Professional PHP Development

This is our most advanced PHP programming course, featured as a 19 hour online course delivered live. The topic selection is designed for established developers who wish to tackle some of the most advanced features of PHP 5, such as:

• Advanced OOP
  • Inheritance & Final
  • Interfaces
  • Reflection
  • SPL Iterators & Filters
  • Late Static Binding
• PHP Performance and scalability
  • Reasons & benefits
  • Strategies & methodologies for caching
  • Performance tips at all layers
• XML/XSL manipulation
  • What is is, why it works
  • XSL transform examples
• Web service design and hosting
  • Architectures & strategies
  • SOAP vs REST
  • Nouns & verbs
  • Testing & debugging
• Advanced SQL/MySQL
  • Models vs databases
  • Database indexes & information
  • EXPLAIN & Slow query log
  • Query performance strategies
  • JOINS – ANSI vs Theta
• Regular Expressions
  • Basic syntax
  • When to & when not to
  • Validation patterns – url, email
  • Replacement patterns – url, profanity