Advanced PHP Programming with MySQL
Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................ 6
What this Course is About................................................................. 7
PHP Review............................................................................................9
PHP Basics.......................................................................................10
Working with Arrays....................................................................... 15
Sorting Arrays............................................................................. 18
Variable Scope in PHP.....................................................................20
Arithmetic Operators....................................................................... 22
Comparison Operators..................................................................... 24
The If and While Constructs............................................................ 27
Exercises.......................................................................................... 28
Functions..........................................................................................29
Declaring Functions.................................................................... 31
Passing Data By Reference......................................................... 33
Including Code in Scripts.................................................................35
Exercises..................................................................................... 36
Executing OS Commands................................................................ 37
Shell Execution Best Practices....................................................40
Exercises.......................................................................................... 42
Working with Web Forms............................................................... 43
Exercises.......................................................................................... 46
Perl Regular Expressions................................................................. 47
Object Oriented Programming and PHP 5........................................... 49
PHP 5 Objects.................................................................................. 50
Class Inheritance..............................................................................51
Autoloading Classes.........................................................................52
Constructors and Destructors...........................................................54
Member and Method Visibility........................................................56
The static Keyword.......................................................................... 57
Abstract Classes............................................................................... 58
Object Interfaces.............................................................................. 59
Overloading......................................................................................60
Class Members.................................................................................61
Exercises.......................................................................................... 62
Debugging PHP Code...........................................................................63
PHP Error Handling.........................................................................64
PHP Debugging Tools..................................................................... 65
Creating Conditional Debug Code.............................................. 68
Suppressing Errors........................................................................... 69
Exercises.......................................................................................... 70
Managing Web Sessions.......................................................................71
Using PHP Session Handling...........................................................72
Managing Sessions Across Multiple Servers...................................74
PHP Cookie Handling......................................................................76
Exercises.......................................................................................... 77
Handling Date & Time in PHP.............................................................79
Displaying Dates & Times...............................................................80
Parsing a Date or Time.................................................................... 82
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Generating Relative Times.............................................................. 83
Exercises.......................................................................................... 84
Leveraging Existing Code
using PEAR and PECL.........................................................................85
Introduction to PEAR...................................................................... 86
Exercises.......................................................................................... 91
Building Client-Server Applications.................................................... 92
Client Server Programming Models................................................ 93
Understanding XML-RPC............................................................... 97
An XML-RPC Conversation.......................................................99
Creating an XML-RPC Client....................................................... 101
Encapsulating Values with XML_RPC_Value()...................... 103
Retrieving Data from XML_RPC_Value() Objects..................105
Sending the Message & Receiving the Response.......................... 107
A Sample XML_RPC Client.....................................................109
Exercises........................................................................................ 110
Creating an XML_RPC Server...................................................... 111
A Sample XML_RPC Server.........................................................114
Exercises........................................................................................ 117
Installing and Managing MySQL....................................................... 118
MySQL Installation for Windows................................................. 119
The MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard................ 121
Starting and Stopping MySQL under Windows....................... 133
MySQL Installation for Linux/Unix.............................................. 134
Starting and Stopping the MySQL Server................................ 137
Exercises........................................................................................ 139
MySQL Server Security..................................................................... 140
MySQL Security............................................................................ 141
The MySQL Privilege System....................................................... 144
MySQL Default Users................................................................... 147
GRANT and REVOKE Statements............................................... 148
Adding Users to MySQL............................................................... 154
Changing User Passwords..............................................................157
Client Access Control.................................................................... 158
Disabling Client Access Control............................................... 159
Exercises................................................................................... 160
Using MySQL Clients........................................................................ 161
Client Overview............................................................................. 162
Using Command-Line Clients....................................................... 164
Specifying Connection Parameters........................................... 166
Connection Examples................................................................171
Using Client Option files............................................................... 173
Using User Variables..................................................................... 174
Exercises........................................................................................ 175
MySQL Stored Procedures................................................................. 176
What are Stored Procedures?......................................................... 177
Stored Procedures & Functions..................................................... 179
Creating Stored Procedures............................................................181
Creating Functions......................................................................... 183
Stored Procedure & Function Characteristics................................185
Execution Blocks in Stored Procedures & Functions.................... 187
The DECLARE Statement.............................................................188
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Working with Variables............................................................ 189
MySQL Error Codes................................................................. 190
Conditions and Handlers........................................................... 191
Exit Handlers.............................................................................192
Continue Handlers.....................................................................193
Undo Handlers.......................................................................... 194
The IF Statement............................................................................195
The CASE Statement..................................................................... 196
The LOOP, WHILE, and REPEAT Statements.............................197
Modifying Stored Procedures and Functions.................................201
Exercises................................................................................... 203
Cursors in MySQL.........................................................................204
Exercises........................................................................................ 206
Triggers in MySQL........................................................................207
Creating MySQL Triggers............................................................. 209
Exercises........................................................................................ 210
Using the MySQL Query Optimizer.................................................. 211
Index Types....................................................................................212
The FULLTEXT Index............................................................. 216
Index Usage................................................................................... 217
Analyzing Queries......................................................................... 219
Using EXPLAIN to Analyze Queries...................................... 221
Optimizing Queries........................................................................224
Optimizing Updates....................................................................... 226
MySQL Prepared Statements.........................................................227
Using Summary Tables..................................................................229
Exercises........................................................................................ 230
Accessing Databases using PHP.........................................................232
Using ADO DB..............................................................................233
Why use ADODB?........................................................................ 234
Installing ADODB......................................................................... 236
Specifying Connection Properties..................................................237
Constructing Queries..................................................................... 239
Executing Queries..........................................................................241
Working with SELECT Results.....................................................244
Errors Returned from Queries........................................................248
ADODB Performance Notes..........................................................249
Debugging Queries........................................................................ 251
Single-Step Queries....................................................................... 253
Exercises................................................................................... 255
PHP Best Practices............................................................................. 256
Exercises........................................................................................ 260
Appendix A – SQL Primer................................................................. 261
About the SELECT Statement....................................................... 262
Selecting Values to Display........................................................... 263
Restricting Selections Using the WHERE Clause......................... 267
Using ORDER BY to Sort Query Results..................................... 270
Limiting a Selection Using LIMIT........................................... 273
Computing Summary Values.........................................................275
Using the GROUP BY Clause....................................................... 278
Using the HAVING Clause........................................................... 280
Using DISTINCT to Eliminate Duplicates.................................... 281
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Using UNION to Join SELECT Results........................................282
Appendix B - SQL Expressions and Functions.................................. 284
What are Expressions and Functions?........................................... 285
Character Expressions and Functions............................................ 286
Pattern Matching using LIKE........................................................ 288
Using IF() Statements.................................................................... 290
Using the IN() Function................................................................. 291
Comments in SQL Statements....................................................... 292
Understanding NULL Values........................................................ 294
Appendix C - Updating Tables Using SQL........................................296
The INSERT Statement................................................................. 297
The REPLACE Statement..............................................................299
The UPDATE Statement................................................................302
The DELETE and TRUNCATE TABLE Statements....................303
Appendix D - Joins............................................................................. 304
SELECT from Multiple Tables......................................................305
The Inner Join........................................................................... 306
Outer Joins..................................................................................... 309
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