Introduction to PHP

Overview & Objectives:
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.

Course Duration:
1 Day (Part-time or Fulltime available)

Who should attend:
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.

Course Modules:

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

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