PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.17, by Herong Yang
Downloading and Installing PHP Documentation
This section provides a tutorial example on how to download and install PHP documentation in HTML format.
To help learning the PHP language and built-in extensions, we should also download the PHP documentation:
1. Go to php.net/download-docs.php and download the "tar.gz" format of the "English" and "Many HTML files" version. You will get a file called "php_manual_en.tar.gz" of 11,269,511 bytes.
2. Unzip "php_manual_en.tar.gz" to \php\html folder.
3. Open \php\html\index.html in a Web browser and bookmark it.
Table of Contents
►Introduction and Installation of PHP
Downloading and Installing PHP 7.3 for Windows
"php -help" - Command Line Options
"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
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
Interface with Operating System
Introduction of Class and Object
Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server
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
Parsing and Managing HTML Documents
Configuring and Sending Out Emails
Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS