Backed by a tireless development community, PHP has been a model of language evolution over its 10+ year history. Borne from a contract developer’s pet project, these days you’ll find PHP powering many of the world’s largest web sites, including Yahoo!, Digg, EA Games, and Lycos.

Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition covers every step of the design and building process involved in creating powerful, extendable e–commerce web sites. Based around a real–world example involving a web site selling t–shirts, you’ll learn how to create and manage a product catalog, build and integrate a shopping cart, and process customer accounts and PayPal/credit card transactions.

PhpMyAdmin is a well known and popular open-source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, and manage keys on fields. While most MySQL developers use routine features of phpMyAdmin every day, few are aware of the power and potential of its advanced features. This book builds a solid understanding of the core capabilities of phpMyAdmin before walking you through every facet of this legendary tool.

This book is aimed at PHP developers who are developing applications against an Oracle database. You may already be using another database and have a requirement or a preference to move to Oracle. You may be starting out with PHP database development. You may be unsure how to install PHP and Oracle. This book aims to remove any confusion.

This book is not a complete PHP or Oracle guide. It is assumed that you already have basic PHP and SQL knowledge and want best practices in using PHP against an Oracle database.

Before we begin, you will need to install a server on your own machine in order to test your PHP scripts locally. (If you have space on a Web server which supports PHP, you can also test your PHP there, but this is kind of a pain because it means you'll need to FTP your files or telnet in every time you want to change something. If you're not sure whether your site host supports PHP, just ask 'em.) To do so, simply follow Julie's article about installing a Web server with PHP. After you've done that, come back and we'll dive in by step-by-stepping through the basics.

# Getting Started
# Installation and Configuration
# Language Reference
# Security
# Features
# Function Reference
# PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine
# FAQ
# Appendices

Table of Contents

I. Getting Started

1. The PHP Documentation Framework
2. Tools and Setup Instructions
3. Working with CVS
4. About the DocBook Standard

II. Working with the PHP Documentation

5. File Overview
6. Conventions
7. What to Document?
8. Documentation Skeletons
9. Information for Translators
10. Mailing Lists, Newsgroups and CVS Modules
11. User Note Editing Guidelines
12. Automatization with scripts
13. Miscellaneous Notes

Chapter 1 Introduction to Intrusion Detection and Snort
1.1 What is Intrusion Detection?
1.2 IDS Policy
1.3 Components of Snort
1.4 Dealing with Switches
1.5 TCP Stream Follow Up
1.6 Supported Platforms
1.7 How to Protect IDS Itself
1.8 References

Chapter 2 Installing Snort and Getting Started
2.1 Snort Installation Scenarios
2.2 Installing Snort
2.3 Running Snort on Multiple Network Interfaces
2.4 Snort Command Line Options
2.5 Step-By-Step Procedure to Compile and Install Snort

*  Part 1: Installation
* Part 2: Getting Started with MySQL
* Part 3: Getting Started with PHP
* Part 4: Using PHP to access a MySQL database
o Challenge Solution

* Part 5: Relational Database Design
* Part 6: A Content Management System
* Part 7: Content Formatting and Submission
* Part 8: MySQL Administration
* Part 9: Advanced SQL
* Part 10: Advanced PHP