PHP Modules Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Introduction and Installation of PHP

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on PHP installation. Topics include quick introduction of PHP, downloading and installing PHP engine, PHP command line options, writing first PHP script.

What Is PHP

Downloading and Installing PHP 7.3 for Windows

"php -help" - Command Line Options

"php -m" - Built-in Modules

"php -i" - PHP Engine Information

php.ini - PHP Runtime Configuration

Hello.php - My First PHP Script

"php -a" - PHP Interactive Shell

Downloading and Installing PHP Documentation

Takeaways:

• PHP is becoming the most popular Web server-side scripting language now.
• Downloading and installing the standard PHP build for Windows systems is easy.
• "php hello.php" command runs PHP script code stored in hello.php.
• "php -a" command allows you to run PHP scripts interactively.
• "php -m" command lists all built-in modules.
• "php -i" command prints out configurations and environment variables.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

►Introduction and Installation of PHP

 Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS

 Managing PHP Engine and Modules on CentOS

 cURL Module - Client for URL

 DOM Module - Parsing HTML Documents

 GD Module - Manipulating Images and Pictures

 MySQLi Module - Accessing MySQL Server

 OpenSSL Module - Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

 PCRE Module - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

 SOAP Module - Creating and Calling Web Services

 SOAP Module - Server Functions and Examples

 Zip Module - Managing ZIP Archive Files

 References

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Introduction and Installation of PHP - Updated in 2024, by Herong Yang