Xah's PHP Tutorial

Xah Lee, 2007-11-30, …, 2013-03-22

This is a tutorial on PHP. This tutorial is concrete, example based.

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Examples are tested from PHP version 4.4.7 (2007-05-03) to PHP version 5.3.6 (2011-03-10). (incompatible issues will be mentioned explicitly.)

• PHP Install
• Apache HTTP Server Tutorial

Language Basics

Language in a glance.

• PHP Basics

Basic Syntax

• String Syntax ＆ Heredoc
• string: join, length, parts

Lists

• list basics
• keyed list
• looping thru a list

Functions, Modules

• defining a function
• writing a package

Misc

• Send HTML Mail
• Send Mail with Attachment
• MySQL Database Query
• Parse JSON in PHP ＆ Python
• PHP Version History