Upgrading to PHP 5
Upgrading to PHP 5 By Adam Trachtenberg
July 2004
Pages: 348

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. Why PHP 5?

    2. What's New in PHP 5?

    3. Installing and Configuring PHP 5

  2. Chapter 2 Object-Oriented Programming

    1. What Is Object-Oriented Programming?

    2. Memory Management

    3. Basic Classes

    4. Class Intermediates

    5. Inheritance

    6. Magical Methods

  3. Chapter 3 MySQL

    1. Installing and Configuring

    2. Procedural Interface

    3. Before and After: Connecting to the Database Server

    4. Object-Oriented Interface

    5. Before and After: Querying and Retrieving Data with Prepared Statements

    6. Before and After: Subselects

    7. Transactions

    8. Before and After: Making Multiple Queries

    9. Securing Connections with SSL

    10. Porting Code and Migrating Databases

  4. Chapter 4 SQLite

    1. SQLite Basics

    2. Alternate SQLite Result Types

    3. Object-Oriented Interface

    4. Indexes, Error Handling, and In-Memory Tables

    5. Transactions

    6. User-Defined Functions

  5. Chapter 5 XML

    1. XML Extensions in PHP 5

    2. Installing XML and XSLT Support

    3. DOM

    4. SimpleXML

    5. Converting Between SimpleXML and DOM Objects

    6. Before and After: Reading XML into a Tree

    7. Before and After: Searching XML with XPath

    8. Reading XML as Events with SAX

    9. Before and After: Creating New XML Documents

    10. Before and After: Transforming XML with XSLT

    11. Validating Against a Schema

  6. Chapter 6 Iterators and SPL

    1. Before and After: Using Iterators

    2. Implementing the Iterator Interface

    3. MySQL Query Iterator

    4. Chaining Iterators

    5. SimpleXML Iterator

    6. Before and After: Recursive Directory Iteration

    7. Implementing the RecursiveIterator Interface

    8. Array and Object Property Iteration

    9. Redefining Class Iteration

    10. Iterator and SPL Classes and Interfaces

  7. Chapter 7 Error Handling and Debugging

    1. Before and After: Handling Errors

    2. The Benefits of Exceptions

    3. System Exceptions

    4. The Exception Class

    5. User Exceptions

    6. Setting a Custom Exception Handler

    7. Processing Errors with a Custom Handler

    8. Debugging Functions

  8. Chapter 8 Streams, Wrappers, and Filters

    1. Using the Streams API

    2. Wrapper Overview

    3. Wrapper Details

    4. Creating Wrappers

    5. Filtering Streams

    6. Creating Filters

  9. Chapter 9 Other Extensions

    1. SOAP

    2. Tidy

    3. Reflection

  10. Chapter 10 PHP 5 in Action

    1. Defining Your Database Schema

    2. The Person Class

    3. The addressBook Class

    4. The Template Class

    5. Assembling the Application

    6. Wrap-Up and Future Directions

  1. Appendix A Introduction to XML

    1. Comparing HTML and XML

    2. Well-Formed XML

    3. Schemas

    4. Transformations

    5. XML Namespaces

    6. XPath

  2. Appendix B Additional New Features and Minor Changes

    1. Passing Optional Parameters by Reference

    2. New E_STRICT Error Setting

    3. Treating Strings as Arrays Causes Errors

    4. CLI Now Allows Individual Line Processing

    5. CLI Always Provides argv and argc

    6. Oracle (oci8) Extension Functions Renamed

    7. New Configuration Directives

    8. Updated COM Extension

    9. Apache 2 Correctly Sets PATH_TRANSLATED

    10. strrpos( ) Uses the Entire Needle

    11. Windows 95 Support Dropped

    12. old_function Eliminated

  3. Appendix C Installing PHP 5 Alongside PHP 4

    1. General PHP 5 Configuration

    2. Module and CGI

    3. Windows

  4. Colophon

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