The Complete Web Development Course - Learn By Building Apps

Course details

This is the ultimate course for all web developers who want to learn web programming while building practical projects along with the instructor. This course will help both beginners and experts alike. This course will primarily teach project building using MySQL and PHP but it covers Javascript, JQuery, Ajax, web frameworks, Wordpress and various other popular technologies in great detail.

This course can be done sequentially or you can pick and select the project and start working on them directly. These projects are all independent of each other. Besides the royalty free code can be used for any of your personal projects.

Project Details:

Shoutit Shoutbox

Description: Shoutit is a PHP powered shoutbox which uses mySQL to store shouts. This is a very basic PHP/MySQL
application. It is strictly procedural coding and uses the mysqli api

Features/Technologies:
PHP Syntax, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL Select, MySQL Insert, Loops, Superglobals (GET, POST), Associative Arrays, HTML/CSS

PHP Quizzer

Description: Quizzer is a simple PHP/MySQL based quiz engine. it uses multiple choices and admins can create
new quizes from within the browser

Features/Technologies:
PHP Syntax, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL Select, MySQL Insert, Loops, Superglobals (GET, POST), Associative Arrays,
HTML/CSS, Includes, Math Functions

PHP Lovers Blog
Description: This blog project is much more advanced than the earlier projects. We create a fairly large blogging
system. We create an admin section to add posts, delete posts as well as update them. We take our first look
at using libraries and classes in OOP as we create a completely custom MySQLi Database class. We also create
custom helper functions

Features/Technologies:
PHP OOP, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL CRUD, Loops, Superglobals (GET, POST), Associative Arrays, Bootstrap Framework

TalkingSpace Form

Description: Here we step up our coding standards and completely separate logic from display. We create a PDO
database class along with 3 or 4 other classes including Topics, Users and a Validator class for form validation

Features/Technologies:
Separate Logic & Display, PHP OOP, PHPMyAdmin, PDO & Perpared Statements, MySQL CRUD, Loops, Superglobals (GET, POST), Associative Arrays,
Custom Template, User & Topic Libs, Sessions, Bootstrap Framework

The GamingPlace Shopping Cart

Description: This is an ecommerce-based MVC web application written with the Codeigniter framework. We utilize many of
Codeigniters libraries, helpers and structure. Users can register, add products to their cart and checkout using PayPal

Features/Technologies:
Codeigniter, MVC, PHP OOP, PHPMyAdmin, PDO & Perpared Statements, MySQL CRUD, Sessions, PayPal Express Checkout API

Wordpress Contact Widget

Description: We will create a plugin/widget for Wordpress that will allow us to put a small contact form in any widget position in the template. It
gives users an easy way to get in touch. The widget will have options in the backend like recipient and subject

Features/Technologies:
Wordpress Platform, Wordpress Plugin API, Wordpress Widget API, PHP OOP, PHPMyAdmin

AJAX Address Book

Description: A completely custom addressbook application written in PHP along with jQuery and Ajax. Ajax is used to fetch contacts as well as add and edit them.
We use the "Foundation" HTML5 framework for the application's user interface.

Features/Technologies:
Foundation Framework, Ajax, jQuery, PHP OOP, PHPMyAdmin, PDO & Perpared Statements, MySQL CRUD, Superglobals (GET, POST), Associative Arrays

JobFinds Job Board

Description: This is a fairly large project in which we will be using the CakePHP framework to build a job board. Users can register and login
to add a job. We also implement search & filter to narrow down job searches by keywords, location and category. We use the Kickstart HTML5 framework for UI

Features/Technologies:
CakePHP, MVC, Kickstart, PHP OOP, PHPMyAdmin, PDO & Perpared Statements, MySQL CRUD, Superglobals (GET, POST), Associative Arrays

Kewl CMS Content Management System

Description: Kewl CMS is a Codeigniter based application for managing website content. We will build both frontend and backend. Bootstrap will be used for UI

Features/Technologies:
Codeigniter, Bootstrap, MVC, PHP OOP, PHPMyAdmin, PDO & Perpared Statements, MySQL CRUD, Superglobals (GET, POST), Associative Arrays


Wordpress Bridge Plugin for TGP

Description: We will build a Wordpress plugin that will allow us to connect to the "TheGamingPlace" database and display a set number of products in
a Wordpress page using a custom shortcode

Features/Technologies:
Wordpress Platform, Wordpress Plugin API, Wordpress Widget API, PHP OOP, PHPMyAdmin