PHP 5 in the original

Authors were directly involved in the development of the fifth version of PHP, so you get the most complete and reliable information first hand. The manual is addressed to both professional Web-developers who want to start as soon as possible to use the new features of PHP 5, and beginners, owning only basic programming skills and are not familiar with PHP. You will receive information about the functioning of Web-servers, configure the server Apache, Web-interactive debugging scenarios and assembly executable PHP in OS Unix. Examine the syntax of the language and standard functions. Learn how to work with forms, files, databases MySQL, regular expressions, graphics, mail sessions. Develop new opportunities emerging in the fifth version of the language: to work with XML-documents, object-oriented programming technique of using exceptions. Due to the component approach to the creation of scenarios, described in the book, you will be able to create effective and easily expandable sites. With the book is closely related to the site, information which is constantly updated.

We consider the basic operation of Web-servers, build the executable PHP in OS Unix, a PR Developer tools (including script debugging utility), standard features and syntax of the language. The description of functions for working with PHP arrays, files, databases MySQL, regular expressions format PCRE, graphic primitives, mail sessions, and so on. D. Special attention is given to the new language capabilities for working with XML-documents, object-oriented programming, as well as approaches to the separation of PHP-code on HTML-template site.