PHP 5 Essentials

Duration: 7 classes (19 hours)

Course Description

Course Structure

1. Introductions (1 hour)

• Introduction to the training system
• Introduction to participants and the instructor
• Preparing for the course
• Suggested materials

2. PHP Basics (3 hours)

• PHP's place in the world
• Variables
• Assignment operators
• Conditional operators
• Introducing the superglobal arrays
• Introducing forms

3. Strings & Functions (3 hours)

• String usage
• Quotation styles
• Reading PHP Documentation
• Functions
• Using functions to manipulate strings
• Using functions to validate strings
• Formatting strings

4. Arrays and user defined function (3 hours)

• Enumerated arrays
• Associative arrays
• Array functions
• Creating your own functions

5. The Web and OOP (3 hours)

• HTTP and statelessness
• Looking at a basic HTTP request
• Forms
• GET
• POST
• Cookies
• Beginning OOP
• Terminology

6. Sessions & More OOP (3 hours)

• Sessions as a state mechanism
• Advanced Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

7. Databases with MySQL (3 hours)

• Introducing databases
• Database concepts & terminology
• Creating a table
• Inserting data
• Selecting data
• Other query types
• Indices

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