PHP in a Nutshell By Paul Hudson
Chapter 1. Introduction to PHP:
Section 1.1. PHP History
Section 1.2. Advantages of PHP
Section 1.3. Getting Help
Section 1.4. Getting Certified
Section 1.5. PHP Resources
Chapter 2. Installing PHP:
Section 2.1. Installing on Windows
Section 2.2. Installing on Unix
Section 2.3. Testing Your Configuration
Section 2.4. System Configuration
Chapter 3. The PHP Interpreter
Section 3.1. Running PHP Scripts
Section 3.2. Extending PHP
Section 3.3. PEAR
Section 3.4. Abnormal Script Termination
Chapter 4. The PHP Language:
Section 4.1. The Basics of PHP
Section 4.2. Variables
Section 4.3. Whitespace
Section 4.4. Heredoc
Section 4.5. Brief Introduction to Variable Types
Section 4.6. Code Blocks
Section 4.7. Opening and Closing Code Islands
Section 4.8. Comments
Section 4.9. Conditional Statements
Section 4.10. Case Switching
Section 4.11. Loops
Section 4.12. Infinite Loops
Section 4.13. Special Loop Keywords
Section 4.14. Loops Within Loops
Section 4.15. Mixed-Mode Processing
Section 4.16. Including Other Files
Section 4.17. Functions
Chapter 5. Variables and Constants :
Section 5.1. Types of Data
Section 5.2. True or False
Section 5.3. Strings
Section 5.4. Integers
Section 5.5. Floats
Section 5.6. Automatic Type Conversion
Section 5.7. Checking Whether a Variable Is Set: isset( )
Section 5.8. Variable Scope
Section 5.9. Variable Variables
Section 5.10. Superglobals
Section 5.11. Using $_ENV and $_SERVER
Section 5.12. References
Section 5.13. Constants
Section 5.14. Arrays
Chapter 6. Operators:
Section 6.1. Arithmetic Operators
Section 6.2. Assignment Operators
Section 6.3. String Operators
Section 6.4. Bitwise Operators
Section 6.5. Comparison Operators
Section 6.6. Incrementing and Decrementing Operators
Section 6.7. Logical Operators
Section 6.8. Some Operator Examples
Section 6.9. The Ternary Operator
Section 6.10. The Execution Operator
Section 6.11. Operator Precedence and Associativity
Chapter 7. Function Reference:
Section 7.1. Undocumented Functions
Section 7.2. Handling Non-English Characters
Chapter 8. Object-Oriented PHP:
Section 8.1. Conceptual Overview
Section 8.2. Classes
Section 8.3. Objects
Section 8.4. Properties
Section 8.5. The 'this' Variable
Section 8.6. Objects Within Objects
Section 8.7. Access Control Modifiers
Section 8.8. Object Type Information
Section 8.9. Class Type Hints
Section 8.10. Constructors and Destructors
Section 8.11. Copying Objects
Section 8.12. Comparing Objects with == and ===
Section 8.13. Saving Objects
Section 8.14. Magic Methods
Section 8.15. Static Class Methods and Properties
Section 8.16. Helpful Utility Functions
Section 8.17. Interfaces
Section 8.18. Dereferencing Object Return Values
Chapter 9. HTML Forms:
Section 9.1. What Does It Mean to Be Dynamic?
Section 9.2. Designing a Form
Section 9.3. Handling Data
Section 9.4. Splitting Forms Across Pages
Section 9.5. Validating Input
Section 9.6. Form Design
Chapter 10. Cookies and Sessions:
Section 10.1. Cookies Versus Sessions
Section 10.2. Using Cookies
Section 10.3. Using Sessions
Section 10.4. Storing Complex Data Types
Chapter 11. Output Buffering:
Section 11.1. Why Use Output Buffering?
Section 11.2. Getting Started
Section 11.3. Reusing Buffers
Section 11.4. Stacking Buffers
Section 11.5. Flushing Stacked Buffers
Section 11.6. Reading Buffers
Section 11.7. Other OB Functions
Section 11.8. Flushing Output
Section 11.9. Compressing Output
Section 11.10. URL Rewriting
Chapter 12. Security:
Section 12.1. Security Tips
Section 12.2. Encryption
Chapter 13. Files :
Section 13.1. Reading Files
Section 13.2. Creating and Changing Files
Section 13.3. Moving, Copying, and Deleting Files
Section 13.4. Other File Functions
Section 13.5. Checking Whether a File Exists
Section 13.6. Retrieving File Time Information
Section 13.7. Dissecting Filename Information
Section 13.8. Handling File Uploads
Section 13.9. Locking Files with flock( )
Section 13.10. Reading File Permissions and Status
Section 13.11. Changing File Permissions and Ownership
Section 13.12. Working with Links
Section 13.13. Working with Directories
Section 13.14. Remote Files
Section 13.15. File Checksums
Section 13.16. Parsing a Configuration File
Chapter 14. Databases :
Section 14.1. Using MySQL with PHP
Section 14.2. PEAR::DB
Section 14.3. SQLite
Section 14.4. Persistent Connections
Section 14.5. MySQL Improved
Chapter 15. Regular Expressions :
Section 15.1. Basic Regexps with preg_match( ) and preg_match_all( )
Section 15.2. Regexp Character Classes
Section 15.3. Regexp Special Characters
Section 15.4. Words and Whitespace Regexps
Section 15.5. Storing Matched Strings
Section 15.6. Regular Expression Replacements
Section 15.7. Regular Expression Syntax Examples
Section 15.8. The Regular Expressions Coach
Chapter 16. Manipulating Images :
Section 16.1. Getting Started
Section 16.2. Choosing a Format
Section 16.3. Getting Arty
Section 16.4. More Shapes
Section 16.5. Complex Shapes
Section 16.6. Outputting Text
Section 16.7. Loading Existing Images
Section 16.8. Color and Image Fills
Section 16.9. Adding Transparency
Section 16.10. Using Brushes
Section 16.11. Basic Image Copying
Section 16.12. Scaling and Rotating
Section 16.13. Points and Lines
Section 16.14. Special Effects Using imagefilter( )
Section 16.15. Interlacing an Image
Section 16.16. Getting an Image's MIME Type
Chapter 17. Creating PDFs :
Section 17.1. Getting Started
Section 17.2. Adding More Pages and More Style
Section 17.3. Adding Images
Section 17.4. PDF Special Effects
Section 17.5. Adding Document Data
Chapter 18. Creating Flash :
Section 18.1. A Simple Movie
Section 18.2. Flash Text
Section 18.3. Actions
Section 18.4. Animation
Chapter 19. XML & XSLT :
Section 19.1. SimpleXML
Section 19.2. Transforming XML Using XSLT
Chapter 20. Network Programming :
Section 20.1. Sockets
Section 20.2. HTTP
Section 20.3. Sending Mail
Section 20.4. Curl
Chapter 21. Distributing Your Code:
Section 21.1. Cross-Platform Code 1: Loading Extensions
Section 21.2. Cross-Platform Code 2: Using Extensions
Section 21.3. Cross-Platform Code 3: Path and Line Separators
Section 21.4. Cross-Platform Code 4: Coping with php.ini Differences
Section 21.5. Cross-Platform Code 5: Checking the PHP Version with phpversion( ) and version_compare( )
Chapter 22. Debugging :
Section 22.1. The Most Basic Debugging Technique
Section 22.2. Making Assertions
Section 22.3. Triggering Your Own Errors
Section 22.4. Testing with php_check_syntax( )
Section 22.5. Source Highlighting
Section 22.6. Handling MySQL Errors
Section 22.7. Exception Handling
Section 22.8. Backtracing Your Code
Section 22.9. Custom Error Handlers
Section 22.10. Custom Exception Handlers
Section 22.11. Using @ to Disable Errors
Section 22.12. phpinfo( ).Download