PHP - Basics

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Course Overview


The Introduction to PHP training module examines the core concepts and technologies required to build a basic dynamic website using PHP. The Introduction to PHP course begins by examining how to setup and configure Apache to support PHP and then moves on to explore the language fundamentals of PHP. PHP course concludes with a discussion about form-driven websites, state management, and overall site design.

Course Content


Introduction to PHP

  • What is PHP?
  • PHP Language Overview
  • PHP Open Source Technology
  • PHP for Web Applications

PHP Fundamentals

  • PHP.ini Configuration File
  • Basic Syntax
  • PHP Tags
  • Comments
  • Running PHP program - Hello World

Variables, Datatypes, Operators

  • Data Types
  • Variable Names (Identifiers)
  • Variable Scope
  • Variable Manipulation
  • Dynamic Variables
  • Constants
  • Operators
  • Escaping Special Characters
  • Changing datatype with settype

String Manipulation

  • String Variables in PHP
  • The Concatenation Operator
  • strlen() function
  • strpos() function
  • Joining and splitting String
  • Comparing Strings
  • Upper/Lower Case, Sub Strings, Replacement
  • String Formatting with printf

Conditional Statements and Loops

  • If Statement
  • Switch Statement
  • Loops
  • For Loop
  • While Loop
  • Foreach Loop
  • Loop Control (break and continue)
  • Nested Loops

Super Globals

  • $_GET
  • $_POST
  • $_REQUEST
  • $_FILES
  • $_SESSION
  • $_COOKIES
  • $_SERVER
  • $_ENV

Arrays

  • What Are Arrays (definition)
  • Types of Arrays
  • Creating Arrays
  • Accessing Arrays
  • Single-Dimensional Arrays
  • Multidimensional Arrays
  • Casting Arrays
  • Associative arrays
  • Accessing arrays
  • Getting the size of an array
  • Looping through an array
  • Looping through an associative array
  • Examining arrays
  • Joining arrays
  • Sorting arrays
  • Sorting an associative array

Functions

  • What is a function?
  • Defining a function
  • Returning value from function
  • User-defined functions
  • Dynamic function calls
  • Variable scope
  • Accessing variable with the global statement
  • Function calls with the static statement
  • Setting default values for arguments
  • Passing arguments to a function by value
  • Passing arguments to a function by reference
  • Testing for function existence
  • Inbuilt Functions
  • Anonymous Functions

Form Processing

  • Designing a Form
  • HTML Forms (check boxes, text fields, radio buttons)
  • Retrieving Form Data
  • The GET and POST method
  • Submitting to Itself
  • $_GET and $_POST

MySQL Database

  • What is Database?
  • RDBMS Terminology
    • Database
    • Table
    • Column
    • Row
    • Redundancy
    • Primary Key
    • Foreign Key
    • Compound Key
    • Index
    • Referential Integrity
  • Understanding MySQL database
  • Downloading MySQL
  • Installing MySQL on Linux
  • Installing MySQL on Windows
  • Verifying MySQL installation
  • Executing simple commands
  • Running and shutting down MySQL server
  • Setting up user account
  • Administrative MySQL commands
    • use
    • show databases
    • show tables
    • show columns from
    • show index from
    • show table status like tablename
  • Database Engines
  • MySQL data types
    • Numeric Data Types
    • String Data Types
    • Date and Time Data Types
    • Spatial Data Types
  • Creating tables using CREATE TABLE Statement
  • Changing table structure using ALTER TABLE Statement
  • Removing table using DROP TABLE Statement
  • Indexes
    • What are indexes
    • Creating Index
    • Removing Index
  • Using SELECT statement to query data
    • SELECT syntax
    • Filtering rows using WHERE clause
    • Sorting Result Set using ORDER BY clause
    • Use of GROUP BY clause for grouping data
    • Use of DISTINCT to eliminate duplicate rows
    • DISTINCT with multiple columns
    • DISTINCT and NULL values
    • DISTINCT vs GROUP BY
    • DISTINCT and COUNT AGGREGATE
  • Working with PHPMyAdmin

PHP and MySQL

  • Connecting to the MYSQL
  • Selecting a database
  • Finding out about errors
  • Adding data to a table
  • Acquiring the value
  • Finding the number of rows
  • Inserting data
  • Entering and updating data
  • Executing multiple queries.

Customer Reviews


Thanks to Xpertised and the tutor who walked me through all the topics with Practical exposure which is helping me in my current project.
-Waseem

Course was quite helpful in terms of understanding of concepts and practicality. Its really a very friendly environment to learn. The timing were mutually chosen, as we both are working professional. I am quite satisfied with the course.
-Tanmoy

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