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This book aims serving students, developers, technical leads and professionals who wish to begin server side, web application development, using PHP 7.x.

This book explores PHP 7.x and systematically illustrates its various specifications with plenty of real world examples with complete code spec and diagrams to make it easier to follow. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced web developer, you should find this book, a valuable and accessible knowledge base for creating Web solutions.

This book’s example code specs are available at www.sharanamshah.com:

Example illustrated code specs in the book.

PDF for installation process of Apache web server and MySQL database.

What this book holds:

Introduction To PHP

Setting up Development Environment

Writing your first PHP script

Fundamentals, Operators

Control Flow Statements, Iterations

Arrays, User-defined Functions

Built-in Functions

Working with Arrays

Working with Strings

Working with Date and Time

Performing Mathematical Operations

Object Oriented Programming

Working with Forms

Form validations, Regular Expressions

Uploading Files

Introduction to MySQLi

Introduction to PDO

Cookies, Sessions

Debugging and Error Handling

Working with Files

Web services with SOAP

Asynchronous Javascript And XML

SimpleXML

Document Object Model (DOM)