Microsoft Word - Core PHP Programming Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites

Chapter 19. GENERATING GRAPHICS Dynamic Buttons................................................................................. ...

company that issues only one press release a month, you are better off creating these graphics by hand. With a company that issu ...

$ButtonLabel = "CLICK"; } if(!isset($ButtonFont)) { $ButtonFont = 5; } //create image and colors $image = imagecreate($ButtonWid ...

$ButtonLabelHeight = imagefontheight($ButtonFont); $ButtonLabelWidth = imagefontwidth($ButtonFont) * strlen($ButtonLabel); //det ...

and the top and left sides are drawn with the highlight color. This creates an illusion of the button being three-dimensional. T ...

Generating Graphs on the Fly Perhaps a more likely use of dynamic graphics is in generating graphs. Since graphs rely on data, t ...

from a form is probably not a practical idea for large amounts of data. The GET method imposes a relatively small limit on the t ...

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Pie Charts Pie charts are a good way to see how a value represents a percentage of a whole. Each data point is a slice of a pie ...

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Stretching Single-Pixel Images The following technique takes advantage of the behavior of most browsers with the width and heigh ...

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Part IV: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Software engineering is more than just programming. Like a civil engineer carefully designing and ...

Chapter 20. INTEGRATION WITH HTML Sprinkling PHP within an HTML Document............................................. Using PHP ...

Another benefit is that I can be sure each title will be rendered in exactly the same way. Less text to type for each title mean ...

This is an example of using a function to repeat a commonly-used piece of HTML code. <? PrintTitle("how it works"); ?> An ...

for($Blue = 0; $Blue count <($color); $Blue++) { $CellColor = $color[$Red]. $color[$Green]. $color[$Blue]; print("<TD BGCO ...

INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="InputState"> ZIP INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="InputZIP"> INPUT TYPE="reset"> INPUT TYPE="submit"> Li ...