PHP Cookbook.

The "PHP Cookbook" contains a collection of solutions and best practices for everyday PHP programming dilemmas. For each problem addressed there's a solution--a short, piece of code that programmers can insert directly into their applications. Like any good cookbook, it expounds theory and offers clear explanations of why the code works, so readers can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations. The recipes in the IPHP Cookbook' range from simple tasks, such as sending a database, query and fetching URLS, to entire programs that demonstrate complex tasks, such as printing HTML tables and generating bar charts. This book contains more than 250 recipes on the following topics: Working with basic data types, including strings, numbers, dates and times, and arrays--PHP building blocks, such as variables, functions, classes, and objects--Web programming, including forms, database access, and XML--Useful features such as regular expressions, encryption and security, graphics, internationalization and localization, and interact services--Working with files and directories.