Php String Handling Handbook

Bys: Matt Wade, Paul Adams, Chris Cornutt, et al.

This work covers all the most important tasks related to dealing with text/strings in PHP. The core of the book looks at PHP's built in string functions and the two flavours of Regular Expressions... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186100835X
• ISBN13: 9781861008350
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Handy intro to the power of PHP with text (strings)

If you are just getting into PHP and do a lot of work with text formatting in web sites, this book is a very comfortable way to develop an understanding of the potential of PHP for altering, displaying, and receiving input with different types of text issues: forms; guarding against HTML/script/other tags being inserted by your users; searching and organizing in text fields and databases, There's good explanations of the conceptual whys/hows of work with MySQL database, a gentle introduction to the use of "Regular Expresssions" within PHP for even more powerful text modifications, good examples of developing a full application for moderately sophisticated searches, and a good introduction to the use of forms in PHP and how to validate a user's input from a web page. If you've mastered a major tome on PHP you may not need this book at all. Sure - all the information is available elsewhere, but the authors have helpfully collected all this information in a very clear, thorough and beginner-friendly manner. It's getting difficult to find a new copy of this Wrox title, but it's sure worth snatching up one of the great buys on a used copy.