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To Heather, Elizabeth, Matthew, and Jacob,
and to all those who have called me Teacher.
irst I thank Him from whom all flows.
Heather, you always work harder on these books than I do. Thank you
for your love and your support. Thank you Elizabeth, Matthew, and
Jacob for understanding why Daddy was typing all the time.
Thanks to the Open Source community for creating great free software like PHP
and MySQL. Also, thanks to the phpMyAdmin team and the SQLite team for
developing such terrific software and making it freely available.
Thank you, Stacy Hiquet, for your continued support and encouragement on this
and other projects.
Thanks, Scott Harris. You did a great job of juggling all those balls around.
Thanks to Tonya Cupp for drastically improving the readability of the manuscript.
Arlie Hartman, thank you for technical editing and for putting together the CD-ROM.
Thanks to J. Wynia (www.phpgeek.com) for technical editing. Thanks also to Jason
for use of PHPTriad on the CD-ROM.
Special thanks to those who worked on the first edition. Your hard work is the
foundation for something even better.
Thank you to the many members of the Premier/Course team who worked on
this book.
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thanks goes to my CSCI N399 and N452 Server-Side Web Development
classes and the many people who sent in comments and advice from the first edi-
tion. Thank you for being patient with my manuscript, for helping me spot many
errors, and for providing invaluable advice. I learned as much from you as you
did from me.
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ndy Harris
began his teaching career as a high-school special education
teacher. During that time, he taught himself enough computing to do
part-time computer consulting and database work. He began teaching
computing at the university level in the late 1980s as a part-time job.
Since 1995 he has been a full-time lecturer in the Computer Science Department
of Indiana University/Purdue University–Indianapolis, where he manages the
Streaming Media Lab and teaches classes in several programming languages. His
primary interests are PHP, Java, Microsoft languages, Perl, JavaScript, Web Data,
virtual reality, portable devices, and streaming media. He has written numerous
books on these and other technology topics.
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Chapter 1: Exploring the PHP Environment . . . . . . . . . . .1
Chapter 2: Using Variables and Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 3: Controlling Your Code with
Conditions and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Chapter 4: Loops and Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Chapter 5: Better Arrays and String Handling . . . . . .133
Chapter 6: Working with Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
Chapter 7: Writing Programs with Objects . . . . . . . . .229

Chapter 8: XML and Content Management Systems . .271
Chapter 9: Using MySQL to Create Databases . . . . . .299
Chapter 10: Connecting to Databases within PHP . . . .335
Chapter 11: Data Normalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .359
Chapter 12: Building a Three-Tiered Data Application . .383
Appendix A: Reviewing HTML and
Cascading Style Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . .on cd
Appendix B: Using SQLite as an
Alternative Data Source . . . . . . . . . . . . .on cd
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429