PREFACE -- About the Author -- Before We Get Started -- Who Should Read this book? -- About The Examples -- How to read this book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Web Application Recipe -- Overview -- Step 1 - Understanding the problem and finding the solution -- Step 2 - Designing the database -- Step 3 - Major functionalities -- Step 4 - Back side -- Step 5 - Improvements on functionality -- Step 6 - Improvements on looks -- Step 7 - Thorough testing, hacking attempts -- Step 8 - Presentation -- Step 9 - Publication -- Step 10 - Celebration (and maintenance) -- Chapter 1. Fundamentals -- The origins of the Internet -- The World Wide Web -- The Web Browsers -- The Web Servers -- TCP/IP BASICS -- The Internet Layer -- The Transport Layer -- The Application Layer -- The Toolbox -- Browsers -- FTP -- E-Mail Clients -- Programming Tools -- Other Useful Tools -- Chapter 2. The Different Approaches of Web Programming -- Before We Get Started -- The Basics - HTML -- The Creator - SGML -- Other SGML-based languages - XML / XSL -- The good old Java -- Something different - JavaScript -- The Savior - PHP -- The rival - ASP.NET -- The Myth - CGI -- Another Big Option - Perl -- The Future? - C# -- Client-side versus Server-side - Which side to pick? -- My Choices - PHP, MySQL, JavaScript -- Chapter 3. Introduction To HTML -- What do you need to get started? -- How does HTML work? -- Syntax basics -- File Structure -- Tags Parameters -- Basic Text Formatting -- External References -- Links -- Images -- Organizing Data -- Lists -- Tables -- Frames -- Special Characters -- Chapter 4. Work Environment -- Introduction -- Downloading the Software -- Installing the Apache Server -- Installation Steps -- Checking the Installation -- Possible Errors -- Configuring Apache -- Installing PHP5 -- Testing PHP -- Installing MySQL -- Adding a MySQL user -- How do I know if MySQL is running? -- Installing phpMyAdmin -- Installing a Bulletin Board: phpBB -- Installation Steps -- Basic Security things to consider!.

Conclusion -- Chapter 5. PHP - A server Side Scripting Language -- How does it work? -- Some “new” words on PHP -- Syntax Generalities -- Instructions -- Operators -- Mathematical Functions -- Data Types -- Constants -- Variables -- Chapter 6. PHP Arrays and Flow of Control -- Arrays -- Basic Arrays -- Associative Arrays -- Multidimensional Arrays -- Arrays Functions -- PHP Program Structure and Flow of control -- Conditions -- Loops -- Functions -- Chapter 7. Using files, folders and Strings in PHP -- Using Files -- Folder Manipulation -- Basic String Manipulation -- Changing a string -- Finding and Comparing -- Formatting Strings -- Manipulating HTML files -- PHP Information Functions -- Closing Remarks -- Writing a basic File Explorer -- Requirements -- HINTS -- Case Study: An Indexer/Searcher STEP 1 -- Overview -- The Indexer - Step 1 -- Chapter 8. PHP5 and Object-Oriented Programming -- Overview -- Classes and Objects -- Classes in PHP -- Constructors and Destructors -- Visibility -- The scope resolution operator -- The Static Keyword -- Class Constants -- Class Abstraction -- Object Interfaces -- Copying and Cloning objects -- Comparing Objects -- Type Hinting -- Exceptions -- Final words -- Chapter 9. Creating Some Interactivity -- Overview -- Forms -- Writing a form in HTML -- GET vs. POST -- Retrieving the form info on a PHP script -- Dynamically creating forms -- Transferring data between PHP scripts -- Cookies -- Sessions -- One last useful function and design techniques -- Assignments -- File explorer step 2 -- Case study: Indexer/Searcher - Step 2 -- Chapter 10: Making Cleaner Code and Output -- Cleaning up your code -- What you need -- How to use it? - HTML side -- How to use it? - PHP side -- Cleaning up your output -- The CSS file -- Useful tools -- Assignment -- Chapter 11. Using Databases -- Overview -- Database Basics -- The entity-relationship model -- More Practical Example -- Typical sources of Errors -- Simplifying the Diagrams -- Using MySQL.

MySQL Syntax -- Data Types -- MySQL numeric data types -- Date and Time data types -- String Data types -- MySQL Operators -- MySQL Instructions -- Using Functions in MySQL -- Chapter 12. Using PhpMyAdmin -- Overview -- Creating a Database -- Creating tables -- Accessing an existing table -- Exporting/Importing a database structure and content -- Assignment - Final Project -- Chapter 13. Creating Database-Driven Websites with PHP/MySQL -- Overview -- Connecting to your MySQL server with PHP -- Submitting SQL queries -- Processing the results of a query -- Example of login procedure -- Other useful functions -- Grouping our Methods in a class -- Indexer/Searcher - Steps 3 and 4 -- Chapter 14: JavaScript - A client side scripting language -- Introduction -- JavaScript syntax -- Types of Data and Variables -- Operations and calculations -- Arrays -- Decisions -- Loops -- Using Functions -- Using Objects -- The String Objects -- The Math class -- The Array objects -- Chapter 15. Programming the Browser -- Overview -- The Window Object -- The Location Object -- The History Object -- The Navigator Object -- The Screen Object -- The Document Object -- Using Events -- Timers -- Time to practice! -- Chapter 16. Windows and Frames -- Frames and JavaScript -- Windows and JavaScript -- Assignments -- One Last Funny Example -- Chapter 17: String Manipulations Revisited -- Overview -- New Basic String methods -- Regular Expressions in JavaScript -- Regular Expressions in PHP -- The set of PCRE -- Chapter 18. JavaScript and DHTML -- Overview -- Positioning Elements -- Writing dynamic menus in DHTML -- You turn!! -- Chapter 19. Putting it All Together! -- Overview -- Step 1 - Understanding the problem and finding the solution -- Step 2 - Designing the database -- Step 3 - Main functionalities -- Step 4 - Back side -- Step 5 - Improvements on functionality -- Step 6 - Improvements on looks -- Step 7 - Thorough testing, hacking attempts -- Step 8 - Presentation -- Step 9 - Publication.

Step 10 - Celebration :) (and maintenance) -- What language to use? -- Appendix A: Special Characters -- Appendix B: Installing on UNIX -- Overview -- Installing Apache and PHP -- Installing MySQL -- Appendix C: Advanced phpBB -- Appendix D: class.FastTemplate.PHP -- Appendix E - File Upload Script -- Bibliography -- Index.