PHP Modules Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

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PHP Modules Tutorials This PHP tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning PHP modules himself. Topics include running PHP scripts on Windows, macOS and Linux; cURL module for getting URL responses; DOM mudule for parsing HTML Documents; GD module for processing image files; MySQLi module for MySQL database server access; OpenSSL module for cryptographic operations; PCRE module for regular expression operations; SOAP module for using SOAP Web services. Zip module for managing ZIP archives; Updated in 2026 (Version v5.19) with minor changes.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Introduction and Installation of PHP

What Is PHP

Downloading and Installing PHP 7.3 for Windows

"php -help" - Command Line Options

"php -m" - Built-in Modules

Hello.php - My First PHP Script

"php -a" - PHP Interactive Shell

Downloading and Installing PHP Documentation

Managing PHP Environment and Modules on macOS

PHP Version Pre-Installed on macOS

Upgrade PHP Environment on macOS

Managing PHP Environment and Modules on CentOS

PHP Version Pre-Installed on CentOS

Install PHP Extensions on CentOS

PHP Version Pre-Installed on CentOS 6

Use PHP Composer on CentOS Computers

Configuration and Modules

Manage Runtime Configuration Directives

"php -i" - Display Configuration Information

php.ini - Configuration Directive File

Additional .ini Configuration Files

Load PHP Extensions/Modules

extension_dir - Module Library Location

"php -m" - Display Loaded Modules

get_extension_funcs() - Get Module Functions

dl() - Load Module Dynamically

cURL Module - Client for URL

DOM Module - Parsing HTML Documents

DOM (Document Object Model) Module

Parse and Traverse HTML Documents

Build New HTML Documents

Load HTML Documents with LIBXML_NOBLANKS

Remove Whitespaces in HTML Documents

DOCTYPE Element in HTML Documents

Remove Dummy Elements in HTML Documents

Install DOM Extension on CentOS

GD Module - Manipulating Images and Pictures

GD Library of Image Functions

GD Library - Draw Graphical Elements

GD Library - Print 2 Pictures on 1 Page

GD Library - Create Transparent Image

Transparent Image Over Text Web Page

GD Library - Pad Transparent Image

MySQLi Module - Accessing MySQL Server

MySQLi Module and Configuration

mysqli-hello.php - Test MySQLi Module

mysqli_connect() - Open MySQL Connection

mysqli_query() - Run SQL Queries

mysqli_affected_rows() - Count Affected Rows

mysqli_insert_id() - ID from AUTO_INCREMENT

mysqli_fetch_array() - Fetch Row from Query Result

mysqli_fetch_fields() - Fetch Field Information

Escape Escape Characters - \\\\ for \\

Summary of Basic MySQLi Functions

MySQLi Object-Oriented Programming

OpenSSL Module - Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

PCRE Module - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

PCRE Module and C Library

preg_match() - Regular Expression Match

preg_grep() - Search Array Members

preg_replace() - Replace Matched Substring

preg_split() - Split String into Tokens

preg_quote() - Escape Characters in Pattern

SOAP Module - Creating and Calling Web Services

SOAP Module and PHP Implementations of SOAP

Turning on the Default SOAP Module

Hello_There.php - First Example of SOAP

SoapClient - SOAP Client Class and Functions

Hello_There_Dump.php - Debugging SOAP Messages

What Is WSDL

Using SOAP Extension in non-WSDL Mode

SOAP Module - Server Functions and Examples

Zip Module - Managing ZIP Archive Files

The ZipArchive Class

Create New ZIP Archive

Extract Files from ZIP Archive

Create ZIP Archive with Directory

Create ZIP Archive for Download

References

Index

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