PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

Version 2.21

Dr. Herong Yang

Copyright © 2003 - 2006 by Dr. Herong Yang. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Installing PHP 5.0.4 on Windows

• What Is PHP?
• Downloading PHP 5.0.4 for Windows
• My First PHP Script - Hello.php
• Installing PHP with IIS as CGI

PHP Syntax

• PHP Code Blocks
• PHP Processing Behavior
• PHP Comments and Statement Delimiter

Data Types and Variables

• Data Types
• Variables
• Constants

Operations and Expressions

• Operations
• Expressions

Flow Control Statements

• Conditional Statements
• Loop Statements

Functions

• User Defined Functions
• Passing and Returning References

Arrays

• What Is an Array in PHP?
• Array Related Built-in Functions

Sending Emails

• Using Local Windows System as a Mail Server
• Sending an Email with PHP

HTTP Request Variables

• Predefined Variables Related to HTTP Request
• Testing Request Variables - HttpRequestDetails.php
• Registering HTTP Request Variables as Global Variables

Sessions

• What is a Session?
• PHP's Session Support
• Session Test Scripts - SessionPageN.php
• Managing Session ID without Cookie
• Where Is Session Data Stored?

Using Cookies

• What is a Cookie?
• Sending and Receiving Cookies
• Output Control Functions
• Persistent Cookies
• Other Cookie Properties

Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines

• HTTP Response Syntax
• HTTP Response Header Lines
• Controlling Header Lines
• Viewing Header Lines
• Header Lines of Static Files
• Controlling Header Lines - Example Scripts
• Forcing the Browser to Redirect
• Generating Non-HTML Entity Body
• Sending Files for Downloading

Using MySQL with PHP

• Configuring PHP with MySQL
• PHP's MySQL Support
• MySQL Test - MySqlLoop.php

Directories, Files and Images

• Directory Functions
• File System Functions
• Image Functions
• ShowPhoto.php - Showing Images in a Directory

SOAP PHP Implementations

• PHP Implementations of SOAP
• Checking My PHP Installation on Windows
• Installing SOAP Library on Windows

PHP SOAP Extension

• What Is PHP SOAP Extension?
• GetTemp.php - First Example with SOAP
• PHP SOAP Extension Functions for Client Applications
• GetTempDump.php - Dumping Debugging Information
• Whis Is WSDL?
• Using SOAP Extension in non-WDSL Mode

PHP SOAP Extension - Server Applications

• PHP SOAP Extension Functions for Server Applications
• HelloServer.php - First SOAP Server Application
• HelloServer12.php - SOAP 1.2 Server Application
• HelloServerWsdl.php - SOAP 1.2 Server Application in WSDL Mode

Handling Non ASCII Characters - Overview

• What Is Localization / Internationalization?
• Managing Characters in Web Based Applications
• Character Traveling Paths
• ASCII Characters in PHP Pages

Non ASCII Characters in HTML documents

• Basic Rules
• French Characters in HTML Documents - UTF-8 Encoding
• French Characters in HTML Documents - ISO-8859-1 Encoding
• Chinese Characters in HTML Documents - UTF-8 Encoding
• Chinese Characters in HTML Documents - GB22312 Encoding
• Characters of Multiple Languages in HTML Documents

Non ASCII Characters as String Literals

• Basic Rules
• French Characters in String Literals - UTF-8 Encoding
• French Characters in String Literals - ISO-8859-1 Encoding
• Chinese Characters in String Literals - UTF-8 Encoding
• Chinese Characters in String Literals - GB2312 Encoding
• Characters of Multiple Languages in String Literals

Receiving Non ASCII Characters from Input Forms

• Basic Rules
• Receiving Non ASCII Characters with GET Method
• Receiving Non ASCII Characters with POST Method
• Receiving Non ASCII Characters in UTF-8
• Decoding HTML Entities

Managing Non ASCII Character Strings

• "mbstring" Extension
• "mbstring" Functions
• "mbstring" Basic Tests
• HTTP Input and Output Encoding

Non ASCII Characters with MySQL

• Storing Non ASCII Characters in Database
• Transmitting Non ASCII Characters to the Server
• MySqlUnicode.php - UTF-8 Sample Script

References

Key Words: array, CGI, CLI, cookie, database, directory, download, file, GB2312, header lines, HTTP, IIS, image, language, localization, mail, MySQL, non ASCII, output buffer, PHP, redirect, request, session, SMTP, SOAP, SOAP Extension, SQL, Unicode, WSDL.