Designed to provide beginner programmers with a solid foundation in the PHP language, this course guides you through the basics of PHP with an experiential approach. PHP Fundamentals course provides you with an overview of the PHP language, main concepts, and helps you develop and adopt the methodologies and best practices of coding professionally in PHP.
Participant profiles
Non programmers and beginners with less than 6-12 months of software development experience who want to learn the basics of the PHP language
Web designers who intend to learn the basics of professional web programming and become PHP Developers would benefit from this course
Objectives
Understand the syntax and structural elements of PHP
Know how to correctly apply the various control-flow structures
Understand PHP data types, type-juggling, and operator precedence
Organize code into reusable functions
Accomplish tasks using PHP’s wealth of built-in file system and array functions
Understand essential elements of HTTP such as cookies and sessions
Understand the basics of validating input and escaping output
Build forms to collect information from a user
Interact with a database using PHP’s MySQL functions
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of HTML
Some familiarity with web sites – what they are and the very basics of how they work – but no programming experience
Course content
Module 1: Your First PHP Scripts
Lesson 1: Setting up your Environment
Lesson 2: Understand PHP development workflow
Lesson 3: Writing your first scripts
Lesson 4: Echo, print() and printf()
Module 2: Variables
Lesson 1: Introducing variables
Lesson 2: Variable operators
Module 3: Arrays
Lesson 1: Declaring simple PHP arrays
Lesson 2: Associative arrays
Lesson 3: Multidimensional arrays
Lesson 4: Super Global arrays
Module 4: Conditionals
Lesson 1: Simple conditionals
Lesson 2: Complex conditionals
Lesson 3: Switch/Case/Break
Lesson 4: Ternary cperator
Module 5: Loops
Lesson 1: While… Do While Loop
Lesson 2: For loops
Lesson 3: Foreach loops
Module 6: Custom PHP Functions
Lesson 1: Includes
Lesson 2: Creating a simple function
Lesson 3: Function arguments
Lesson 4: The return statement
Module 7: Server File I/O
Lesson 1: Saving files on the server
Lesson 2: Reading files on the server
Lesson 3: Append and delete
Lesson 4: CSV files
Module 8 : Sending email with PHP
Lesson 1: Sending text e-mail
Lesson 2: Sending HTML e-mail
Module 9 : Working with the mySQL Database
Lesson 1: Setting up the database
Lesson 2: Retrieving a query from the database
Lesson 3: Storing information in the database
Lesson 4: Deleting and updating database records
Lesson 5: Complex queries
Module 10: Useful PHP classes and objects
Lesson 1: Date object
Lesson 2: Strings in PHP
Lesson 3: sessions
Lesson 4: cookies
Documentation
Digital courseware included
Lab / Exercises
During the course participants are encouraged to actively participate in the learning experience by running example files during lectures and performing coding challenges during labs.
Each lab session allows you to compare your solution to the instructor’s
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