Book excerpt: This PHP tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning PHP himself. Topics include PHP script syntax; data types, variables, array, expressions, statements and functions; Web server integration; HTTP requests and controlling HTTP responses; sessions, cookies, and file uploads/downloads; MySQL database server access; files, directories, and ZIP archives; parsing HTML Documents; processing image files; SOAP extension; managing non-ASCII characters; classes and objects; using PHP on Windows, macOS and Linux; executing external programs on operating system. Updated in 2022 (Version v5.16) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/PHP.