PHP: Mastering

About this class

This course is aimed at delegates who have no previous PHP programming experience and wish to take advantage of this fully developed, server-side embedded scripting language to develop web applications.

Who will the lesson benefit?

Delegates should have HTML experience to level of the Web Authoring course and should have previous programming experience in Perl or Javascript. Perl and Javascript prerequisites can be met by attending the Javascript Programming or Perl/CGI Introduction courses.

Contents of this class

The Basics of PHP

• Beginning Your Exploration of PHP
• Variables
• Operators and Expressions
• Flow Control and Functions
• Strings and Arrays

Programming Principles and PHP

• Object-Oriented Programming
• Debugging and Errors

Letting the Data Flow

• SQL and Database Interaction
• Forms and User Interaction
• Data Validation
• Sessions
• Security
• Files and Networking

How PHP Is Connected

• Web Application Development
• XML and XHTML
• LDAP

Using PHP in the Real World

• PDF
• Generating Graphics
• E-Mail