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PHP HOW-TO

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor[AT]yahoo.com

v27.6, 05 Oct 2002


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/2000/XP, BeOS, Apple Macintosh (is the son of FreeBSD 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.

1. Introduction

2. PHP runs on Microsoft Windows!!

3. PHP Download

4. Quick Start steps

5. Major Features of PHP

6. Brief History of PHP

7. A Simple Example

8. SOAPX4 and PhpXMLP

9. PHP Libraries

10. PHPGem package

11. PHP Application Servers

12. Object Oriented Features - public, private, protected

13. HTML Editor

14. IDE tools for PHP

15. Code Protection - Encoding Source Code

16. Convert Microsoft ASP scripts to PHP - ASP2PHP

17. ctags for PHP

18. PHP documenter (like Javadoc)

19. Debugging PHP

20. General purpose programming with PHP

21. Web Application Standards - Fusebox

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

23. Limitations of PHP

24. PHP Tutorial

25. PHP Training & PHP Help Desk

26. Related URLs

27. Other Formats of this Document

28. Copyright

29. Appendix A PHP examples

30. Appendix B Midgard Installation

31. Appendix C - Debug tool phpcodesite

32. Appendix D - PERL versus PHP debate


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