Book Description
PHP in easy steps, 4th edition demonstrates every aspect of the language you’ll need to produce professional web programming results. Its examples provide clear syntax-highlighted code, which is freely downloadable, showing PHP language basics including variables, arrays, logic, looping, functions and classes. · Install a free web server and the PHP interpreter to create an environment in which you can produce your own data-driven web pages. · Write PHP server-side scripts; master PHP operators and control structures; process HTML form data; get cookies and session data; access Web Services APIs over HTTP... and much more! PHP in easy steps, 4th edition is ideal for PHP newbies who want to quickly learn the fundamentals of server-side programming with PHP and create interactive web pages. Also, useful for PHP pros who want to grasp the new PHP 8 features and achieve optimum performance! Updated for PHP 8. Table of Contents: 1. Getting started 2. Storing values 3. Performing operations 4. Testing conditions 5. Employing functions 6. Manipulating strings 7. Building classes 8. Handling files 9. Producing forms 10. Preserving data 11. Adding Web Services