Professional PHP 5

Duration: 7 classes (19 hours)

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Course Description

Join acclaimed author, and PHP expert Paul Reinheimer in this **exclusive 19-hour course dedicated to professional PHP development**.

OOP & design patterns
Strings & patterns
Arrays
Functions
Security
Web features
Databases & SQL
PHP 4/5 differences
Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
XML and Web Services
Design and theory
Streams and network programming

Course Structure

1. Introductions (1 hour)

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

2. Advanced OOP & Design Patterns (3 hours)

PHP 5's new OOP features
Extending OOP
Constructors & Destructors
By-reference
InstanceOf
Clone
Magic methods
Design patterns
Interfaces
SPL
Exceptions
Reflection
Homework

3. XML (3 hours)

Introducing XML
SAX vs. DOM
Using SAX
Using DOM with SimpleXML
XPath
Using the DOM extensions
Web Services
XML-RPC
SOAP

4. PCRE & Email (3 hours)

POSIX vs. Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions
Basic rules
Meta characters
Escape sequences
Character classes
Replace callbacks
Lookahead
Lookbehind
Mail basics
Multi-part messages with MIME
Attachments

5. Encryption & Advanced Databasics (3 hours)

One way encryption (hashing)
Salts
Two way encryption
Databases
Chained query execution
Multi-inserts
Subqueries
Unions
Prepared statements
Unbuffered queries
Tips & tricks

6. Performance (3 hours)

Opcode caches
Configuration options
Matching I/O sizes
Bandwidth optimisation
Profiling & benchmarking
Drive tuning
Caching
SQL performance

7. Templating, Internationalization, Security (3 hours)

Templating basics
I18n
Character sets
Smarty
Security basics
Input validation
SSL/TLS
''register_globals''
XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
SQL injection
File security
Session security
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