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Preface
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Chapter 12,
Security
, provides valuable advice and guidance for programmers in cre-
ating secure scripts. You’ll learn best-practices programming techniques here that
will help you avoid mistakes that can lead to disaster.
Chapter 13,
Application Techniques
, talks about the advanced techniques that most
PHP programmers eventually want to use, including error handling and perfor-
mance tuning.
Chapter 14,
Extending PHP
, is an advanced chapter that presents easy-to-follow
instructions for building a PHP extension in C.
Chapter 15,
PHP on Windows
, discusses the tricks and traps of the Windows port of
PHP. It also discusses the features unique to Windows, such as COM and ODBC.
Appendix A,
Function Reference
, is a handy quick reference to all the core functions
in PHP.
Appendix B,
Extension Overview
, describes the standard extensions that ship with
PHP.
Conventions Used in This Book
The following typographic conventions are used in this book:
Italic
Used for file and directory names, email addresses, and URLs, as well as for new
terms where they are defined.
Constant Width
Used for code listings and for keywords, variables, functions, command options,
parameters, class names, and HTML tags where they appear in the text.
Constant Width Bold
Used to mark lines of output in code listings.
Constant Width Italic
Used as a general placeholder to indicate items that should be replaced by actual
values in your own programs.
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