PHP

• PHP5
• PHP File Handling

• GD

  Useful functions

extract(array)

Walks through an assosiative array and initializes variable with names of the keys and values of the values.

getdefinedvars()

returns all variables valid in the current scope

Strings

Explode = Split

array explode (string separator, string string [, int limit])

Implode = Join

string implode (string glue, array pieces)

Useful functions

string strtolower (string str) string strtoupper (string string)

Special Variables

$POST - an associative array of the arguments sent via a post request $GET - an associative array of the arguments sent via a get request

$argv[0] - the get string

Files

PHP on the Command line

Reading input and writing output: $input = fgets(STDIN); fwrite(STDOUT, “My name is $input”); exit(0);

$argc contains the number of arguments (including the script name), $argv contains the array of these (with the 0th element being the script name)

Template Systems

Savant, Smarty, Flexy

http://wact.sourceforge.net/index.php/EnterprisePatterns?PHPSESSID=d5feaa958710dc15556dea3251ef3899

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/03/27/php_gd.html|Installing GD

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