Name: Learn PHP in One Day and Learn It Well
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Author: Jamie Chan

You no longer have to waste your time and money learning PHP from lengthy books, expensive online courses or fragmented PHP tutorials. This book covers all the major topics in PHP and is written in a concise and to the point manner. 

Learn PHP in One Day and Learn It Well

PHP is a popular open-source back-end language that’s grown up with the web. It’s huge, it’s free, and it has a vibrant community behind it.

Preface

Thank you for picking up this book. I’m so glad you chose this book, and I sincerely hope the book can help you master PHP and introduce you to the world of dynamic web programming.

Introduction to PHP

As mentioned in the previous chapter, we’ll learn to set up our web server and install the PHP interpreter in this chapter. In addition, as we’ll be using PHP to interact with a database later in this book, we need to set up our database server too.

Installing XAMPP

In the previous chapter, we installed XAMPP and Brackets and coded our first PHP script.

Basic PHP Tasks

Cool! We’ve come to Chapter 4. In this chapter, we are going to learn about constants and variables. In addition, we’ll talk about the data that variables store and the different operations we can perform on them.

Constants, Variables, Data Types and Operators in PHP

In the previous chapter, we looked at some of the basic data types in PHP. In this chapter, we’ll discuss two more data types - strings and arrays. You can create a new file named chap5.php to test the examples in this chapter.

More Data Types in PHP

Congratulations on making it to Chapter 6; this is where the fun begins!

Control Structures in PHP

In this chapter, let’s move on to talk about functions.

Functions

We’ve covered a lot in the preceding chapters. Most of the topics covered so far are fundamental concepts common to other programming languages. In this chapter, we are going to learn something specific to PHP - PHP superglobals.

PHP Superglobals

In the next two chapters, we are going to cover another important concept in PHP - the concept of object-oriented programming (OOP).

Object-Oriented Programming

In the previous chapter, we covered the fundamentals of OOP. Some of the concepts in OOP can be confusing for beginners. If this is the first time you are exposed to OOP, you may want to read through the previous chapter more than once to fully grasp the concepts.

Inheritance

In this chapter, let’s move on to talk about databases. Whenever we work with websites, it is highly likely that we need to store information (such as data entered by users) in a database.

Interacting with a Database

We’ve come to the last chapter before our project. In this chapter, we are going to learn to manage errors and exceptions in our PHP scripts.

Managing Errors and Exceptions

Congratulations on making it to the end of the book! We’ve covered a lot in the preceding chapters.

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