PHP Fundamentals

PHP is undoubtedly one of the most popular and fastest growing server side scripting languages around. This course is designed to enable web developers and others with limited programming experience to build dynamic web sites using the PHP programming language.

Target Audience:

Web developers and web designers with a modest amount of programming experience who now need to develop more complex web based applications using server side scripting languages. Students will typically have used another simple or domain-specific language such as VBscript or JavaScript.

Recommended Prerequisites:

If you have experience with HTML and perhaps a little scripting/programming experience this course is ideal for you. Previous attendance of our "HTML Fundamentals" and "JavaScript Fundamentals" courses will be a distinct advantage.

Course Objectives:

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Describe of the fundamentals of PHP programming, including statements, variables, conditionals, loops, control structures, and functions

• Use PHP to build pages that dynamically respond immediately to the user's actions

• Develop practical applications with PHP such as simple shopping carts, forms that dynamically update content based on user input, and other simple disk file operations

   

Key Topics:

• What is PHP ?

• Standard Programming Constructs in PHP

• Variables, Operators and Expressions

• Conditional Testing and Looping

• Built-in PHP Functions

• User Defined PHP Functions

• Working with arrays in PHP

• File handles and file tests

• PHP for HTML Forms and Cookies

• Efficiency and Debugging in PHP

• Web Application Development with PHP