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PHP TUTORIAL BY CYBER
SECURITY INFOTECH (CSI)
http://www.csinfotech.org/
About the company :
 Cs-infotech is one of the best cyber security and website
development company in India. we also provide Network
security, software development, Cyber security
corporate training and SEO and SMO services.
 Our services are Employee Monitoring System,
Employee Monitoring Software, Website Audit , Network
Security , Network Audit and Information Security.
Agenda
 Introduction
 PHP Language Basics
 Built-in Functions
 PHP on Linux and Windows
 Tricks and Tips
 PHP 5
 Examples
 Questions?
Introduction
 What is PHP?
 PHP stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor”
 An embedded scripting language for HTML like
ASP or JSP
 A language that combines elements of Perl, C,
and Java
Introduction
 History of PHP
 Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 for tracking
access to his resume
 Originally a set of Perl scripts known as the
“Personal Home Page” tools
 Rewritten in C with database functionality
 Added a forms interpreter and released as
PHP/FI: includes Perl-like variables, and HTML
embedded syntax
Introduction
 History of PHP (cont.)
 Rewritten again in and released as version 2.0 in
November of 1997
 Estimated user base in 1997 is several thousand
users and 50,000 web sites served
 Rewritten again in late 1997 by Andi Gutmans
and Zeev Suraski
 More functionality added, database support,
protocols and APIs
Introduction
 History of PHP (cont.)
 User base in 1998 estimated 10,000 users and
100,000 web sites installed
 Version 3.0 was released in June 1998 as PHP
 Estimated user base in tens of thousands and
hundreds of thousands of web sites served
Introduction
 History of PHP (cont.)
 Rewritten again in 1997 by Andi Gutmans and
Zeev Suraski
 More functionality added (OOP features),
database support, protocols and APIs
 PHP 3.0 is released in June 1998 with some OO
capability
 The core is rewritten in 1998 for improved
performance of complex applications
Introduction
 History of PHP (cont.)
 The core is rewritten in 1998 by Zeev and Andi
and dubbed the “Zend Engine”
 The engine is introduced in mid 1999 and is
released with version 4.0 in May of 2000
 The estimated user base is hundreds of
thousands of developers and several million of
web sites served
Introduction
 History of PHP (cont.)
 Version 5.0 will include version 2.0 of the Zend
Engine
 New object model is more powerful and intuitive
 Objects will no longer be passed by value; they now
will be passed by reference
 Increases performance and makes OOP more
attractive
Introduction
 Netcraft Statistics
 11,869,645 Domains, 1,316,288 IP Addresses
Introduction
 Performance*
 Zdnet Statistics
 PHP pumped out about 47 pages/second
 Microsoft ASP pumped out about 43 pages/second
 Allaire ColdFusion pumped out about 29
pages/second
 Sun Java JSP pumped out about 13 pages/second
PHP Language Basics
 The Script Tags
 All PHP code is contained in one of several script
tags:
 <?
// Some code
?>
 <?php
// Some code here
?>
PHP Language Basics
 The Script Tags (cont.)
 <script language=“PHP">
// Some code here
</script>
 ASP-style tags
 Introduced in 3.0; may be removed in the future
 <%
// Some code here
%>
PHP Language Basics
 The Script Tags (cont.)
 “Echo” Tags
 <table>
<tr>
<td>Name:</td><td><?= $name ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Address:</td><td><?= $address ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
PHP Language Basics
 Hello World!: An Example
 Like Perl, there is more than one way to do it
 <?php echo “Hello World!”; ?>
 <?php
$greeting = “Hello World!”
printf(“%s”, $greeting);
php?>
PHP Language Basics
 Hello World!: An Example (cont.)
 <script language=“PHP”>
$hello = “Hello”;
$world = “World!”;
print $hello . $world
</script>
PHP Language Basics
 Constants, Data Types and Variables
 Constants define a string or numeric value
 Constants do not begin with a dollar sign
 Examples:
 define(“COMPANY”, “Acme Enterprises”);
 define(“YELLOW”, “#FFFF00”);
 define(“PI”, 3.14);
 define(“NL”, “<br>n”);
PHP Language Basics
 Constants, Data Types and Variables
 Using a constant
 print(“Company name: “ . COMPANY . NL);
PHP Language Basics
 Constants, Data Types and Variables
 Data types
 Integers, doubles and strings
 isValid = true; // Boolean
 25 // Integer
 3.14 // Double
 ‘Four’ // String
 “Total value” // Another string
PHP Language Basics
 Constants, Data Types and Variables
 Data types
 Strings and type conversion
 $street = 123;
 $street = $street . “ Main Street”;
 $city = ‘Naperville’;
$state = ‘IL’;
 $address = $street;
 $address = $address . NL . “$city, $state”;
 $number = $address + 1; // $number equals 124
PHP Language Basics
 Constants, Data Types and Variables
 Data types
 Arrays
 Perl-like syntax
 $arr = array("foo" => "bar", 12 => true);
 same as
 $arr[“foo”] = “bar”;
 $arr[12] = true;
PHP Language Basics
 Constants, Data Types and Variables
 Arrays (cont.)
 <?php
$arr = array("somearray" => array(6 => 5, 13 => 9,
"a" => 42));
echo $arr["somearray"][6]; // 5
echo $arr["somearray"][13]; // 9
echo $arr["somearray"]["a"]; // 42
?>
PHP Language Basics
 Constants, Data Types and Variables
 Objects
 Currently not much more advanced than than associative
arrays Using constants
 Before version 5.0, objects are passed by value
 Slow
 Functions can not easily change object variables
PHP Language Basics
 Constants, Data Types and Variables
 Operators
 Contains all of the operators like in C and Perl (even the
ternary)
 Statements
 if, if/elseif
 Switch/case
 for, while, and do/while loops
 Include and require statements for code reuse
Built-in Functions
 What comes In the box?
 Array Manipulator Functions
 sort, merge, push, pop, slice, splice, keys, count
 CCVS: Interface to Red Hat’s credit system
 COM functions: Interface to Windows COM
objects
 Date and Time Functions
 getdate, mkdate, date, gettimeofday, localtime,
strtotime, time
Built-in Functions
 What comes In the box?
 Directory Functions
 Platform independent
 Error Handling Functions
 Recover from warnings and errors
 Filesystem Functions
 Access flat files
 Check directory, link, and file status information
 Copy, delete, and rename files
Built-in Functions
 What comes In the box?
 IMAP Functions
 Manipulate mail boxes via the IMAP protocol
 LDAP Functions
 Works with most LDAP servers
 Mail Functions
 mail($recipient, $subject, $message)
Built-in Functions
 What comes In the box?
 Database Functions
 dba: dbm-style abstraction layer
 dBase
 Frontbase
 Informix
 Ingres II
 Interbase
 mSQL
Built-in Functions
 What comes In the box?
 Database Functions (cont.)
 MySQL
 Oracle
 PostgreSQL
 SQL Server
 MING
 Macromedia Flash
 PDF
 Create/manipulate PDF files dynamically
Built-in Functions
 What comes In the box?
 POSIX Functions
 Manipulate process information
 Regular Expression Functions
 Uses POSIX regex
 Semaphore and Socket Functions
 Available only on Unix
 Session Management Functions
PHP on Linux and Windows
 Code Portability
 The obvious: don’t use Unix or Windows specific
functions
 Create a reusable module for file system
differences, for example:
 if( PHP_OS == "Linux" )
{
$ConfigPath = "/var/www/conf";
$DataPath = "/var/www/data";
}
PHP on Linux and Windows
 Code Portability
 if( ereg("WIN", PHP_OS) )
{
$ApachePath = “C:/Program Files/Apache
Group/Apache”;
$ConfigPath = ”$ApachePath/htdocs/conf";
$DataPath = "$ApachePath/htdocs/data";
}
$ConfigFile = "$ConfigPath/paperwork.conf";
$CountryList = "$DataPath/countries.txt";
$StateAbbrList = "$DataPath/usstateabbrs.txt";
$StateNameList = "$DataPath/usstatenames.txt";
Tricks and Tips
 Coding
 Prototype your web pages first
 Separate the design of the site from the coding
 Turn repetitive code into functions
 Makes for more maintainable and reusable code
 Turn grunt code into functions
 Database access, configuration file access
Tricks and Tips
 Debugging
 Feature: PHP is not a strongly typed language
 Variables can be created anywhere in your code
 Undocumented Feature: PHP is not a strongly
typed language
 Typos in variable names will cause stuff to happen
Tricks and Tips
 Debugging
 Use scripts to dump form and session variables
 Write scripts to dump data to discover bad or missing
data
Tricks and Tips
 Development Tools
 Color coding editors
 vim, Emacs, Visual SlickEdit
 IDEs
 Windows
 Macromedia Dreamweaver
 Allaire Homesite
 Zend’s PHPEdit
 Linux
 ???
PHP 5
 Release Date
 ???
 Features
 Complete objects
 Objects with constructors
 Abstract classes
 Private, protected and abstract functions
 Private, protected and constant variables
 Namespaces
 Exception handling with try/catch blocks
Resources
 PHP Downloads and Online Documentation
 www.php.net
 Community
 www.phpbuilder.com: articles on PHP, discussion forums
 www.phpresourceindex.com: over 1,000 PHP scripts
 www.phpvolcano.com: PHP 5 information
 Newsgroups
 comp.lang.php
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Php tutorial by cyber security infotech(csi)

  • 1. PHP TUTORIAL BY CYBER SECURITY INFOTECH (CSI) http://www.csinfotech.org/
  • 2. About the company :  Cs-infotech is one of the best cyber security and website development company in India. we also provide Network security, software development, Cyber security corporate training and SEO and SMO services.  Our services are Employee Monitoring System, Employee Monitoring Software, Website Audit , Network Security , Network Audit and Information Security.
  • 3. Agenda  Introduction  PHP Language Basics  Built-in Functions  PHP on Linux and Windows  Tricks and Tips  PHP 5  Examples  Questions?
  • 4. Introduction  What is PHP?  PHP stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor”  An embedded scripting language for HTML like ASP or JSP  A language that combines elements of Perl, C, and Java
  • 5. Introduction  History of PHP  Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 for tracking access to his resume  Originally a set of Perl scripts known as the “Personal Home Page” tools  Rewritten in C with database functionality  Added a forms interpreter and released as PHP/FI: includes Perl-like variables, and HTML embedded syntax
  • 6. Introduction  History of PHP (cont.)  Rewritten again in and released as version 2.0 in November of 1997  Estimated user base in 1997 is several thousand users and 50,000 web sites served  Rewritten again in late 1997 by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski  More functionality added, database support, protocols and APIs
  • 7. Introduction  History of PHP (cont.)  User base in 1998 estimated 10,000 users and 100,000 web sites installed  Version 3.0 was released in June 1998 as PHP  Estimated user base in tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of web sites served
  • 8. Introduction  History of PHP (cont.)  Rewritten again in 1997 by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski  More functionality added (OOP features), database support, protocols and APIs  PHP 3.0 is released in June 1998 with some OO capability  The core is rewritten in 1998 for improved performance of complex applications
  • 9. Introduction  History of PHP (cont.)  The core is rewritten in 1998 by Zeev and Andi and dubbed the “Zend Engine”  The engine is introduced in mid 1999 and is released with version 4.0 in May of 2000  The estimated user base is hundreds of thousands of developers and several million of web sites served
  • 10. Introduction  History of PHP (cont.)  Version 5.0 will include version 2.0 of the Zend Engine  New object model is more powerful and intuitive  Objects will no longer be passed by value; they now will be passed by reference  Increases performance and makes OOP more attractive
  • 11. Introduction  Netcraft Statistics  11,869,645 Domains, 1,316,288 IP Addresses
  • 12. Introduction  Performance*  Zdnet Statistics  PHP pumped out about 47 pages/second  Microsoft ASP pumped out about 43 pages/second  Allaire ColdFusion pumped out about 29 pages/second  Sun Java JSP pumped out about 13 pages/second
  • 13. PHP Language Basics  The Script Tags  All PHP code is contained in one of several script tags:  <? // Some code ?>  <?php // Some code here ?>
  • 14. PHP Language Basics  The Script Tags (cont.)  <script language=“PHP"> // Some code here </script>  ASP-style tags  Introduced in 3.0; may be removed in the future  <% // Some code here %>
  • 15. PHP Language Basics  The Script Tags (cont.)  “Echo” Tags  <table> <tr> <td>Name:</td><td><?= $name ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Address:</td><td><?= $address ?></td> </tr> </table>
  • 16. PHP Language Basics  Hello World!: An Example  Like Perl, there is more than one way to do it  <?php echo “Hello World!”; ?>  <?php $greeting = “Hello World!” printf(“%s”, $greeting); php?>
  • 17. PHP Language Basics  Hello World!: An Example (cont.)  <script language=“PHP”> $hello = “Hello”; $world = “World!”; print $hello . $world </script>
  • 18. PHP Language Basics  Constants, Data Types and Variables  Constants define a string or numeric value  Constants do not begin with a dollar sign  Examples:  define(“COMPANY”, “Acme Enterprises”);  define(“YELLOW”, “#FFFF00”);  define(“PI”, 3.14);  define(“NL”, “<br>n”);
  • 19. PHP Language Basics  Constants, Data Types and Variables  Using a constant  print(“Company name: “ . COMPANY . NL);
  • 20. PHP Language Basics  Constants, Data Types and Variables  Data types  Integers, doubles and strings  isValid = true; // Boolean  25 // Integer  3.14 // Double  ‘Four’ // String  “Total value” // Another string
  • 21. PHP Language Basics  Constants, Data Types and Variables  Data types  Strings and type conversion  $street = 123;  $street = $street . “ Main Street”;  $city = ‘Naperville’; $state = ‘IL’;  $address = $street;  $address = $address . NL . “$city, $state”;  $number = $address + 1; // $number equals 124
  • 22. PHP Language Basics  Constants, Data Types and Variables  Data types  Arrays  Perl-like syntax  $arr = array("foo" => "bar", 12 => true);  same as  $arr[“foo”] = “bar”;  $arr[12] = true;
  • 23. PHP Language Basics  Constants, Data Types and Variables  Arrays (cont.)  <?php $arr = array("somearray" => array(6 => 5, 13 => 9, "a" => 42)); echo $arr["somearray"][6]; // 5 echo $arr["somearray"][13]; // 9 echo $arr["somearray"]["a"]; // 42 ?>
  • 24. PHP Language Basics  Constants, Data Types and Variables  Objects  Currently not much more advanced than than associative arrays Using constants  Before version 5.0, objects are passed by value  Slow  Functions can not easily change object variables
  • 25. PHP Language Basics  Constants, Data Types and Variables  Operators  Contains all of the operators like in C and Perl (even the ternary)  Statements  if, if/elseif  Switch/case  for, while, and do/while loops  Include and require statements for code reuse
  • 26. Built-in Functions  What comes In the box?  Array Manipulator Functions  sort, merge, push, pop, slice, splice, keys, count  CCVS: Interface to Red Hat’s credit system  COM functions: Interface to Windows COM objects  Date and Time Functions  getdate, mkdate, date, gettimeofday, localtime, strtotime, time
  • 27. Built-in Functions  What comes In the box?  Directory Functions  Platform independent  Error Handling Functions  Recover from warnings and errors  Filesystem Functions  Access flat files  Check directory, link, and file status information  Copy, delete, and rename files
  • 28. Built-in Functions  What comes In the box?  IMAP Functions  Manipulate mail boxes via the IMAP protocol  LDAP Functions  Works with most LDAP servers  Mail Functions  mail($recipient, $subject, $message)
  • 29. Built-in Functions  What comes In the box?  Database Functions  dba: dbm-style abstraction layer  dBase  Frontbase  Informix  Ingres II  Interbase  mSQL
  • 30. Built-in Functions  What comes In the box?  Database Functions (cont.)  MySQL  Oracle  PostgreSQL  SQL Server  MING  Macromedia Flash  PDF  Create/manipulate PDF files dynamically
  • 31. Built-in Functions  What comes In the box?  POSIX Functions  Manipulate process information  Regular Expression Functions  Uses POSIX regex  Semaphore and Socket Functions  Available only on Unix  Session Management Functions
  • 32. PHP on Linux and Windows  Code Portability  The obvious: don’t use Unix or Windows specific functions  Create a reusable module for file system differences, for example:  if( PHP_OS == "Linux" ) { $ConfigPath = "/var/www/conf"; $DataPath = "/var/www/data"; }
  • 33. PHP on Linux and Windows  Code Portability  if( ereg("WIN", PHP_OS) ) { $ApachePath = “C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache”; $ConfigPath = ”$ApachePath/htdocs/conf"; $DataPath = "$ApachePath/htdocs/data"; } $ConfigFile = "$ConfigPath/paperwork.conf"; $CountryList = "$DataPath/countries.txt"; $StateAbbrList = "$DataPath/usstateabbrs.txt"; $StateNameList = "$DataPath/usstatenames.txt";
  • 34. Tricks and Tips  Coding  Prototype your web pages first  Separate the design of the site from the coding  Turn repetitive code into functions  Makes for more maintainable and reusable code  Turn grunt code into functions  Database access, configuration file access
  • 35. Tricks and Tips  Debugging  Feature: PHP is not a strongly typed language  Variables can be created anywhere in your code  Undocumented Feature: PHP is not a strongly typed language  Typos in variable names will cause stuff to happen
  • 36. Tricks and Tips  Debugging  Use scripts to dump form and session variables  Write scripts to dump data to discover bad or missing data
  • 37. Tricks and Tips  Development Tools  Color coding editors  vim, Emacs, Visual SlickEdit  IDEs  Windows  Macromedia Dreamweaver  Allaire Homesite  Zend’s PHPEdit  Linux  ???
  • 38. PHP 5  Release Date  ???  Features  Complete objects  Objects with constructors  Abstract classes  Private, protected and abstract functions  Private, protected and constant variables  Namespaces  Exception handling with try/catch blocks
  • 39. Resources  PHP Downloads and Online Documentation  www.php.net  Community  www.phpbuilder.com: articles on PHP, discussion forums  www.phpresourceindex.com: over 1,000 PHP scripts  www.phpvolcano.com: PHP 5 information  Newsgroups  comp.lang.php