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PHP Tutorial needed

Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 4:19 am
by phpbeginner
Dear anyone,

Please could you be kind enough and suggest a good PHP tutorial book i can buy from the net (amazon,...) which covers the below topics.

Thanks

Introduction
 The history and role of PHP
 The history and role of MySQL
 PHP architecture overview
 PHP basics
 Embedding PHP in HTML
 Using PHP tags
 PHP tag styles
 PHP statements
 Whitespace
 Comments
Adding dynamic content
 Accessing form variables
 Identifiers
 User-declared variables
 Assigning values to variables
 Variable types
 Constants
 Variable scope
 Operators
 Variable functions
 Control structures
 Conditionals
 Iteration and loops
 Breaking/continuing loops
Storing and retrieving data
 Saving data for later
 File processing overview
 Opening a file
 Writing to a file
 Closing a file
 Reading from a file
 Other useful file functions
 File locking
Working with Arrays
 Introduction to arrays
 Numerically indexed arrays
 Associative arrays
 Multidimensional arrays
 Sorting arrays
 Sorting multidimensional arrays
 Reordering arrays
 Loading arrays from files
 Other array manipulation
Working with String manipulation and regular expressions
 Formatting strings
 Joining and splitting strings via string functions
 Comparing strings
 Matching and replacing substrings with string functions
 Regular expressions: core syntax
 Finding and replacing substrings with regular expressions
 Extracting data from strings with regular expressions
Reusing code and writing functions
 Code reuse overview
 Using require() and include()
 Using require() for Web site templates
 Using functions in PHP
 Function structure, parameters, and variable scope
 Pass by reference versus pass by value
 Returning values from functions
 Recursion
Object-oriented PHP
 Object-oriented concepts
 Classes, attributes, and operations in PHP
 Instantiation
 Using class attributes
 Calling class operations
 Implementing inheritance
 Tips for proper class design
Building basic site functionality with PHP
 Processing forms
 Populating form elements
 Creating pages based on data in other files
Session control in PHP
 Overview of session control
 Session functionality and the role of cookies in sessions
 Implementing a simple session
 Configuring session control
 Using session control as an authentication mechanism

Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 4:25 am
by JayBird
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:44 am
by Ree
Another assignment? :D

Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 7:40 am
by someberry
Ree wrote:Another assignment? :D
Judging by the date I doubt it. Probably a course material list for some kind of course.