Rob Aley / Роб Алей - PHP Beyond the web [2013, PDF / MOBI / EPUB, ENG]

Welcome
About the author
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 "Use PHP? We're not building a website, you know!".
1.2 Are you new to PHP?
1.3 Reader prerequisites. Or, what this book isn't
1.4 An important note for Windows and Mac users
1.5 About the sample code
1.6 External resources
1.7 Book formats/versions available, and access to updates
1.8 English. The Real English.
2 Getting away from the Web - the basics
2.1 PHP without a web server
2.2 PHP versions - what's yours?
2.3 A few good reasons NOT to do it in PHP
2.4 Thinking about security
3 Understanding the CLI SAPI, and why you need to
3.1 What's different about the CLI SAPI?
3.2 CLI SAPI installation
3.3 PHP command line options
3.4 Command line arguments for your script
3.5 The many ways to call PHP scripts
3.6 "Click to Run" your PHP
3.7 Quitting your script
4 Development tools
4.1 PHP REPLs
4.2 Build systems
4.3 Continuous Integration
4.4 Debuggers
4.5 Testing and Unit Testing
4.6 Static code analysis
4.7 Virtual development & testing environments
4.8 Source/version control systems & code repositories
4.9 IDEs and editors
4.10 Documentation generators
4.11 Profilers
4.12 Other tools
5 User facing software
5.1 Command line interface basics
5.2 Advanced command line input
5.3 Using STDIN, STOUT & STDERR
5.4 Partial GUI elements - dialogs
5.5 Dialogs invoked from the shell
5.6 Windows dialogs
5.7 Static HTML output
5.8 Complete graphical interfaces (GUIs)
5.9 Understanding GUI and event-based programming
5.10 PHP-GTK
5.11 wxPHP
5.12 Local web server & browser
5.13 PHP's Built-in testing server
5.14 Web sockets & browser
5.15 SiteFusion
5.16 Winbinder
5.17 Adobe AIR
5.18 Titanium
5.19 PHP-Qt
5.20 PHP/TK
6 System software
6.1 Daemons in PHP
6.2 Creating a daemon
6.3 Network daemons using libevent
6.4 File monitoring daemons using inotify
6.5 Task dispatch & management systems
6.6 Gearman and PHP
6.7 Other task dispatch systems
7 Interacting with other software
7.1 Starting external processes from PHP, or "shelling out"
7.2 Talking to other processes
7.3 Semaphores
7.4 Shared Memory
7.5 PHP message queues
7.6 Third party message queues
7.7 APC cached variables
7.8 Virtual files - tmpfs
7.9 Standard streams
7.10 Linux signals
7.11 Task dispatch & management systems
8 Talking to the system
8.1 Filesystem interactions
8.2 Data files & formats
8.3 Dealing with large files
8.4 Understanding filesystem interactions
8.5 The PHP file status and realpath caches
8.6 Working with cross platform filesystems
8.7 Accessing the Windows Registry
8.8 Linux signals
8.9 Linux timed-event signals
8.10 Printing (to paper)
8.11 Audio
8.12 Databases - no change here
8.13 Other hardware and system interactions
9 Performance & stability - profiling and improving
9.1 The background on performance
9.2 Specific issues for general purpose programming
9.3 Profile, profile, profile!
9.4 Manual profiling
9.5 Profiling tools
9.6 Low level profiling
9.7 Profiling - the likely results
9.8 Silver bullets
9.9 Silver bullet #1 - Better hardware
9.10 Silver bullet #2 - Newer PHP versions
9.11 Silver bullet #3 - Opcode caching
9.12 Silver bullet #4 - Compiling
9.13 Silver bullet #5 - JIT compilers and alternative Virtual Machines
9.14 The SPL - Standard PHP Library
9.15 Garbage collection
9.16 Multi-threading and concurrent programming in PHP
9.17 Big data and PHP - MapReduce
9.18 Data caching
9.19 Know thy functions
9.20 Outsourcing code to other languages
9.21 Other performance tips and tricks
9.22 Stability and performance of long running processes
9.23 Avoid micro and premature optimisations
10 Distribution and deployment issues
10.1 Error handling and logging
10.2 Installers and bundling files
10.3 Embedded data files at end of PHP script
10.4 Phar executable bundles
10.5 Generic installers
10.6 Controlling the (PHP) environment
10.7 Extending your application with plug-ins
10.8 Documentation
10.9 Licensing & legal
10.10 Deploying frameworks
11 Where now? or, Thanks & feedback
11.1 Giving feedback, and getting help and support
11.2 Giving testimonials
11.3 Are you reading a "pirated" copy?

Appendix A : Compiling and installing PHP and its extensions
Compiling and installing PHP itself
Compiling and installing (extra) core extensions
Installing multiple versions of PHP
PEAR and PECL
Composer
Symfony2 bundles

Appendix B : File & data format libraries for PHP
Office documents
Compression, archiving & encryption
Graphics
Audio
Multimedia & video
Programming, technical and data interchange
Misc

Appendix C : Sources of help
The PHP manual
Official mailing lists
Stack Overflow
Other books
Newsgroups
PHP Subredit
PHP news sites

Appendix D : Interesting libraries, tools, articles and projects
Alternative programming styles
Machine learning, artificial intelligence and data analysis
Databases
Natural language
Graphics and imaging
Unicode
Audio
Event driven PHP
PHP internals
Website/service APIs
Security related
Javascript
Servers
Programming
Financial
Appendix E : Integrated Development Environments for PHP
Opensource
Commercial

Appendix F : Changelog