Last Word: CSS I am not teaching HTML or CSS; it is a pain and it is outside the scope of this talk. CSS is not perfect; you will end up blending old stuff with as much CSS as you can.

It’sa well-known fact that most of the formatting characters used by date() and strftime() seem to bear no logical relationship with the values they represent. Even the formatting characters, m (month) and d (date), used with date() aren’t completely straightforward. Do they output a leading zero or not? (They do.) But if you don’t [...]

Marcus Börger Introduction to object oriented PHP 4 What does OOP aim to achieve? Allow compartmentalized refactoring of code Promote code re-use Promote extensibility, flexibility and … … adaptability Better for team development Many patterns are designed for OOP Some patterns lead to much more efficient code Do you need to use OOP to [...]

Within the last few years, PHP has grown to be the most widespread web platform in the world, operational in more than a third of the web servers across the globe. PHP’s growth is not only quantitative but also qualitative. More and more companies, including Fortune companies, rely on PHP to run their business-critical applications, [...]

1 Introduction 1.1 PHP PHP [1] is a widely-used general-purpose programming language that is especially suited for Web development. It is dynamically typed and supports both procedural and object-oriented programming. For the latter it provides a class-based object model that is similar to those of C# or Java. 1.2 AspectPHP The goal of the AspectPHP [...]

Why OOP? • Modularity • Operation isolation • Better code reuse • Flexibility • Maintainability Classes • Define the characteristics and behaviors for a thing in the system • Nouns • e.g. a car has a make and model and can accelerate and turn Class Example class Car { public $make; // Characteristic public $model; [...]

Web programming is probably why you’re reading this book. It’s why the first version of PHP was written and what continues to make it so popular today. With PHP, it’s easy to write dynamic web programs that do almost anything. Other chapterscover various PHP capabilities,like graphics,regular expressions,database access, and file I/O. These capabilities are [...]

Developing a Application Using PHP and MySQL Web Database. So you need to develop an interactive Web site. Perhaps your boss just put you in charge of the company’s online product catalog. Or you want to develop your own Web business. Or your sister wants to sell her paintings online. Or you volunteered to put [...]

What Is New in PHP 5? “The best way to be ready for the future is to invent it.”— John Sculley 1.1 I NTRODUCTION Only time will tell if the PHP 5 release will be as successful as its two predecessors (PHP 3 and PHP 4). The new features and changes aim to rid PHP [...]

Is there an easier way to do this? You?d better believe it. The ability to include the contents of one document in another document is something that can make site maintenance much easier. The concept is simple – have one set of code to maintain rather than the same code all over the place. Then, [...]