Essential PHP fast

1. Introduction
- Why PHP and MySQL?
- Is this Book for You?
- How to Use this Book

2. Creating a Typical PHP Development Environment
- WebBrowser
- Webserver
- PHP
- Text Editor
- Database
- Summary

3. Introducing PHP
- A Simple HTML Document
- First PHP Script
- The History of PHP
- Static and Dynamic Web Pages
- How Is PHP Different?
- Formatting PHP Instructions
- Jumping In and Out of PHP
- Echo and Print Statements
- Comment Statements
- Summary

4. Variables: Integer and Floating-Point Datatypes
- What Is a Variable?
- Assigning a Variable by Value
- Assigning a Variable by Reference
- Different Types of Variables
- Integers
- Floating-Point Numbers
- Summary

5. Variables: Strings
- Single Quoted Strings
- Double Quoted Strings
- Variables in Strings
- Joining Strings
- Referencing Characters in a String
- String Length
- Converting Strings
- Summary

6. Accessing Environment and PHP Variables
- Predefined Variables
- Environment Variables
- PHP Variables
- Summary

7. Investigating Expressions, Operands and Operators
- Expressions
- Operators
- Operands
- Arithmetic Operators
- The Assignment Operator
- Bit Manipulation Operators
- Comparison Operators
- The Conditional Operator
- Increment and Decrement operators
- Logical Operators
- Operator Precedence
- Summary

8. Controlling the Flow of Control
- Sequence, Selection and Iteration
- The if Statement
- The else Statement
- The elseif Statement
- The while Loop
- The do while Loop
- The for Loop
- Nested Loops
- Breaking Out of Loops
- The continue Statement
- The switch Statement
- Summary

9. Interacting with the User
- PHP and Forms
- Simple Form Processing
- GET and POST Methods
- Combining PHP and Forms
- Retaining Form Field Data
- Interacting with a PHP Application
- Summary

10. Arrays
- Single-Dimensional Arrays
- Multi-Dimensional Arrays
- Arrays and the foreach Loop
- Strings and Arrays
- Combination