| Duration | Two Days |
| Public scheduled course | £450 plus VAT |
| Individual tuition | £990 plus VAT |
The cost of this course includes six months telephone Helpline support, course notes, lunch and a certificate |
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| 20-09 to 21-09 | Highbury | Book course |
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PHP: Introduction
Course Overview
PHP applications are popular, easy to code and can run on any server or operating system. PHP can be integrated directly within your HTML code and allows information to be accessed from any data source. This two day intensive course will introduce you to the fundamentals of PHP and show you how to build complete applications that include the use of cookies and sessions, creating functions and arrays to use in PHP code, sending email and processing forms using PHP.
This is a comprehensive and practical introduction to PHP. If you would like to tailor the following course outline to your exact requirements please give us a call or email.
Course content
DAY ONE
Introduction
• PHP and how it works
• Server-side technology structures
• Your first PHP page
• PHP structure
Variables and identifiers
• Working with Identifiers
• Variables, String, Number
• Math operators
• Using constants
• String functions
• Shorthand operators
• Using Expressions
• Using variables and variable scope
Conditional structures
• Control structures
• Logic and relational operators
• Using 'If', 'Else if' and 'Else'
• Switch operator
• Comparison operators
• Conditional operators
Loops
• Using the While loop
• Break statements
• Continue statements
• Using 'do...while', 'for', 'foreach'
Functions
• Creating your own functions
• Calling a function
• Using arguments
• Return statements and static statements
• Scope of variables
• Optional arguments
• Dynamic, built-in and data functions
Questions and answers
DAY TWO
Arrays
• Array assignments
• Array functions
Form validation
• Validating mandatory information
• User friendly validation techniques
• Using the setcookie function
• Data functions
• String functions
Advanced forms
• Working with drop down menus
• Checkboxes and radio buttons
• Comparison functions
• Using Strcmp()
• Using Strcasesmp()
HTTP
• HTTP basics
• Headers
• Environment variables
Utilising Cookies
• When to use cookies
• Setting cookies
• Reading cookies
• Deleting cookies
Session variables
• Setting sessions
• Storing session variables
• Reading sessions
• Deleting sessions
Email function
• Creating auto-responder
• Using email to accept simple on-line orders
Built in functions
• Include()
• Require()
• Include_once()
• Require_once()
Overview of MySQL
Overview of PHP and XML
Questions and answers