This is your hands-on PHP programming guide. Featuring real-world examples and techniques, this easy-to-use reference is packed with information and insights on PHP, the open-source programming language for the development of dynamic Web applications. Topics covered include string and number manipulation, encryption, authentication, caching, and XML parsing. You will learn how to simplify the application development cycle, reduce testing time, and solve PHP problems quickly and easily.

Find real-world solutions to PHP programming problems. Simplify and shorten the PHP application development cycle using the in-depth information contained in this hands-on guide. PHP Programming Solutions clearly lays out more than 250 programming challenges alongside practical solutions, functioning code, detailed explanations, and usage tips. Inside, you’ll learn to manipulate strings and arrays, work with HTML and Web pages, accept and validate user input, parse XML code, and resolve programming problems using PEAR and PECL widgets and extensions. Plus, you’ll get detailed coverage of PHP security issues, SQL database interaction, debugging techniques, and error processing. Work with numbers, strings, dates, times, files, and directories. Build complex data structures using PHP’s array manipulation API. Use functions and classes to build modular, reusable code. Create, update, and cache HTML documents and Web content. Obtain and process user input submitted via online forms. Protect, log, and debug PHP script actions. Authenticate and track users with sessions and cookies. Traverse, validate, and transform XML documents. Store and retrieve data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases. Interface with different server types, network protocols, and file formats. Perform efficient exception handling and error processing.

Your hands-on PHP programming guide 

Featuring real-world examples and techniques, this easy-to-use reference is packed with information and insights on PHP, the open-source programming language for the development of dynamic Web applications. Topics covered include string and number manipulation, encryption, authentication, caching, and XML parsing. You will learn how to simplify the application development cycle, reduce testing time, and solve PHP problems quickly and easily

Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (www.melonfire.com), a company specializing in content creation and syndication. He is the author of MySQL: The Complete Reference and How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL.

• PHP dominates the market, powering more than 20 million websites worldwide
• PHP works with every major database system and runs on all operating systems

Find real-world solutions to PHP programming problems

Simplify and shorten the PHP application development cycle using the in-depth information contained in this hands-on guide. PHP Programming Solutions clearly lays out more than 250 programming challenges alongside practical solutions, functioning code, detailed explanations, and usage tips.

Inside, you’ll learn to manipulate strings and arrays, work with HTML and Web pages, accept and validate user input, parse XML code, and resolve programming problems using PEAR and PECL widgets and extensions. Plus, you’ll get detailed coverage of PHP security issues, SQL database interaction, debugging techniques, and error processing.

• Work with numbers, strings, dates, times, files, and directories
• Build complex data structures using PHP’s array manipulation API
• Use functions and classes to build modular, reusable code
• Create, update, and cache HTML documents and Web content
• Obtain and process user input submitted via online forms
• Protect, log, and debug PHP script actions
• Authenticate and track users with sessions and cookies
• Traverse, validate, and transform XML documents
• Store and retrieve data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases
• Interface with different server types, network protocols, and file formats
• Perform efficient exception handling and error processing

Your hands-on PHP programming guide

Featuring real-world examples and techniques, this easy-to-use reference is packed with information and insights on PHP, the open-source programming language for the development of dynamic Web applications. Topics covered include string and number manipulation, encryption, authentication, caching, and XML parsing. You will learn how to simplify the application development cycle, reduce testing time, and solve PHP problems quickly and easily

PHP Programming Solutions
I purchesed this book hoping it would give good examples. NOT!!! Just another book for people who already know what they are doing. Now this is my opinion and this book did nothing to help explain the INCLUDE function or how to handle directories in php which is the help I was looking for.

Great book full of info and easy to read scripts
This book seems to let me save a lot of googling. It’s a full list of function for the everyday work. You won’t find very advanced features, but for this there are others book. Thank to the author.

A targeted PHP reference manual
PHP Programming Solutions is a good general purpose reference book targeted toward intermediate-level PHP programmers. The examples are simple and complete enough that it’s possible a beginner could learn PHP from the book.

It is organized like a catalog, and quite frankly most of the information in it could be found by doing a simple Google search. But if you’re like me, and enjoy having a book in front of you, I’d highly recommend it.

Something I didn’t like about the examples was the heavy reliance on the PEAR libraries. For someone who’s looking only to solve the problem at hand... in PHP... this will undoubtedly be adequate. Someone interested in more detailed explanations, such that the solution may be generally applied to other languages, may be disappointed in this aspect of the book, as I was.