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PHP HOW-TO

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan)

v26.0, 31 Jan 2002

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This document tells you howto develop PHP programs and also to migrate all the Windows 95 GUI applications to powerful PHP + HTML + DHTML + XML + Java applets + Javascript. The information in this document applies to all the operating sytems where PHP is ported that is - Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/ME, Windows 2000, BeOS, Apple Macintosh (is BSD unix??), OS/2, all flavors of Unix like Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Unixware, Sinix, BSD, SunOS, etc.. and mainframe operating systems and on all operating systems where "C" compiler is available.

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1. Introduction

2. PHP runs on Microsoft Windows!!

3. PHP Download

• 3.1 PHP Installation on Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000
• 3.2 Apache Webserver Quick-Install (10 seconds) on Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000
• 3.3 SQL server for Microsoft
• 3.4 PHP Installation on UNIX'es and others

4. Quick Start steps

5. Major Features of PHP

6. Brief History of PHP

7. A Simple Example

8. SOAPX4 and PhpXMLP

• 8.1 XML/XSLT Publishing Engine

9. PHP Libraries

• 9.1 Classes and PEAR
• 9.2 Other PHP Utilities

10. PHPGem package

11. PHP Application Servers

• 11.1 Build PHP based corporate Intranet and Internet
• 11.2 Popular PHP Applications
• 11.3 PHP Web Application Servers
• 11.4 PHP Template Engines
• 11.5 PHP based Web-Portal systems

12. Object Oriented Features - public, private, protected

13. HTML Editor

14. IDE tools for PHP

• 14.1 PHP IDE
• 14.2 PHP IDE for MS Windows only
• 14.3 PHP IDE for both MS Windows and Linux
• 14.4 PHP IDE for Linux only
• 14.5 PHP Utilities
• 14.6 Convert Microsoft ASP scripts to PHP - ASP2PHP

15. ctags for PHP

16. Debugging PHP

• 16.1 Debug Tool - phpCodeSite
• 16.2 Debug Tool - phpDebug
• 16.3 PHP Debuggers
• 16.4 Debug with FILE and LINE

17. General purpose programming with PHP

• 17.1 Standalone MS Windows GUI applications using PHP

18. Performance benchmarking - PHP, ASP, JSP, Coldfusion

19. Limitations of PHP

20. PHP Tutorial

• 20.1 Primer on PHP Sessions
• 20.2 Session Management in PHP4
• 20.3 User Management and Privileges
• 20.4 Step1: Creating the Users Table

21. Related URLs

22. Other Formats of this Document

• 22.1 Acrobat PDF format
• 22.2 Convert Linuxdoc to Docbook format
• 22.3 Convert to MS WinHelp format
• 22.4 Reading various formats

23. Copyright

24. Appendix A PHP examples

• 24.1 PostgreSQL large object Example
• 24.2 User authentication Example
• 24.3 Network admin Example

25. Appendix B Midgard Installation

• 25.1 Testing Midgard PHP Server
• 25.2 Security OpenSSL

26. Appendix C - Debug tool phpcodesite

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