PHP Central Area, Central

Course details

PHP course is designed to enable web developers and others with limited programming experience to build dynamic database driven e-commerce web sites using the PHP programming language. Since PHP is such a rich and task-specific language, the course covers the most important range of functions in depth, and equips delegates to understand the remaining less essential aspects. The pacing is adjusted to suit the needs of public delegates and non-programmers.

Course Content

Module 1: Introducing PHP

• What is PHP?
• How does PHP work?
• Installing PHP
• Installing MySQL

Module 2: Getting Started with PHP

• PHP Syntax
• PHP Variables
• Data types
• Functions
• Function arguments

Module 3: Performing Operations

• Arithmetical Operators
• Logical Operators
• Assignment Operators
• Comparison Operators
• Conditional Operators

Module 4: Making Statements

• Conditional if statement
• If-else statement
• Switch statement
• For loop
• While loop
• Do-while loop
• Interrupting loops
• Return statement

Module 5: Using Arrays

• Creating an array
• Changing array element values
• Listing array elements
• Getting array size
• Adding & Removing arrays
• Manipulating array

Module 6: Generating Dynamic Content

• Identifying browser & platform
• Date & Time
• Getting form values
• Displaying submitted value
• String Manipulation
• Reloading a page
• Browser redirection

Module 7: File Handling with PHP

• Opening & Closing files
• Reading & Writing a file
• Logging visitor details
• Enabling file uploads
• Creating an upload form

Module 8: Data Persistence

• Introduction to cookies
• Set a cookie
• Introduction to session
• Starting a session
• Setting session preferences

Module 9: Sending email with PHP

• Enabling PHP email
• Creating a feedback form
• Sending plain text email
• Sending HTML email
• Creating and sending attachments with email
• Adding error checking

Module 10: Getting started with MySQL

• Introducing database
• Exploring database tables
• Creating a new Database
• Creating a database
• SQL data types
• SQL field modifiers
• Inserting table data
• Altering an existing table
• Updating records
• Deleting data, tables & database
• SQL queries

Module 11: PHP & MySQL together

• Creating a MySQL user & password
• Connecting a user to MySQL
• Listing databases
• Listing table names
• Creating and deleting a database
• Creating a database table
• Inserting table data
• Altering tables
• Retrieving data from tables

Module 12: User Authentication

• Creating a user table
• Adding authorized users
• Displaying authorized users
• The user log in form-handler script
• An authenticated log-in attempt

Module 13: A PHP Guestbook

• Creating a guestbook database table
• Signing the guestbook
• Inserting guestbook entries
• Using timestamp data
• Viewing the guestbook
• More PHP resources