Resources

CIS 58.41 - PHP Programming
Section 6795

David Pearson
Spring 2006

Syllabus

Schedule

Grades

Lecture Notes

Resources

Online Documents

• The official PHP site
• PHP Manual
• Instructions for Apache, Perl/CGI, PHP and MySQL on Windows

Getting Data into your web application

• Query String (mirror)

Database Articles

• Review of MySQLyog
• PHP and Databases for the Lazy Sod (mirror)
• MySQL Database Design (mirror)
• MySQL: Learning the Database Design Process (mirror)

Error Handling

• Error Handling: Stepping beyond True/False Results
• Error Handling In PHP (part 1)
• Error Handling In PHP (part 2)
• Using PHP Error Handling

XML Articles

• A Technical Introduction to XML
• Parsing XML with PHP
• Really simple how to create XML with PHP
• Using PHP with XML (part 1)
• Using PHP with XML (part 2)
• PreviewHands on XML

PHP Editors

• PHPEd 3.0 Review
• PHPedit
• PHP Editor Review

Text Books

Core PHP Programming: ·Leon Atkinson home page; ·Read the book online; ·Errata
MySql: ·Errata

PHP Developer Web Sites

• DevArticles.com
• PHPBuilder.com

Best Practices

• A Test To See If You Write Sloppy Software (mirror)
• PEAR Coding Standards
• Some PHP Guidelines to Live By

Web Bugs

• Web Bugs (what are web bugs) (mirror)
• Web Bug's (add web bugs to MS-Word documents) (mirror)
• All about WebBugs (marketing hype for an anti-spam product) (mirror)
• Nearly undetectable tracking device raises concern (CNet News article) (mirror)
• New tools hatch for sniffing out Web bugs (CNet News article) (mirror)
• Web Bug FAQ (EFF article) (mirror)
• Web Beacon (Wikipedia article) (mirror)

Output Buffering

• PHP Output Buffering (mirror - PDF)
• Introduction to Output Buffering (mirror)
• Controlling PHP Output: Caching and compressing dynamic pages (mirror)
• Output buffering, and how it can change your life (mirror)

Other Books

• PHP 4 Bible
• Web Application Development with PHP 4.0

Email Articles

PEAR::Mail (mirror)
HTML email (mirror)
• Common Internet Message Headers

Misc Web Tech Articles

• Why use Mozilla
• HTAccess Authentication Tutorial

HTML

• HTML Specification
• CSS Reference Table (mirror)