PHP Installation & Programming
Course: PHPWD01
Duration: 4 Days
Level: I
Course Summary
This class provides delegates with the knowledge and skills
necessary to install and develop with PHP.
Delegates are taught how to install PHP (PHP:Hypertext PreProcessor)
and MySQL software, and to develop PHP code that delivers
exciting dynamic pages that can be frequently updated,
cater for the end-user needs, manipulate a MySQL database,
and offer highly-efficient e-commerce.
This highly-practical course discusses PHP web development
in the Windows and Linux environments, although the majority
of the course is applicable to delegates using other platforms.
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Topics Covered In This Course
Introduction
- Background
- History, rationale and purpose of PHP
- Why MySQL
- Benefits and Considerations of PHP and MySQL
Installation
- Requirements
- Platform Considerations
- Installing PHP with IIS
- Configuring and Starting PHP with IIS
- Installing PHP with Apache on Linux and Unix
- Configuring and Starting PHP with Linux and Unix
- Testing your installation
Processing Web Pages
- Viewing a web page
- Server-side Scripting
- Caching
- Variables, data types, constants, initialization
Web Forms
- The Form tag
- Form attributes
- HTML Form Controls and PHP
- Processing returned values
Control structures
- If statements
- Multiple conditions - ..else..elsif, Nested If statements
- Switch statements
- Form validation
- While loops
- Do loops
- For loops
Functions
- Defining and calling functions
- Switching functions
- Variable scope
- Passing values
- Recursion
- Include files
Debugging
- Error handling in PHP
- Further form validation
- Debugging techniques
Arrays
- Array concepts
- Initializing Arrays
- Sorting Arrays
- Array functions
- Multi-dimensional arrays
- Array multisorting
- Foreach loops
Regular Expressions
- Pattern matching concepts
- Regular Expression Syntax
Objects
- Object-oriented Terminology
- Using pre-defined classes
- Creating user-defined classes
File Handling
- File processing Concepts
- Opening and closing files
- Reading and writing to files
- Getting information of files
- Copying, renaming and deleting files
- Directory processing
- Directory functions
- Navigating a directory hierarch
Managing Persistence
- HTTP and HTML interactivity
- HTTP as a Stateless Protocol
- Hidden form fields
- Query Strings
- Reading cookies, cookie parameters
- Session variable Creation and Manipulation
- Object session variables, Serialization
Managing databases through a device-independent API
- Data Modeling
- Database Architectures
- Database Products
- Database Design
Managing databases with MySQL
- Why MySQL
- Introduction to SQL
- Running a MySQL client
- Selecting a database
- Manipulating data in a Database
- Handling server errors
- Managing databases and tables from MySQL
- Retrieving, inserting, updating and deleting data in MySQL
using PHP
Processing XML with PHP
- What is XML?
- XML Document Structure
- Well-formed XML
- DTDs
- Parsing XML with PHP and XPAT
- Parsing using the DOM-XML functions
- XSL templates, filtering output through XSL
Processing e-mail with PHP
- Sending e-mails in PHP
- Anatomy of an e-mail
- Sending e-mail with attachments
What You Can Expect
- Describe the background, rationale and purpose of PHP and
MySQL
- Install Apache, PHP and MySQL
- Use the basic language constructs of PHP to develop effective
dynamic web pages
- Write Object-Oriented PHP
- Manage persistence with Sessions and Cookies
- Access and maintain files and directories
- Access and maintain databases through a device-independent
API
- Access and maintain a MySQL database
- Process XML and e-mails with PHP
Who Should Take This Course
This course is intended for web masters, web developers
and web support personnel wishing to use PHP to develop
highly effective dynamic web sites.
Recommended Prerequisites
Delegates should be competent programmers in another programming
language such as C, C++, C#, or a scripting language such
as Perl or JavaScript. They should also have working knowledge
of the Internet, building web pages with XHTML
Training Style
Highly practical, workshop based modular training class.
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Every student attending a Verhoef Training class will receive
a certificate good for $100 toward their next public class taken
within a year.
You can also buy "Verhoef Vouchers" to get a discounted rate for a
single student in any of our public or web-based classes.
Contact your account manager or our sales office for details.
