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PHP HOW-TO

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor[AT]yahoo.com

v26.6, 30 April 2002

This document tells you howto develop PHP programs and also to migrate all the Windows 95 GUI applications to powerful PHP + HTML + DHTML + XML + Java applets + Javascript. The information in this document applies to all the operating sytems where PHP is ported that is - Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP, BeOS, Apple Macintosh (is the son of FreeBSD Unix??), OS/2, all flavors of Unix like Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Unixware, Sinix, BSD, SunOS, etc.. and mainframe operating systems and on all operating systems where "C" compiler is available.

1. Introduction

2. PHP runs on Microsoft Windows!!

3. PHP Download

4. Quick Start steps

5. Major Features of PHP

6. Brief History of PHP

7. A Simple Example

8. SOAPX4 and PhpXMLP

9. PHP Libraries

10. PHPGem package

11. PHP Application Servers

12. Object Oriented Features - public, private, protected

13. HTML Editor

14. IDE tools for PHP

15. ctags for PHP

16. PHP documenter (like Javadoc)

17. Debugging PHP

18. General purpose programming with PHP

19. Performance benchmarking - PHP, ASP, JSP, Coldfusion

20. Limitations of PHP

21. PHP Tutorial

22. Related URLs

23. Other Formats of this Document

24. Copyright

25. Appendix A PHP examples

26. Appendix B Midgard Installation

27. Appendix C - Debug tool phpcodesite

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