This is a hands-on, start-to-finish guide to developing web applications with PHP 5 and SQL-based databases in the Mac OS X environment.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. HTML 3. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 4. PHP 5. Variables 6. Decisions 7. Repetition 8. Functions 9. Numbers 10. Objects 11. Arrays 12. Databases 13. PEAR::DB 14. Dynamic Web Pages 15. Strings 16. Dates and Times 17. Multidimensional Arrays 18. Script State 19. Composite Scripts 20. Views 21. Dynamic Functions 22. Tables 23. Advanced SQL 24. PEAR::HTML_Quickform 25. Saving Data 26. Customizing HTML_Quickform 27. JavaScript 28. Remembering Users 29. Security 30. Entity Architecture 31. Archiving 32. Extended Entity Architecture 33. XML 34. Web Services 35. File Upload 36. Ajax 37. FPDF 38. Graphics (GD) Appendix A. Workshops Appendix B. PHP.INI

Author Biography

Mark Fenoglio has over 12 years of experience in database and web-based application development in technologies ranging from SQL Server and PostgreSQL to PHP, Ajax, Cocoa, Objective-C, and ASP. He was hired by The Big Nerd Ranch in September 2005 after asking too many annoying questions at the Cocoa Bootcamp that March. To support his PHP development efforts, he has crafted his own PHP application framework. Fenoglio's framework features a PostgreSQL-friendly ORM and predicate library, a lightweight template-based rendering engine, and an innovative workflow approach to application design. He holds an M.S. in Geophysics from Stanford.