This PDF covers the following topics related
to PHP : Which kind of language is PHP, Setting
up PHP, Your first PHP program, PHP language basics, Strings, Built-in functions
for numbers, Arrays, Conditionals, Loops, Functions, Looping arrays with
map or filter or reduce , Object oriented PHP, Including other PHP files, Useful
constants, functions and variables for filesystem, Errors, Exceptions, Dates,
Constants and enums, PHP as a web app development platform, Using Composer and
Packagist, Deploying PHP applications.
PHP is a scripting language designed to
fill the gap between SSI and Perl, intended for the Web environment. Its
principal application is the implementation of Web pages having dynamic content.
Topics covered includes: Beginning with Hello World, Nuts and Bolts,
Commenting and Style,Comparison operators, Arrays, Control structures,
Functions, Files, Images, Mailing, Cookies, Sessions, Databases and Regular
expressions.
This book provides lots of information on advanced functionality in PHP.
This book assumes no PHP programming skill at all. The topics in this book have
been ordered in such a way as to allow newcomers to progress smoothly and
quickly in their learning without having to worry about taking notes in the
margin or copying thousands of lines of code.