Contents at a Glance
Introduction .................................................. ...............1
Part I: Introducing Application Development .................7
Chapter 1: Building Your Application .................................................. ...........................9
Chapter 2: Building in Application Security .................................................. ...............23
Part II: Building a User Authentication Application .....43
Chapter 3: User Authentication with HTTP .................................................. ...............45
Chapter 4: User Login Application .................................................. ..............................77
Part III: Building Online Sales Applications ...............129
Chapter 5: Online Catalog Application .................................................. .....................131
Chapter 6: Shopping Cart Application .................................................. ......................159
Part IV: Building Other Useful Applications ...............233
Chapter 7: Building a Content Management System .................................................2 35
Chapter 8: Hosting Discussions with a Web Forum .................................................. 309
Part V: The Part of Tens ...........................................373
Chapter 9: Ten Hints for Application Development .................................................. 375
Chapter 10: Ten Sources of PHP Code .................................................. ......................379
Part VI: Appendixes .................................................3 83
Appendix A: Introducing Object-Oriented Programming .........................................385
Appendix B: Object-Oriented Programming with PHP .............................................391
Appendix C: The MySQL and MySQL Improved Extensions ....................................407
Appendix D: About the CD .................................................. .........................................411
Index .................................................. .....................417