This 19-hour online instructor-lead course, written and run exclusively by the php|architect team, explores the development of websites and native apps for mobile platforms using HTML5, jQuery Mobile, REST, and PHP.

The course is highly practical in nature, with plenty of code reviews and exercise aimed at creating a functional web-based system and then porting it into a native application for iOS, Android and Windows 7 Phone using the open-source PhoneGap platform.

Topics covered include:

• HTML5 and CSS (from a developer’s perspective)
• jQuery Mobile
• Ajax
• REST Web Services with PHP
• Progressive enhancement
• Transforming a website into a native app
• Deployment
• Security