Introduction to PHP

$800.00


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Duration: 2 Days

This course showcases the popular and powerful scripting language for building database-driven web sites. Introduction to PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) teaches you the necessary skills to immediately exploit PHP on your Internet or intranet web site.

What You Will Learn

 

  • Understand PHP commands and program structure
  • Use PHP to process HTML forms
  • Master regular expressions for form validation and other applications
  • Read and write files with PHP
  • Build database-driven applications

Audience

 

This course is for web development professionals who need to add dynamic content to their web sites, including form processing and database-driven content generation.

Prerequistes

 

Students should be fluent in HTML and have mastered at least one major programming language such as Perl, Visual Basic, JavaScript, or Java. Experience with SQL is strongly recommended.

Course Outline

 

1. Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP): A Web Server-Side Technology

  • Client-Side vs. Server-Side Web Technologies
  • The Web's Client-Server Relationship
  • Which Web Servers Support PHP?

2. Writing PHP Pages

  • PHP Code In An HTML Context
  • PHP Statements
  • Enclosing Scripting Code within your PHP Pages
  • Strings in PHP
  • Developing PHPs in This Class
  • An Example: "Hello World"
  • Conditional Constructs with "if"
  • Comparison Operators in PHP
  • The Logical AND (&&) and OR (||)

3. Processing Data from Online Forms

  • The <FORM> Tag and Its Attributes
  • Scalar Variables in PHP
  • Demonstration: Displaying a Customized Greeting
  • Combining the Form and Its Processing Code In One PHP File

4. Working with Cookies

  • Setting a Cookie
  • Retrieving a Cookie
  • Example: Setting, Retrieving, and Expiring a Cookie

5. Maintaining State with Sessions

  • Sessions
  • Storing and Retrieving Session Values
  • Example: Using the Session Object to Track a Shopping Cart

6. Email with PHP

  • Sending E mail PHP

7. Writing To A Text File

  • Example: Writing to a Tab-Delimited File
  • Example: Reading from a tab-delimited text file

8. Loop Structures

  • For Loops
  • Foreach Loops
  • While Loops

9. Database Integration with PHP

  • The Databases Used in this Class
  • Issuing Database Commands with SQL
  • Example: Selecting and Viewing Data From guestbook.mdb
  • Connecting and Issuing Commands to the Database
  • Displaying Database Results

10. Working with Meta Information from a Database

  • Object-Oriented PHP
  • Development Strategy Session: Building an Interface for Updating Client Records

11. User-Defined Functions in PHP

  • Functions

12. Regular Expressions

  • Character Types and Ranges
  • Quantity Indicators
  • Location Indicators
  • Regular Expressions in PHP

13. Drilling Down and the Query String

  • Building the Query String into a Link
  • Generating Drill Down Links Dynamically

14. Installing PHP

15. Installing MySQL

Course Labs