from text?
- How do I output formatted text?
- How do I validate submitted data?
- Summary
- Dates and Times
- How do I use Unix timestamps?
- How do I obtain the current date?
- How do I find a day of the week?
- How do I find the number of days in a month?
- How do I create a calendar?
- How do I store dates in MySQL?
- How do I format MySQL timestamps?
- How do I perform date calculations using MySQL?
- Summary
- Forms, Tables, and Pretty URLs
- How do I build HTML forms with PHP?
- How do I display data in a table?
- How do I display data in a sortable table?
- How do I create a customized data grid?
- How do I make “pretty” URLs in PHP?
- Summary
- Working with Files
- How do I read a local file?
- How do I use file handles?
- How do I modify a local file?
- How do I access information about a local file?
- How do I examine directories with PHP?
- How do I display PHP source code online?
- How do I store configuration information in a file?
- How do I access a file on a remote server?
- How do I use FTP from PHP?
- How do I manage file downloads with PHP?
- How do I create compressed ZIP/TAR files with PHP?
- How do I work with files using the Standard PHP Library in PHP 5?
- Summary
- Email
- How do I send a simple email?
- How do I simplify the generation of complex emails?
- How do I add attachments to messages?
- How do I send HTML email?
- How do I mail a message to a group of people?
- How do I handle incoming mail with PHP?
- How can I protect my site against email injection attacks?
- Summary
- Images
- How do I specify the correct image MIME type?
- How do I create thumbnail images?
- How do I resize images without stretching them?
- How can I put together a simple thumbnail gallery?
- How do I extract EXIF information from images?
- How do I add a watermark to an image?
- How do I display charts and graphs with PHP?
- How do I prevent the hotlinking of images?
- How do I create images that can be verified by humans only?
- Summary
- Error Handling
- What error levels does PHP report?
- What built-in settings does PHP offer for error handling?
- How can I trigger PHP errors?
- How do I implement a custom error handler with PHP?
- How do I log and report errors?
- How can I use PHP exceptions for error handling?
- How do I create a custom
Exceptionclass? - How do I implement a custom exception handler with PHP?
- How can I handle PHP errors as if they were exceptions?
- How do I display errors and exceptions gracefully?
- How do I redirect users to another page following an error condition?
- Summary
- Access Control
- How do I use HTTP authentication?
- How do I use sessions?
- How do I create a session class?
- How do I create a class to control access to a section of the site?
- How do I build a registration system?
- How do I deal with members who forget their passwords?
- How do I let users change their passwords?
- How to do I build a permissions system?
- How do I store sessions in a database?
- Summary
- Caching
- How do I prevent web browsers from caching a page?
- How do I control client-side caching?
- How do I examine HTTP headers in my browser?
- How do I cache file downloads with Internet Explorer?
- How do I use output buffering for server-side caching?
- How do I cache just the parts of a page that change infrequently?
- How do I use PEAR::Cache_Lite for server-side caching?
- What configuration options does
Cache_Litesupport? - How do I purge the
Cache_Litecache? - How do I cache function calls?
- Summary
- XML and Web Services
- Which XML technologies are available in PHP 5?
- Why should I use PHP’s XML extensions instead of PHP string functions?
- How do I parse an RSS feed?
- How do I generate an RSS feed?
- How do I search for a node or content in XML?
- How can I consume XML-RPC web services?
- How do I serve my own XML-RPC web services?
- How can I consume SOAP web services?
- How do I serve SOAP web services?
- How can I consume REST services?
- How can I serve REST services?
- Summary
- Best Practices
- How do I track revisions to my project’s code?
- How can I maintain multiple versions of a single codebase?
- How can I write distributable code?
- How can I document my code for later reference by myself or others?
- How can I ensure future changes to my code won’t break current functionality?
- How can I determine what remains to be tested?
- I’ve reviewed some of my old code, and it’s horrible. How can I make it better?
- How can I deploy code safely?
- Summary
Appendix
- PHP Configuration
- Configuration Mechanisms
- Key Security and Portability Settings
- Includes and Execution Settings
- Error-related Settings
- Miscellaneous Settings
- Hosting Provider Checklist
- General Issues
- Does the host support Linux and Apache?
- Does the host provide you with SSH access to the server?
- Is the host a reseller, or does it maintain servers itself?
- To what degree does the host “overload” the server?
- What’s the hosting provider’s policy on running scripts and programs from the command line?
- Does the host provide you access to cron, the Unix utility that allows you to schedule batch jobs?
- PHP-related Issues
- Can you see the output of phpinfo on the server you will actually be assigned to?
- Is PHP installed as an Apache module (not the CGI variant)?
- Is the Apache settingAllowOverride set to
OptionsorAll? - Is PHP Safe Mode disabled?
- Check the upgrade policy of your host.
- Ask for a list of installed PHP extensions.
- Will PHP be available for use from the command line?
- What’s the host’s knowledge of PHP?
- Security Checklist
- Top Security Vulnerabilities
- Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
- Injection Flaws
- Malicious File Execution
- Insecure Direct Object Reference
- Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling
- Broken Authentication and Session Management
- Insecure Cryptographic Storage
- Insecure Communications
- Failure to Restrict URL Access
- Working with PEAR
- Installing PEAR
- The PEAR Package Manager
- Installing Packages Manually
- Alternatives to PEAR
- Index
- Top Security Vulnerabilities
- General Issues
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Jerome Pfeifer, USA 
A thoughtful, well written book. I've been using PHP since 2002 and this is truly one of the better books I've come across. The projects are diverse and interesting enough to keep interest at a high level. It's given me new takes on old problems as well. If you're new to PHP I wouldn't start out with this book. Get the basics from a Sam's intro and then immediately dive into this book. I wouldn't say the projects are commercial grade but they give you the basic structure to actually author code companies will pay good $$$ for. This book is well worth the price and time spent.
If I had to reduce my library to just three books, this would be one of them. If you add a good intro book and a complete up-to-date reference, you are equipped to earn a living.
Mark D Strong, USA
Love this book! It's not a "learn how to do it" type of book, but more of a "here's the code, adapt it to your needs" type. There are some great projects included. I still haven't gotten to all of them yet, and there are some that I will probably never use, but just the few that I already have are well worth the purchase price.
Ray Flash, USA 
The first edition of this book was one of the best books on PHP programming I ever came across. In clear problem-solution structure the book is guiding through the main areas of web programming in PHP, and it helped me immensely in raising my programming standards. The second edition was re-written to accommodate the introduction of PHP5 keeping the same problem-solution approach which worked so well in the first edition, and the authors did very good job indeed. The only downside to this otherwise excellent position is in my opinion; lack of more detailed explanations of certain subjects, and restricted number of topics mentioned in the book. Never the less I recommend this book to any PHP programmer as a good source of reference, the only exception is if you are new to programming this book might be difficult to digest at first so I recommend to get one of the introductory books to PHP and then definitely this one.
Tom Zglobicki, Spain
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Both books help me build applications more consistents. Now, the time apply in development was reduced due the reutilization.
FABIO BARTOLOMEU SANTANA, Brazil
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I'm new to server scripting as part of my course work, it will come in very handy. Thank you
Peter Francis Wiley, USA
[written for previous edition]
As ever, prompt delivery of excellent texts by Sitepoint. Many thanks!
Pete Wright, United Kingdom
[written for previous edition]
I haven't really read much of it due to lack of time, but i've seen that the subjects i was looking for are in some way availble. Structure of the books, as always good and pleasant to read.
Roelof de Jong, Netherlands 
[written for previous edition]
I expected little bit deeper knowlage for some points, but in general very useful.
Raido Paaslepp, Estonia
[written for previous edition]
These two books are the first PHP books that really helped me understand some basic PHP and on the other hand how to write OOP for PHP.
Keep up the good work!
D.J. Jongerden - Websteen.nl, USA
[written for previous edition]
Really great books! Usefull techniques, very well explained, which can be immediately used in my own projects.
It is the first book, that exactly learned me to understand OOP in PHP.
Han Wijman, Netherlands
[written for previous edition]
Will take time to consume all the helpful information
Nick Bailey, Australia
[written for previous edition]
I have not read them yet. They came much to late for the project on which I was working, so I did the project in ColdFusion. I'll get to them after the first of the year, I imagine.
Al Lustie, USA 
[written for previous edition]
Book is more advance than I thought, based on the description.
Michael McGlynn, USA 
[written for previous edition]
Product Details
| Edition: |
2nd |
| Price: | $29.95 |
| Pages: | 520 |
| ISBN: | 0975841998 |
| Published: | Nov 2007 |
| Last Updated: | Never |
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