PHP Scripting

IPA
1st
Semester, 2007-2008
Internet 1
Ch. 14
PHP
attasr@ipa.edu.sa

09/30/15 © Reem Al-Attas 2
Introduction
PHP
 PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
 Originally called “Personal Home Page Tools”
 Popular server-side scripting technology
 Open-source
 Anyone may view, modify and redistribute source
code
 Supported freely by community
 Platform independent

PHP
Basic application
 Scripting delimiters
 <? php ?>
 Must enclose all script code
 Variables preceded by $ symbol
 Case-sensitive
 End statements with semicolon
 Comments
 // for single line
 /* */ for multiline
 Filenames end with .php by convention

1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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7 <?php
8 $name = "LunaTic"; // declaration
9 ?>
10
11 <html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
12 <head>
13 <title>A simple PHP document</title>
14 </head>
15
16 <body style = "font-size: 2em">
17 <p>
18 <strong>
19
20 
21 Welcome to PHP, <?php print( "$name" ); ?>!
22 </strong>
23 </p>
24 </body>
25 </html>
Declare variable $name
Scripting delimiters
Single-line comment
Function print outputs the value of variable
$name

PHP

PHP
Variables
 Can have different types at different times
 Variable names inside strings replaced by their
value
 Type conversions
 settype function
 Type casting
 Concatenation operator
 . (period)
 Combine strings

PHP
Data type Description
int, integer Whole numbers (i.e., numbers without a decimal point).
float, double Real numbers (i.e., numbers containing a decimal point).
string Text enclosed in either single ('') or double ("") quotes.
bool, Boolean True or false.
array Group of elements of the same type.
object Group of associated data and methods.
Resource An external data source.
NULL No value.
Fig. 26.2PHP data types.

1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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8 <head>
9 <title>PHP data types</title>
10 </head>
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12 <body>
13
14 <?php
15
16 // declare a string, double and integer
17 $testString = "3.5 seconds";
18 $testDouble = 79.2;
19 $testInteger = 12;
20 ?>
21
Assign a string to variable
$testString
Assign a double to variable
$testDoubleAssign an integer to variable
$testInteger

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23 <?php print( $testString ); ?> is a string.<br />
24 <?php print( $testDouble ); ?> is a double.<br />
25 <?php print( $testInteger ); ?> is an integer.<br />
26
27 <br />
28 Now, converting to other types:<br />
29 <?php
30
31 // call function settype to convert variable
32 // testString to different data types
33 print( "$testString" );
34 settype( $testString, "double" );
35 print( " as a double is $testString <br />" );
36 print( "$testString" );
37 settype( $testString, "integer" );
38 print( " as an integer is $testString <br />" );
39 settype( $testString, "string" );
40 print( "Converting back to a string results in
41 $testString <br /><br />" );
42
43 $data = "98.6 degrees";
Print each variable’s value
Call function settype to
convert the data type of
variable $testString to a
double.
Call function settype to
convert the data type of
variable $testString to an
integer.
Convert variable $testString
back to a string

44
45 // use type casting to cast variables to a
46 // different type
47 print( "Now using type casting instead: <br />
48 As a string - " . (string) $data .
49 "<br />As a double - " . (double) $data .
50 "<br />As an integer - " . (integer) $data );
51 ?>
52 </body>
53 </html>
Use type casting to cast variable
$data to different types

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PHP
Arithmetic operators
 Assignment operators
 Syntactical shortcuts
 Before being assigned values, variables have value
undef
Constants
 Named values
 define function

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8 <head>
9 <title>Using arithmetic operators</title>
10 </head>
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12 <body>
13 <?php
14 $a = 5;
15 print( "The value of variable a is $a <br />" );
16
17 // define constant VALUE
18 define( "VALUE", 5 );
19
20 // add constant VALUE to variable $a
21 $a = $a + VALUE;
22 print( "Variable a after adding constant VALUE
23 is $a <br />" );
24
Define constant VALUE.
Add constant VALUE to variable $a.

25 // multiply variable $a by 2
26 $a *= 2;
27 print( "Multiplying variable a by 2 yields $a <br />" );
28
29 // test if variable $a is less than 50
30 if ( $a < 50 )
31 print( "Variable a is less than 50 <br />" );
32
33 // add 40 to variable $a
34 $a += 40;
35 print( "Variable a after adding 40 is $a <br />" );
36
37 // test if variable $a is 50 or less
38 if ( $a < 51 )
39 print( "Variable a is still 50 or less<br />" );
40
41 // test if variable $a is between 50 and 100, inclusive
42 elseif ( $a < 101 )
43 print( "Variable a is now between 50 and 100,
44 inclusive<br />" );
45 else
46 print( "Variable a is now greater than 100
47 <br />" );
48
Multiply variable $a by two using the
multiplication assignment operator *=.
Test whether variable $a is less than 50
Add 40 to variable $a using the addition assignment
operator +=.
Print if variable $a is less than 50.

49 // print an uninitialized variable
50 print( "Using a variable before initializing:
51 $nothing <br />" );
52
53 // add constant VALUE to an uninitialized variable
54 $test = $num + VALUE;
55 print( "An uninitialized variable plus constant
56 VALUE yields $test <br />" );
57
58 // add a string to an integer
59 $str = "3 dollars";
60 $a += $str;
61 print( "Adding a string to variable a yields $a
62 <br />" );
63 ?>
64 </body>
65 </html>
Add constant VALUE to an uninitialized
variable.
Add a string to an integer.
Print an uninitialized variable ($nothing).

PHP

PHP
Keywords
 Reserved for language features
 if…elseif…else
Arrays
 Group of related data
 Elements
 Name plus braces and index
 Indices start at zero
 count function
 array function

PHP
Arrays, cont.
 Built-in iterators
 Maintain pointer to element currently referenced
 reset
 key
 next
 foreach loops

PHP
PHP keywords
and
break
case
class
continue
default
do
else
elseif
extends
false
for
foreach
function
global
if
include
list
new
not
or
require
return
static
switch
this
true
var
virtual
xor
while
Fig. 26.5PHP keywords.

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8 <head>
9 <title>Array manipulation</title>
10 </head>
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12 <body>
13 <?php
14
15 // create array first
16 print( "<strong>Creating the first array</strong>
17 <br />" );
18 $first[ 0 ] = "zero";
19 $first[ 1 ] = "one";
20 $first[ 2 ] = "two";
21 $first[] = "three";
22
23 // print each element’s index and value
24 for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $first ); $i++ )
25 print( "Element $i is $first[$i] <br />" );
Create the array $first by assigning a value
to an array element.
Assign a value to the array, omitting the index.
Appends a new element to the end of the array.Use a for loop to print out each element’s index and value.
Function count returns the total number of elements in the
array.

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27 print( "<br /><strong>Creating the second array
28 </strong><br />" );
29
30 // call function array to create array second
31 $second = array( "zero", "one", "two", "three" );
32 for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $second ); $i++ )
33 print( "Element $i is $second[$i] <br />" );
34
35 print( "<br /><strong>Creating the third array
36 </strong><br />" );
37
38 // assign values to non-numerical indices
39 $third[ "ArtTic" ] = 21;
40 $third[ "LunaTic" ] = 18;
41 $third[ "GalAnt" ] = 23;
42
43 // iterate through the array elements and print each
44 // element’s name and value
45 for ( reset( $third ); $element = key( $third );
46 next( $third ) )
47 print( "$element is $third[$element] <br />" );
48
Call function array to create an array that contains
the arguments passed to it. Store the array in variable
$second.
Assign values to non-numerical indices
in array $third.
Function reset sets the internal pointer to the
first element of the array.
Function key returns the index of the element which
the internal pointer references.
Function next moves the internal pointer to the next
element.

49 print( "<br /><strong>Creating the fourth array
50 </strong><br />" );
51
52 // call function array to create array fourth using
53 // string indices
54 $fourth = array(
55 "January" => "first", "February" => "second",
56 "March" => "third", "April" => "fourth",
57 "May" => "fifth", "June" => "sixth",
58 "July" => "seventh", "August" => "eighth",
59 "September" => "ninth", "October" => "tenth",
60 "November" => "eleventh","December" => "twelfth"
61 );
62
63 // print each element’s name and value
64 foreach ( $fourth as $element => $value )
65 print( "$element is the $value month <br />" );
66 ?>
67 </body>
68 </html>
Operator => is used in function array to assign each
element a string index. The value to the left of the
operator is the array index, and the value to the right is
the element’s value.

PHP

String Processing and Regular
Expressions

Expressions
String processing
 Equality and comparison two important
operations
 strcmp function
 Returns –1 if string 1 < string 2
 Returns 0 if string 1 = string 2
 Returns 1 if string 1 > string 2
 Relational operators

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8 <head>
9 <title>String Comparison</title>
10 </head>
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12 <body>
13 <?php
14
15 // create array fruits
16 $fruits = array( "apple", "orange", "banana" );
17
18 // iterate through each array element
19 for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $fruits ); $i++ ) {
20
21 // call function strcmp to compare the array element
22 // to string "banana"
23 if ( strcmp( $fruits[ $i ], "banana" ) < 0 )
24 print( $fruits[ $i ]." is less than banana " );
Use a for loop to iterate through each array element.
Function strcmp compares two strings. If the first string
alphabetically precedes the second, then –1 is returned. If
the strings are equal, 0 is returned. If the first string
alphabetically follows the second, then 1 is returned.

25 elseif ( strcmp( $fruits[ $i ], "banana" ) > 0 )
26 print( $fruits[ $i ].
27 " is greater than banana " );
28 else
29 print( $fruits[ $i ]." is equal to banana " );
30
31 // use relational operators to compare each element
32 // to string "apple"
33 if ( $fruits[ $i ] < "apple" )
34 print( "and less than apple! <br />" );
35 elseif ( $fruits[ $i ] > "apple" )
36 print( "and greater than apple! <br />" );
37 elseif ( $fruits[ $i ] == "apple" )
38 print( "and equal to apple! <br />" );
39
40 }
41 ?>
42 </body>
43 </html>
Use relational operators to compare each array
element to string “apple”.

Expressions

Expressions
Regular expressions
 Pattern matching templates
 ereg function
 POSIX
 preg_match function
 Perl
 ereg_replace function
Building regular expressions
 Metacharacters
 $, ., ^
 Brackets [ ]

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8 <head>
9 <title>Regular expressions</title>
10 </head>
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12 <body>
13 <?php
14 $search = "Now is the time";
15 print( "Test string is: '$search'<br /><br />" );
16
17 // call function ereg to search for pattern 'Now'
18 // in variable search
19 if ( ereg( "Now", $search ) )
20 print( "String 'Now' was found.<br />" );
21
Function ereg searches for the literal
characters Now inside variable $search.

22 // search for pattern 'Now' in the beginning of
23 // the string
24 if ( ereg( "^Now", $search ) )
25 print( "String 'Now' found at beginning
26 of the line.<br />" );
27
28 // search for pattern 'Now' at the end of the string
29 if ( ereg( "Now$", $search ) )
30 print( "String 'Now' was found at the end
31 of the line.<br />" );
32
33 // search for any word ending in 'ow'
34 if ( ereg( "[[:<:]]([a-zA-Z]*ow)[[:>:]]", $search,
35 $match ) )
36 print( "Word found ending in 'ow': " .
37 $match[ 1 ] . "<br />" );
38
39 // search for any words beginning with 't'
40 print( "Words beginning with 't' found: ");
41
42 while ( eregi( "[[:<:]](t[[:alpha:]]+)[[:>:]]",
43 $search, $match ) ) {
44 print( $match[ 1 ] . " " );
45
The dollar sign special character ($) search for the
pattern Now at the end of the string.
The expression inside the parentheses, [a-zA-Z]*ow,
matches any word ending in ow. The quantifier *
matches the preceding pattern 0 or more times.
The special bracket expressions [[:<:]] and
[[:>:]] match the beginning and end of a word,
respectively.
Placing a pattern in parentheses stores the matched
string in the array that is specified in the third argument
to function ereg.
The while loop is used to find each occurrence of a
word in the string beginning with t.
The pattern used in this example, [[:<:]]
(t[[:alpha:]]+)[[:>:]], matches any word
beginning with the character t followed by one or more
characters. Character class [[:alpha:]] recognizes
any alphabetic character.
Function eregi is used to specify case insensitive
pattern matches.
The caret special character (^) matches the
beginning of a string. Function ereg searches the
beginning of the string for pattern Now .

46 // remove the first occurrence of a word beginning
47 // with 't' to find other instances in the string
48 $search = ereg_replace( $match[ 1 ], "", $search );
49 }
50
51 print( "<br />" );
52 ?>
53 </body>
54 </html>
After printing a match of a word beginning with t, function
ereg_replace is called to remove the word from the string.
This is necessary be because to find multiple instances of a
given pattern, the first matched instance must first be removed.
Function ereg_replace takes three arguments: the pattern to
match, a string to replace the matched string and the string to
search.

Expressions

Expressions
Quantifier Matches
{n} Exactly n times.
{m,n} Between m and n times inclusive.
{n,} n or more times.
+ One or more times (same as {1,}).
* Zero or more times (same as {0,}).
? Zero or one time (same as {0,1}).
Fig. 26.9 Some PHP quantifiers.

Expressions
Character class Description
alnum Alphanumeric characters (i.e., letters [a-zA-Z] or digits [0-9]).
alpha Word characters (i.e., letters [a-zA-Z]).
digit Digits.
space Whitespace.
lower Lowercase letters.
upper Uppercase letters.
Fig. 26.10 Some PHP character classes.

Viewing Client/Server
Environment Variables

Viewing Client/Server Environment
Variables
Environment variables
 Provide information about execution
environment
 Type of Web browser
 Type of server
 Details of HTTP connection
 Stored as array in PHP
 $_ENV

Variables
Variable name Description
$_SERVER Data about the currently running server.
$_ENV Data about the client’s environment.
$_GET Data posted to the server by the get method.
$_POST Data posted to the server by the post method.
$_COOKIE Data contained in cookies on the client’s computer.
$GLOBALS Array containing all global variables.
Fig. 26.11 Some useful global arrays.

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9 <title>Environment Variables</title>
10 </head>
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12 <body>
13 <table border = "0" cellpadding = "2" cellspacing = "0"
14 width = "100%">
15 <?php
16
17 // print the key and value for each element
18 // in the $_ENV array
19 foreach ( $_ENV as $key => $value )
20 print( "<tr><td bgcolor = "#11bbff">
21 <strong>$key</strong></td>
22 <td>$value</td></tr>" );
23 ?>
24 </table>
25 </body>
26 </html>
The foreach loop is used to print out the keys and
values for each element in the $_ENV array.
PHP stores environment variables and their values in
the $_ENV array.

Variables

Form Processing and
Business Logic

Form Processing and Business
Logic
Form processing
 action property
 Where to send form data
 method property
 post
 Each element has unique name

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8 <head>
9 <title>Sample form to take user input in XHTML</title>
10 </head>
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12 <body>
13
14 <h1>This is a sample registration form.</h1>
15 Please fill in all fields and click Register.
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17 
18 <form method = "post" action = "form.php">
19 <img src = "images/user.gif" alt = "User" /><br />
20 <span style = "color: blue">
21 Please fill out the fields below.<br />
22 </span>
23
The action attribute of the form element
indicates that when the user clicks Register, the
form data will be posted to form.php.

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25 <img src = "images/fname.gif" alt = "First Name" />
26 <input type = "text" name = "fname" /><br />
27
28 <img src = "images/lname.gif" alt = "Last Name" />
29 <input type = "text" name = "lname" /><br />
30
31 <img src = "images/email.gif" alt = "Email" />
32 <input type = "text" name = "email" /><br />
33
34 <img src = "images/phone.gif" alt = "Phone" />
35 <input type = "text" name = "phone" /><br />
36
37 <span style = "font-size: 10pt">
38 Must be in the form (555)555-5555</span>
39 <br /><br />
40
41 <img src = "images/downloads.gif"
42 alt = "Publications" /><br />
43
45 Which book would you like information about?
46 </span><br />
47
A unique name (e.g., email) is assigned to each
of the form’s input fields. When Register is
clicked, each field’s name and value are sent to
the Web server.

48 
49 <select name = "book">
50 <option>Internet and WWW How to Program 3e</option>
51 <option>C++ How to Program 4e</option>
52 <option>Java How to Program 5e</option>
53 <option>XML How to Program 1e</option>
54 </select>
55 <br /><br />
56
57 <img src = "images/os.gif" alt = "Operating System" />
58 <br /><span style = "color: blue">
59 Which operating system are you currently using?
60 <br /></span>
61
62 
63 <input type = "radio" name = "os" value = "Windows XP"
64 checked = "checked" />
65 Windows XP
66
67 <input type = "radio" name = "os" value =
68 "Windows 2000" />
69 Windows 2000
70
71 <input type = "radio" name = "os" value =
72 "Windows 98" />
73 Windows 98<br />

form.html
(4 of 4)
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75 <input type = "radio" name = "os" value = "Linux" />
76 Linux
77
78 <input type = "radio" name = "os" value = "Other" />
79 Other<br />
80
81 
82 <input type = "submit" value = "Register" />
83 </form>
84
85 </body>
86 </html>

Logic

Form Processing and Business Logic
 Business logic
 Confirm that valid information was entered
 extract function
 Creates variables corresponding to each key-value pair in
array
 Easily retrieve all values sent to PHP page
 Regular expressions very helpful
 Do checks on client side where possible
 JavaScript
 Conserves server resources
 Ending a script
 die function
 Remember to close all HTML tags

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9 <title>Form Validation</title>
10 </head>
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12 <body style = "font-family: arial,sans-serif">
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14 <?php
15 extract( $_POST );
16
17 // determine whether phone number is valid and print
18 // an error message if not
19 if ( !ereg( "^([0-9]{3})[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$",
20 $phone ) ){
21
Function ereg is called to determine whether the
phone number entered by the user is valid.
The expression ( matches the opening
parentheses of a phone number.
We access the phone field’s value from
form.html by using variable $phone.
The parentheses in the expression must be
followed by three digits ([0-9]{3}), a closing
parenthesis, three digits, a literal hyphen and
four additional digits.

22 print( "<p><span style = "color: red;
23 font-size: 2em">
24 INVALID PHONE NUMBER</span><br />
25 A valid phone number must be in the form
26 <strong>(555)555-5555</strong><br />
28 Click the Back button, enter a valid phone
29 number and resubmit.<br /><br />
30 Thank You.</span></p></body></html>" );
31
32 die(); // terminate script execution
33 }
34 ?>
35
36 <p>Hi
38 <strong>
39 <?php print( "$fname" ); ?>
40 </strong>
41 </span>.
42 Thank you for completing the survey.<br />
43
Function die terminates script execution

44 You have been added to the
46 <strong>
47 <?php print( "$book " ); ?>
48 </strong>
49 </span>
50 mailing list.
51 </p>
52 <strong>The following information has been saved
53 in our database:</strong><br />
54
55 <table border = "0" cellpadding = "0" cellspacing = "10">
56 <tr>
57 <td bgcolor = "#ffffaa">Name </td>
58 <td bgcolor = "#ffffbb">Email</td>
59 <td bgcolor = "#ffffcc">Phone</td>
60 <td bgcolor = "#ffffdd">OS</td>
61 </tr>
62
63 <tr>
64 <?php
65

form.php
(4 of 4)
66 // print each form field’s value
67 print( "<td>$fname $lname</td>
68 <td>$email</td>
69 <td>$phone</td>
70 <td>$os</td>" );
71 ?>
72 </tr>
73 </table>
74
75 <br /><br /><br />
76 <div style = "font-size: 10pt; text-align: center">
77 This is only a sample form.
78 You have not been added to a mailing list.
79 </div>
80 </body>
81 </html>

Logic

Verifying a Username and
Password

Verifying a Username and Password
 Private website
 Only accessible to certain individuals
 Encrypt username and password data when sending,
storing and retrieving for increased security
 Implementing password checking
 Login information stored in file
 fopen function
 Read, write, append modes
 Store data using fputs
 n newline character
 Close files when done
 fclose function

Password
Implementing password checking, cont.
 Trim newline character
 chop function
 Split string into substrings given a certain
delimiter
 split function
 If username/password match list, allow access

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8 <head>
9 <title>Verifying a username and a password.</title>
10
11 <style type = "text/css">
12 td { background-color: #DDDDDD }
13 </style>
14 </head>
15
16 <body style = "font-family: arial">
17 <p style = "font-size: 13pt">
18 Type in your username and password below.
19 <br />
20 <span style = "color: #0000FF; font-size: 10pt;
21 font-weight: bold">
22 Note that password will be sent as plain text
23 </span>
24 </p>
25

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27 <form action = "password.php" method = "post">
28 <br />
29
30 <table border = "0" cellspacing = "0"
31 style = "height: 90px; width: 123px;
32 font-size: 10pt" cellpadding = "0">
33
34 <tr>
35 <td colspan = "3">
36 <strong>Username:</strong>
37 </td>
38 </tr>
39
40 <tr>
42 <input size = "40" name = "USERNAME"
43 style = "height: 22px; width: 115px" />
44 </td>
45 </tr>
46
Form data is posted to password.php.

47 <tr>
49 <strong>Password:</strong>
50 </td>
51 </tr>
52
53 <tr>
55 <input size = "40" name = "PASSWORD"
56 style = "height: 22px; width: 115px"
57 type = "password" />
58 <br/></td>
59 </tr>
60
61 <tr>
63 <input type = "submit" name = "Enter"
64 value = "Enter" style = "height: 23px;
65 width: 47px" />
66 </td>
68 <input type = "submit" name = "NewUser"
69 value = "New User"
70 style = "height: 23px" />
71 </td>

72 </tr>
73 </table>
74 </form>
75 </body>
76 </html>

Password

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9 <?php
11
12 // check if user has left USERNAME or PASSWORD field blank
13 if ( !$USERNAME || !$PASSWORD ) {
14 fieldsBlank();
15 die();
16 }
17
18 // check if the New User button was clicked
19 if ( isset( $NewUser ) ) {
20
21 // open password.txt for writing using append mode
22 if ( !( $file = fopen( "password.txt",
23 "a" ) ) ) {
24
Variable names, when preceded by the logical
negation operator (!), return true if they are empty
or set to 0. This checks if a user has submitted a form
without specifying a username or password.
Function fieldsBlank is called if the user has
submitted an incomplete form to notify the user
that all form fields must be completed.
Function isset tests whether the user has
pressed the New User button, indicating that a
new user must be added.
To add a new user, we open the file
password.txt in append mode and assign the
file handle that is returned to variable $file.

25 // print error message and terminate script
26 // execution if file cannot be opened
27 print( "<title>Error</title></head><body>
28 Could not open password file
29 </body></html>" );
30 die();
31 }
32
33 // write username and password to file and
34 // call function userAdded
35 fputs( $file, "$USERNAME,$PASSWORDn" );
36 userAdded( $USERNAME );
37 }
38 else {
39
40 // if a new user is not being added, open file
41 // for reading
42 if ( !( $file = fopen( "password.txt",
43 "r" ) ) ) {
44 print( "<title>Error</title></head>
45 <body>Could not open password file
46 </body></html>" );
47 die();
48 }
49
Print an error message and terminate script execution
if the file cannot be opened.
Function fputs writes the name and password to the
text file..
Function userAdded is called to print a message to the
user to indicate that the username and password were
added to the file.

50 $userVerified = 0;
51
52 // read each line in file and check username
53 // and password
54 while ( !feof( $file ) && !$userVerified ) {
55
56 // read line from file
57 $line = fgets( $file, 255 );
58
59 // remove newline character from end of line
60 $line = chop( $line );
61
62 // split username and password
63 $field = split( ",", $line, 2 );
64
65 // verify username
66 if ( $USERNAME == $field[ 0 ] ) {
67 $userVerified = 1;
68
69 // call function checkPassword to verify
70 // user’s password
71 if ( checkPassword( $PASSWORD, $field )
72 == true )
73 accessGranted( $USERNAME );
74 else
75 wrongPassword();
Before entering the while loop, variable
$userVerified is set to 0.
The while loop executes as long as the there are more
lines in the file to read and variable $userVerified is
still 0 or empty.
Function fgets reads a line from the text file.
The result is assigned to variable $line.
Function chop removes the newline character
from the end of the line.
Function split is called to separate the string at the
specified delimiter (in this case, a comma). The
resulting array is stored in array $field.The username entered by the user is tested
against the one returned in the text file (stored
in the first element of the array). If they match,
variable $userVerified is set to 1.
Function checkPassword is called to verify the
user’s password. Variable $PASSWORD and array
$field are passed to the function.
If function checkPassword returns true, function
accessGranted is called to notify the client that
permission has been granted. Otherwise, function
wrongPassword is called.

76 }
77 }
78
79 // close text file
80 fclose( $file );
81
82 // call function accessDenied if username has
83 // not been verified
84 if ( !$userVerified )
85 accessDenied();
86 }
87
88 // verify user password and return a boolean
89 function checkPassword( $userpassword, $filedata )
90 {
91 if ( $userpassword == $filedata[ 1 ] )
92 return true;
93 else
94 return false;
95 }
96
After the while loop has executed, function
fclose is called to close the file.
If variable $userVerified has not been set to a
value other than 0, function accessDenied is
called to notify the client that access has been
denied.
Function checkPassword compares the user’s
password to the password in the file. If they match,
true is returned, whereas false is returned if they
do not.

97 // print a message indicating the user has been added
98 function userAdded( $name )
99 {
100 print( "<title>Thank You</title></head>
101 <body style = "font-family: arial;
102 font-size: 1em; color: blue">
103 <strong>You have been added
104 to the user list, $name.
105 <br />Enjoy the site.</strong>" );
106 }
107
108 // print a message indicating permission
109 // has been granted
110 function accessGranted( $name )
111 {
112 print( "<title>Thank You</title></head>
114 font-size: 1em; color: blue">
115 <strong>Permission has been
116 granted, $name. <br />
117 Enjoy the site.</strong>" );
118 }
119
Function userAdded prints a message to the
client indicating that the user has been added.
Function accessGranted prints a
message to the client indicating that
permission has been granted.

120 // print a message indicating password is invalid
121 function wrongPassword()
122 {
123 print( "<title>Access Denied</title></head>
125 font-size: 1em; color: red">
126 <strong>You entered an invalid
127 password.<br />Access has
128 been denied.</strong>" );
129 }
130
131 // print a message indicating access has been denied
132 function accessDenied()
133 {
137 <strong>
138 You were denied access to this server.
139 <br /></strong>" );
140 }
141
Function wrongPassword prints a message to the
client indicating that the password is invalid.
Function accessDenied prints a message to the
client indicating that access has been denied.

142 // print a message indicating that fields
143 // have been left blank
144 function fieldsBlank()
145 {
149 <strong>
150 Please fill in all form fields.
151 <br /></strong>" );
152 }
153 ?>
154 </body>
155 </html>
Function fieldsBlank prints a message to the
client indicating that all form fields have not been
completed.

Password

password.txt
1 account1,password1

Connecting to a Database
Databases
 Store and maintain data
 MySQL is a free database product
 PHP supports many database operations
 Access databases from Web pages

3
4 
5 
6
8 <head>
9 <title>Sample Database Query</title>
10 </head>
11
12 <body style = "background-color: #F0E68C">
13 <h2 style = "font-family: arial color: blue">
14 Querying a MySQL database.
15 </h2>
16
17 <form method = "post" action = "database.php">
18 <p>Select a field to display:
19
20 
21

22 <select name = "select">
23 <option selected = "selected">*</option>
24 <option>ID</option>
25 <option>Title</option>
26 <option>Category</option>
27 <option>ISBN</option>
28 </select>
29 </p>
30
31 <input type = "submit" value = "Send Query"
32 style = "background-color: blue;
33 color: yellow; font-weight: bold" />
34 </form>
35 </body>
36 </html>
Select box containing options for a SELECT
query.

Interacting with databases
 SQL
 Structured Query Language
 Used to manipulate databases
 Several useful functions
 mysql_connect
 mysql_select_db
 mysql_query
 mysql_error
 mysql_fetch_row
 mysql_close

3
4 
5 
6 
7
9 <head>
10 <title>Search Results</title>
11 </head>
12
13 <body style = "font-family: arial, sans-serif"
14 style = "background-color: #F0E68C">
15 <?php
16
18
19 // build SELECT query
20 $query = "SELECT " . $select . " FROM Books";
21
22 // Connect to MySQL
23 if ( !( $database = mysql_connect( "localhost",
24 "httpd", "" ) ) )
25 die( "Could not connect to database" );
Build the select query and assign the
string to variable $query.
Function mysql_connect returns a database
handle which represents PHP’s connection to a
database. If this connection is not made, function
die is called to terminate script execution.

26
27 // open Products database
28 if ( !mysql_select_db( "Products", $database ) )
29 die( "Could not open Products database" );
30
31 // query Products database
32 if ( !( $result = mysql_query( $query, $database ) ) ) {
33 print( "Could not execute query! <br />" );
34 die( mysql_error() );
35 }
36 ?>
37
38 <h3 style = "color: blue">
39 Search Results</h3>
40
42 style = "background-color: #ADD8E6">
43
44 <?php
45
46 // fetch each record in result set
47 for ( $counter = 0;
48 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $result );
49 $counter++ ){
50
Function mysql_select_db is called to specify the
database to be queried.
Function mysql_query returns an object
containing the result set of the query, which
we assign to variable $result.
The for loop iterates through each
record in the result set while
constructing an XHTML table from
the results. Variable $counter is
incremented by one for each row
retrieved. Function mysql_fetch_row returns an
array containing the elements of each row
in the result set of our query ($result).

51 // build table to display results
52 print( "<tr>" );
53
54 foreach ( $row as $key => $value )
55 print( "<td>$value</td>" );
56
57 print( "</tr>" );
58 }
59
60 mysql_close( $database );
61 ?>
62
63 </table>
64
65 <br />Your search yielded <strong>
66 <?php print( "$counter" ) ?> results.<br /><br /></strong>
67
68 <h5>Please email comments to
69 <a href = "mailto:deitel@deitel.com">
70 Deitel and Associates, Inc.
71 </a>
72 </h5>
73
74 </body>
75 </html>
The foreach loop iterates through the
array containing the elements of each row
and prints out each element in an
individual table cell.
The total number of results are printed to the
client.

Cookies
Cookies
 Store information on client computer
 Track preferences and other information
 Stored as text files on hard drive
 Never store sensitive information, such as
credit card numbers, in a cookie
 Security risk
Cookies and PHP
 setcookie function
 Name
 Value
 Expiration date

3
4 
5 
6
8 <head>
9 <title>Writing a cookie to the client computer</title>
10 </head>
11
12 <body style = "font-family: arial, sans-serif;
13 background-color: #99CCFF">
14
15 <h2>Click Write Cookie to save your cookie data.</h2>
16

17 <form method = "post" action = "cookies.php"
18 style = "font-size: 10pt">
19 <strong>Name:</strong><br />
20 <input type = "text" name = "NAME" /><br />
21
22 <strong>Height:</strong><br />
23 <input type = "text" name = "HEIGHT" /><br />
24
25 <strong>Favorite Color:</strong><br />
26 <input type = "text" name = "COLOR" /><br />
27
28 <input type = "submit" value = "Write Cookie"
29 style = "background-color: #F0E86C; color: navy;
30 font-weight: bold" /></p>
31 </form>
32 </body>
33 </html>
Form data is posted to cookies.php.

Cookies

1 <?php
2 // Fig. 26.21: cookies.php
3 // Program to write a cookie to a client's machine
4
6 // write each form field’s value to a cookie and set the
7 // cookie’s expiration date
8 setcookie( "Name", $NAME, time() + 60 * 60 * 24 * 5 );
9 setcookie( "Height", $HEIGHT, time() + 60 * 60 * 24 * 5 );
10 setcookie( "Color", $COLOR, time() + 60 * 60 * 24 * 5 );
11 ?>
12
15
17 <head>
18 <title>Cookie Saved</title>
19 </head>
20
21 <body style = "font-family: arial, sans-serif">
22 <p>The cookie has been set with the following data:</p>
23
Function setcookie takes the name of the
cookie to be set as the first argument,
followed by the value to be stored in the
cookie. The optional third argument specifies
the expiration date of the cookie.

24 
25 <br /><span style = "color: blue">Name:</span>
26 <?php print( $NAME ) ?><br />
27
28 <span style = "color: blue">Height:</span>
29 <?php print( $HEIGHT ) ?><br />
30
31 <span style = "color: blue">Favorite Color:</span>
32
33 <span style = "color: <?php print( "$COLOR">$COLOR" ) ?>
34 </span><br />
35 <p>Click <a href = "readCookies.php">here</a>
36 to read the saved cookie.</p>
37 </body>
38 </html>
Each form field’s value is printed to
confirm the data that has been set as a
cookie with the user.
Hyperlink to readCookies.php.

Cookies

Cookies
Reading cookies
 $_COOKIE environment variable
 Array
 foreach loop to access each element
 Split into key and value

Cookies
Cookie storage
 Internet Explorer
 Stores cookies in Cookies directory
 Text file

Cookies
Cookies directory before a cookie is written.
Cookies directory after a cookie is written.

3
4 
5 
6
8 <head><title>Read Cookies</title></head>
9
10 <body style = "font-family: arial, sans-serif">
11
12 <p>
13 <strong>
14 The following data is saved in a cookie on your
15 computer.
16 </strong>
17 </p>
18

19 <table border = "5" cellspacing = "0" cellpadding = "10">
20 <?php
21
22 // iterate through array $_COOKIE and print
23 // name and value of each cookie
24 foreach ( $_COOKIE as $key => $value )
25 print( "<tr>
26 <td bgcolor="#F0E68C">$key</td>
27 <td bgcolor="#FFA500">$value</td>
28 </tr>" );
29 ?>
30
31 </table>
32 </body>
33 </html>
PHP creates array $_COOKIE which contains all
cookie values indexed by their names.
The foreach loop iterates through the $_COOKIE
array and prints the name and value of each cookie in
an XHTML table.

Cookies

Dynamic Content in PHP
Dynamically alter XHTML content
 Form’s action property set to same page that
contains it
 Perform different actions when page is loaded
and form is submitted
 isset variable
 Check for errors
 Write different XHTML when errors encountered
 $$variable syntax
 References variable whose name equals the value of
$variable
 If input is valid, make MySQL database calls

3
4 
5 
6
8 <head>
9 <title>Sample form to take user input in XHTML</title>
10 </head>
11
12 <body>
13 <?php
14 extract ( $_POST );
15 $iserror = false;
16
17 // array of book titles
18 $booklist = array( "Internet and WWW How to Program 3e",
19 "C++ How to Program 4e",
20 "Java How to Program 5e",
21 "XML How to Program 1e" );
22
Build array of options for the form.

23 // array of possible operating systems
24 $systemlist = array( "Windows XP",
25 "Windows 2000",
26 "Windows 98",
27 "Linux",
28 "Other");
29
30 // array of name and alt values for the text input fields
31 $inputlist = array( "fname" => "First Name",
32 "lname" => "Last Name",
33 "email" => "Email",
34 "phone" => "Phone" );
35
36 if ( isset ( $submit ) ) {
37 if ( $fname == "" ) {
38 $formerrors[ "fnameerror" ] = true;
39 $iserror = true;
40 }
41
42 if ( $lname == "" ) {
43 $formerrors[ "lnameerror" ] = true;
44 $iserror = true;
45 }
46
Check for errors or omissions in form field
input.
If the page is being loaded as a result of a form
submission, do error checking and then retrieve
information from the database.

47 if ( $email == "" ) {
48 $formerrors[ "emailerror" ] = true;
49 $iserror = true;
50 }
51
52 if ( !ereg( "^([0-9]{3})[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$", $phone ) ) {
53 $formerrors[ "phoneerror" ] = true;
54 $iserror = true;
55 }
56
57 if ( !$iserror ) {
58
59 // build INSERT query
60 $query = "INSERT INTO contacts " .
61 "( LastName, FirstName, Email, Phone, Book, OS ) " .
62 "VALUES ( '$lname', '$fname', '$email', " .
63 "'" . quotemeta( $phone ) . "', '$book', '$os' )";
64
67 "httpd", "" ) ) )
69
70 // open MailingList database
71 if ( !mysql_select_db( "MailingList", $database ) )
72 die( "Could not open MailingList database" );
If there were no errors, query the MySQL
database.

73
74 // execute query in MailingList database
78 }
79
80 print( "<p>Hi
81 <span style = 'color: blue'>
82 <strong>$fname</strong></span>.
83 Thank you for completing the survey.<br />
84
85 You have been added to the
87 <strong>$book</strong></span>
88 mailing list.
89 </p>
90 <strong>The following information has been saved
91 in our database:</strong><br />
92
93 <table border = '0' cellpadding = '0' cellspacing = '10'>
94 <tr>
95 <td bgcolor = '#ffffaa'>Name</td>
96 <td bgcolor = '#ffffbb'>Email</td>
97 <td bgcolor = '#ffffcc'>Phone</td>

98 <td bgcolor = '#ffffdd'>OS</td>
99 </tr>
100 <tr>
101
102 
103 <td>$fname $lname</td>
104 <td>$email</td>
105 <td>$phone</td>
106 <td>$os</td>
107 </tr></table>
108
109 <br /><br /><br />
110 <div style = 'font-size: 10pt; text-align: center'>
111 <div style = 'font-size : 18pt'>
112 <a href = 'formDatabase.php'>
113 Click here to view entire database.</a></div>
114 This is only a sample form.
115 You have not been added to a mailing list.
116 </div></body></html>" );
117 die();
118 }
119 }
120
121 print( "<h1>This is a sample registration form.</h1>
122 Please fill in all fields and click Register." );
Halt the script so the form-generation code
does not execute.

123
124 if ( $iserror ) {
125 print( "<br /><span style = 'color : red'>
126 Fields with * need to be filled in properly.</span>" );
127 }
128
129 print( "
130 <form method = 'post' action = 'dynamicform.php'>
131 <img src = 'images/user.gif' alt = 'User' /><br />
133 Please fill out the fields below.<br />
134 </span>
135
136 " );
137 foreach ( $inputlist as $inputname => $inputalt ) {
138 $inputtext = $inputvalues[ $inputname ];
139
140 print( "<img src = 'images/$inputname.gif'
141 alt = '$inputalt' /><input type = 'text'
142 name = '$inputname' value = '" . $$inputname . "' />" );
143
144 if ( $formerrors[ ( $inputname )."error" ] == true )
145 print( "<span style = 'color : red'>*</span>" );
146
147 print( "<br />" );
148 }
If the form input contained errors, place a red
asterisk (*) next to the text field.
Fill in the forms using $$variable syntax.

149
150 print( "<span style = 'font-size : 10pt" );
151
152 if ( $formerrors[ "phoneerror" ] )
153 print( "; color : red" );
154
155 print( "'>Must be in the form (555)555-5555
156 </span><br /><br />
157
158 <img src = 'images/downloads.gif'
159 alt = 'Publications' /><br />
160
162 Which book would you like information about?
163 </span><br />
164
165 
166 <select name = 'book'>" );
167
168 foreach ( $booklist as $currbook ) {
169 print( "<option" );
170
171 if ( ( $currbook == $book ) )
172 print( " selected = 'true'" );
173
Make sure the correct book is selected in the
dropdown box.

174 print( ">$currbook</option>" );
175 }
176
177 print( "</select><br /><br />
178 <img src = 'images/os.gif' alt = 'Operating System' />
179 <br /><span style = 'color: blue'>
180 Which operating system are you currently using?
181 <br /></span>
182
183 " );
184
185 $counter = 0;
186
187 foreach ( $systemlist as $currsystem ) {
188 print( "<input type = 'radio' name = 'os'
189 value = '$currsystem'" );
190
191 if ( $currsystem == $os ) print( "checked = 'checked'" );
192 if ( $iserror && $counter == 0 ) print( "checked = 'checked'" );
193
194 print( " />$currsystem" );
195
196 if ( $counter == 2 ) print( "<br />" );
197 $counter++;
198 }
199
Make sure the correct OS is checked in the
checkbox.

200 print( "
201 <br />
202 <input type = 'submit' name = 'submit' value = 'Register' />
203 </form></body></html>" );
204 ?>

3
4 
5 
6 
7
9 <head>
10 <title>Search Results</title>
11 </head>
12
13 <body style = "font-family: arial, sans-serif"
14 style = "background-color: #F0E68C">
15 <?php
16
18
19 // build SELECT query
20 $query = "SELECT * FROM contacts";
21
24 "httpd", "" ) ) )
Build the query string.

26
27 // open MailingList database
28 if ( !mysql_select_db( "MailingList", $database ) )
29 die( "Could not open MailingList database" );
30
31 // query MailingList database
35 }
36 ?>
37
38 <h3 style = "color: blue">
39 Mailing List Contacts</h3>
40
42 style = "background-color: #ADD8E6">
43
44 <tr>
45 <td>ID</td>
46 <td>Last Name</td>
47 <td>First Name</td>
48 <td>E-mail Address</td>
49 <td>Phone Number</td>
50 <td>Book</td>

51 <td>Operating System</td>
52 </tr>
53 <?php
54
55 // fetch each record in result set
56 for ( $counter = 0;
57 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $result );
58 $counter++ ){
59
60 // build table to display results
61 print( "<tr>" );
62
63 foreach ( $row as $key => $value )
64 print( "<td>$value</td>" );
65
66 print( "</tr>" );
67 }
68
69 mysql_close( $database );
70 ?>
71
72 </table>
73
74 </body>
75 </html>
Dynamically create a table
containing each mailing list
member.
Retrieve each mailing list
member record from the
database.

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Operator Precedence
Operator Type Associativity
new constructor none
[] subscript right to left
~
!
++
--
-
@
bitwise not
not
increment
decrement
unary negative
error control
right to left
*
/
%
multiplication
division
modulus
left to right
+
-
.
addition
subtraction
concatenation
left to right
<<
>>
bitwise shift left
bitwise shift right
left to right
<
>
<=
>=
less than
greater than
less than or equal
greater than or equal
none
==
!=
===
!==
equal
not equal
identical
not identical
none
Fig. 26.27 PHP operator precedence and associativity.

09/30/15 © Reem Al-Attas 114
Operator Precedence
Operator Type Associativity
& bitwise AND left to right
^ bitwise XOR left to right
| bitwise OR left to right
&& logical AND left to right
|| logical OR left to right
=
+=
-=
*=
/=
&=
|=
^=
.=
<<=
>>=
assignment
addition assignment
subtraction assignment
multiplication assignment
division assignment
bitwise AND assignment
bitwise OR assignment
bitwise exclusive OR assignment
concatenation assignment
bitwise shift left assignment
bitwise shift right assignment
left to right
and logical AND left to right
xor exclusive OR left to right
or logical OR left to right
, list left to right
Fig. 26.27 PHP operator precedence and associativity.

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