 | Level: Introductory Tyler Anderson (tyleranderson5@yahoo.com), Engineer, Stexar Corp.
Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com)Backstop Media
12 Jul 2005 This is Part 3 of a three-part "Learning PHP" series teaching you how to use PHP through building a simple workflow application. In this tutorial, you will learn about using HTTP authentication, streaming files, and how to create objects and exceptions.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes familiarity with the basic concepts of PHP, such as syntax, form handling, and accessing a database. You can get all the information you will need by working through "Learning PHP, Part 1" and Part 2.
System requirements
To follow along with the sample code, you need to be sure the following tools are installed and tested:
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HTTP server -- You can install PHP on a variety of HTTP servers, such as Apache and Microsoft® IIS, and on Windows®, Linux®, UNIX®, Mac OS X, and other platforms. In general, your choice of server doesn't matter, but this tutorial will cover some configurational issues regarding HTTP authentication using Apache 2.X as an example. You can download the Apache HTTP server from Apache.
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PHP -- Of course, you will also need a distribution of PHP. Both PHP V4 and V5 are in use at the time of this writing, but this tutorial concentrates on V5 because of its enhancements. Download PHP.
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Database -- Part of this project involves saving data to a database, so of course you'll need one of those, as well. This tutorial covers MySQL because it's so commonly used with PHP. You can download MySQL from MySQL.com.
Formats html, pdf
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