• Conocimientos básicos del sistema operativo Windows XP o Macintosh X
• Manejo de Internet y correo electrónico
• Inglés básico

 Unit 1: Regular Expressions

• Introduction
  
• Switching from ereg to preg
  
• Matching Words
  
• Finding the nth Occurrence of a Match
  
• Choosing Greedy or Nongreedy Matches
  
• Finding All Lines in a File That Match a Pattern
  
• Capturing Text Inside HTML Tags
  
• Preventing Parentheses from Capturing Text
  
• Escaping Special Characters in a Regular Expression
  
• Reading Records with a Pattern Separator
  
• Using a PHP Function in a Regular Expression

 Unit 2: Files

• Introduction
  
• Creating or Opening a Local File
  
• Creating a Temporary File
  
• Opening a Remote File
  
• Reading from Standard Input
  
• Reading a File into a String
  
• Counting Lines, Paragraphs, or Records in a File
  
• Processing Every Word in a File
  
• Picking a Random Line from a File
  
• Randomizing All Lines in a File
  
• Processing Variable-Length Text Fields
  
• Reading Configuration Files
  
• Modifying a File in Place Without a Temporary File
  
• Flushing Output to a File
  
• Writing to Standard Output
  
• Writing to Many Filehandles Simultaneously
  
• Escaping Shell Metacharacters
  
• Passing Input to a Program
  
• Reading Standard Output from a Program
  
• Reading Standard Error from a Program
  
• Locking a File
  
• Reading and Writing Custom File Types
  
• Reading and Writing Compressed Files

Unit 3: Directories

• Introduction
  
• Getting and Setting File Timestamps
  
• Getting File Information
  
• Changing File Permissions or Ownership
  
• Splitting a Filename into Its Component Parts
  
• Deleting a File
  
• Copying or Moving a File
  
• Processing All Files in a Directory
  
• Getting a List of Filenames Matching a Pattern
  
• Processing All Files in a Directory Recursively
  
• Making New Directories
  
• Removing a Directory and Its Contents
  
• Program: Web Server Directory Listing
  
• Program: Site Search

 Unit 4: Command-Line PHP

• Introduction
  
• Parsing Program Arguments
  
• Parsing Program Arguments with getopt
  
• Reading from the Keyboard
  
• Running PHP Code on Every Line of an Input File
  
• Reading Passwords
  
• Program: Command Shell

 Unit 5: PEAR and PECL

• Introduction
  
• Using the PEAR Installer
  
• Finding PEAR Packages
  
• Finding Information About a Package
  
• Installing PEAR Packages
  
• Upgrading PEAR Packages
  
• Uninstalling PEAR Packages
  
• Installing PECL Packages