PHP: The Basics is an introductory book which provides a brief explanation of the basic syntax of the PHP language. While it is not the intent of this book to make the reader a PHP expert, it does provide examples of basic programming concepts including:

Mathematical Operations
Logical Operations
Conditional Statements
Loops (for, while, foreach)
Functions
Arrays (Single, Multi-dimensional, Associative)

In addition, object oriented techniques are introduced. Examples demonstrate the use of:

classes
objects
properties
methods