Web Development Fundamentals - PHP Training

• Delegates MUST have HTML and CSS skills equivalent to those provided by the Web Development Fundamentals – HTML and CSS course.
• Familiarity with programming would be beneficial, we recommend Programming Foundations to new developers.

Target Audience:

The course is aimed at anyone who wants to learn web development and perhaps progress into using PHP as a backend server scripting language. It is suitable for those who are relatively new to programming, or experienced developers skilled in other languages who need to learn the nuances of PHP.

• Have an understanding of the history of PHP
• Have a basic understanding of the roles of client-side and server-side scripting, HTML and CSS in web development
• Have a basic understanding of the technologies used in server-side scripting
• Understand PHP syntax and how to output to the screen
• Be able to use variables and operators
• Be aware of different types of error messages
• Be able to use different data structures in PHP including arrays and strings
• Be aware of pre-defined PHP functions and be able to use some of them
• Be able to write custom functions
• Understand the basic structure of HTTP requests and use PHP superglobals
• Have an awareness of PHP sessions and cookies

Programming for the Web

• DEMO: Web Site (the production of which is the goal of the course)
• A brief history of PHP
• Scripting, the PHP Interpreter and Web Programming (Client Side / Server Side)
• A basic introduction to HTML and CSS

PHP Variables and Operators

• PHP Syntax
• Outputting
• Variables and Types
• Operators
• Error Messages

PHP Flow of Control (including Conditionals and Loops)

• Conditionals and control flow
• If statement
• Switch statement
• Ternary and Short-Ternary statements
• While and do-while loops
• For loops

PHP Arrays

• Using the var_dump(), empty() and isset() functions
• Sequential arrays
• Associative arrays
• Looping with arrays

PHP Strings

• Strings as arrays
• Handling and formatting strings
• Comparing strings
• Using regular expressions in PHP
• Splitting strings

PHP Predefined Functions

• HTML Entity Codes
• HTML functions
• Array sorting, merging, splitting, iterating and transforming
• Filter functions

PHP Custom Functions

• Defining functions with arguments
• Calling functions with arguments
• Returning values from functions
• Other function features
• Closures and callbacks
• Variable scope

PHP Superglobals and HTTP

• The HTTP Protocol
• GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
• The Superglobals

PHP Cookies and Sessions

• HTTP is Stateless
• Cookies
• Sessions
• Authentication