Next Previous Contents

PHP HOW-TO

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

v27.2, 12 July 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.

5.1 Advantages of PHP over Java

8.1 XML/XSLT Publishing Engine

18.1 Debug with FILE and LINE

19. General purpose programming with PHP

19.1 Standalone MS Windows GUI applications using PHP

PHP HOW-TO

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

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. Convert Microsoft ASP scripts to PHP - ASP2PHP

16. ctags for PHP

17. PHP documenter (like Javadoc)

18. Debugging PHP

19. General purpose programming with PHP

20. Web Application Standards - Fusebox

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

22. Limitations of PHP

23. PHP Tutorial

24. PHP Training & PHP Help Desk

25. Related URLs

26. Other Formats of this Document

27. Copyright

28. Appendix A PHP examples

29. Appendix B Midgard Installation

30. Appendix C - Debug tool phpcodesite