CONTENTS

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Chapter 1..Introducing PHP

Chapter 1..Introducing PHP (History,PHP 4,PHP 5,PHP 6,General Language Features,Summary)

Chapter 2..Configuring Your Environment

Chapter 2..Configuring Your Environment (Part-1) (Installation Prerequisites,Downloading Apache,Downloading PHP ,Installing Apache and PHP on Windows,Installing Apache and PHP on Linux)

Chapter 2..Configuring Your Environment (Part-2) (Installing IIS and PHP on Windows,Installing IIS and PHP,Configuring FastCGI to Manage PHP Processes,Testing Your Installation,Configuring PHP,Configuring PHP at Build Time on Linux,Customizing the Windows Build,Run-Time Configuration,Managing PHP’s Configuration Directives,PHP’s Configuration Directives)

Chapter 2..Configuring Your Environment (Part-3)
(Choosing a Code Editor, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Notepad++, PDT (PHP Development Tools), Zend Studio, Choosing a Web Hosting Provider, Summary)

Chapter 3..PHP Basics

Chapter 3..PHP Basics(Part-1)
(Embedding PHP Code in Your Web Pages,Default Syntax,Short-Tags,Script,ASP Style,Embedding Multiple Code Blocks,Commenting Your Code,Single-Line C++ Syntax,Shell Syntax,Multiple-Line C Syntax)

Chapter 3..PHP Basics(Part-2)
(PHP’s Supported Datatypes,Scalar Datatypes,Compound Datatypes,Converting Between Datatypes Using Type Casting,Adapting Datatypes with Type Juggling,Type-Related Functions,Type Identifier Functions,Identifiers)

Chapter 3..PHP Basics(Part-3)
(Variables,Variable Declaration,Variable Scope,PHP’s Superglobal Variables,Variable Variables)

Chapter 3..PHP Basics(Part-4)
(Constants,Expressions,Operators)

Chapter 3..PHP Basics(Part-5)
(String Interpolation, Double Quotes, Single Quotes, Heredoc)

Chapter 3..PHP Basics(Part-6)
(Control Structures, Conditional, if, else, elseif, switch Statement)

Chapter 3..PHP Basics(Part-7)
(Looping Statements, while, do…while, for, foreach, continue, break and goto Statements)

Chapter 3..PHP Basics(Part-8)
(File-Inclusion Statements, include(), require() Statement)