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PHP 5.3.6
Program Specifications
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| Version: |
5.3.6
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| Size: |
10.40 MB |
| Publisher: |
The PHP Group |
| Date Added: |
Jun 25, 2011 |
| License [?]: |
Open Source |
| Operating System: |
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows 7, Unix |
| Requirements: |
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| Download Links: |
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Publisher's Description of PHP
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" A widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. "
- From The PHP Group
What is PHP?
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
What does PHP stand for?
PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym.
PHP and HTML, COM and other languages
PHP and HTML interact a lot: PHP can generate HTML, and HTML can pass information to PHP.
PHP can be used to access COM and DCOM objects on Win32 platforms.
PHP is the best language for web programming, but what about other languages?
* PHP vs. ASP?
ASP is not really a language in itself, but an acronym for Active Server Pages; the actual languages used to program ASP include Visual Basic Script, JScript, and C#, among others. The biggest drawback of ASP is that it's a proprietary system that is natively used only on the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) platform. This limits its availability to Win32 based servers.
* PHP vs. ColdFusion?
PHP is commonly said to be faster and more efficient for complex programming tasks and trying out new ideas, and is considered by many to be more stable and less resource-intensive as well. While ColdFusion once had better error handling, database abstraction, and date parsing, the database abstraction shortfalls were addressed in PHP 4.
* PHP vs. Perl?
The biggest advantage of PHP over Perl is that PHP was designed for scripting for the web, while Perl was designed to do a lot more. Because of this, Perl can get very complicated. The flexibility / complexity of Perl can make it difficult for developers of varying skill levels to collaborate. PHP has a less-confusing and stricter format without losing flexibility. PHP is also easier to integrate into existing HTML than Perl. In large part, PHP has all the 'good' functionality of Perl - constructs, syntax, et cetera - without making it as complicated as Perl can be.
Security
PHP is a powerful language and the interpreter, whether included in a web server as a module or executed as a separate CGI binary, is able to access files, execute commands and open network connections on the server. These properties make anything run on a web server insecure by default. PHP is designed specifically to be a more secure language for writing CGI programs than Perl or C, and with correct selection of compile-time and runtime configuration options, and proper coding practices, it can give you exactly the combination of freedom and security you need.
Features
* HTTP authentication with PHP
* Cookies
* Sessions
* Dealing with XForms
* Handling file uploads
- POST method uploads
- Error Messages Explained
- Common Pitfalls
- Uploading multiple files
- PUT method support
* Using remote files
* Connection handling
* Persistent Database Connections
* Safe Mode
- Security and Safe Mode
- Functions restricted/disabled by safe mode
* Command line usage — Using PHP from the command line
- Introduction
- Differences to other SAPIs
- Options — Command line options
- Usage — Executing PHP files
- I/O streams — Input/output streams
- Interactive shell
* Garbage Collection
- Reference Counting Basics
- Collecting Cycles
- Performance Considerations
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