What you hold in your hands is the answer to all your PHP 5 needs. We have written PHP 5 Recipes with a number of purposes in mind.

First, this book is a source of instant solutions, including countless pieces of useful code that you can just copy and paste into your own applications, giving you answers fast and saving you hours of coding time.

Second, this book is a useful reference to the most important aspects of the PHP 5 language, including the vital functions you know and love from previous versions of PHP, as well as the functions introduced in PHP 5.

Finally, this book explains the new PHP 5 functionality in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQLi database extension.

We are confident PHP 5 Recipes will be a useful and welcome companion throughout your PHP journey, keeping you on the cutting edge of PHP development, ahead of the competition, and giving you all the answers you need, when you need them.

Contents at a Glance

About the Authors 

About the Technical Reviewer 

Introduction 

CHAPTER 1 Overview of PHP Data Types and Concepts 

CHAPTER 2 Overview of Classes, Objects, and Interfaces 

CHAPTER 3 Performing Math Operations 

CHAPTER 4 Working with Arrays 

CHAPTER 5 Working with Dates and Times 

CHAPTER 6 Working with Strings 

CHAPTER 7 Working with Files and Directories 

CHAPTER 8 Working with Dynamic Imaging 

CHAPTER 9 Using Regular Expressions 

CHAPTER 10 Working with Variables 

CHAPTER 11 Using Functions 

CHAPTER 12 Understanding Web Basics 

CHAPTER 13 Creating and Using Forms 

CHAPTER 14 Working with Markup 

CHAPTER 15 Using MySQL Databases in PHP 5 

CHAPTER 16 Communicating with Internet Services 

INDEX