Miscellaneous topics

I have to admit that I hate the idea of a "miscellaneous" chapter as much as the next person - surely all parts of PHP fit nicely together into groups of associated functionality? Well, no - although the majority of this book is split up nicely into related sections, there are several parts that simply do not relate to anything else close by or deserve their own section to give them justice.

Chapter contents

  1. 16.1. Process control
    1. 16.1.1. Taking control of PHP
    2. 16.1.2. Timing your signals
    3. 16.1.3. Getting into multiprocessing
    4. 16.1.4. Duplication of resources when forking
    5. 16.1.5. The third parameter to pcntl_waitpid()
    6. 16.1.6. Event-driven child termination
    7. 16.1.7. Other ways to evaluate pcntl_waitpid()'s return value
    8. 16.1.8. Running programs in the current process space
    9. 16.1.9. Piping between processes
  2. 16.2. POSIX functions
    1. 16.2.1. Error handling
  3. 16.3. The Standard PHP Library
  4. 16.4. Reflection
  5. 16.5. Browser detection
  6. 16.6. Arbitrary-precision mathematics
  7. 16.7. Spellchecking and text matching
    1. 16.7.1. Calculating similarity of words
  8. 16.8. Templates
    1. 16.8.1. Templates ABC
    2. 16.8.2. How do they work?
    3. 16.8.3. When not to use templates
    4. 16.8.4. Writing your own
  9. 16.9. Summary
  10. 16.10. Exercises
  11. 16.11. Further reading
  12. 16.12. Next chapter

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