PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Introduction and Installation of PHP 5.4.3

∟Downloading and Installing PHP 5.4.3 for Windows

1. Go to http://windows.php.net/download/ and download the "PHP 5.4 (5.4.3) - VC9 x86 Thread Safe (2012-May-08 18:26:37)" binary version for Windows. You will get a file called php-5.4.3-Win32-VC9-x86.zip of 14.44MB.

2. Unzip php-5.4.3-Win32-VC9-x86.zip to \php directory.

3. Open a command window, and try the following commands:

>\php\php -v
PHP 5.4.3 (cli) (built: May  8 2012 00:51:31)
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies

>\php\php-cgi -v
PHP 5.4.3 (cgi-fcgi) (built: May  8 2012 00:51:30)
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies

Cool, both Command Line Interface (CLI) and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) of PHP are working!

Last update: 2012.

Table of Contents

 About This PHP Tutorial Book

►Introduction and Installation of PHP 5.4.3

 What Is PHP?

►Downloading and Installing PHP 5.4.3 for Windows

 "php -help" - Command Line Options

 "php -m" - Built-in Modules

 "php -i" - PHP Engine Information

 Hello.php - My First PHP Script

 PHP Script File Syntax

 PHP Data Types and Data Literals

 Variables, References, and Constants

 Expressions, Operations and Type Conversions

 Conditional Statements - "if" and "switch"

 Loop Statements - "while", "for", and "do ... while"

 Function Declaration, Arguments, and Return Values

 Arrays - Ordered Maps

 Configuring and Sending out Emails

 Retrieving Information from HTTP Requests

 Creating and Managing Sessions in PHP Scripts

 Sending and Receiving Cookies in PHP Scripts

 Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines in PHP Scripts

 MySQL Server Connection and Access Functions

 Functions to Manage Directories, Files and Images

 SOAP Extension Function and Calling Web Services

 SOAP Server Functions and Examples

 Localization Overview of Web Applications

 Using Non-ASCII Characters in HTML Documents

 Using Non-ASCII Characters as PHP Script String Literals

 Receiving Non-ASCII Characters from Input Forms

 "mbstring" Extension and Non-ASCII Encoding Management

 Managing Non-ASCII Character Strings with MySQL Servers

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version