PHP Programming Language

This hands-on PHP Programming course provides the knowledge necessary to design and develop dynamic, database-driven web pages using PHP version 5. PHP is a language written for the web, quick to learn, easy to deploy and provides substantial functionality required for e-commerce.

This course introduces the PHP framework and syntax, and covers in depth the most important techniques used to build dynamic web sites. Students learn how to connect to any ODBC-compliant database, and perform hands on practice with a MySQL database to create database-driven HTML forms and reports.

E-commerce skills including user authentication, data validation, dynamic data updates, and shopping cart implementation are covered in detail. Students also learn how to configure PHP and the Apache Web Server. Comprehensive hands on exercises are integrated throughout to reinforce learning and develop real competency.

You Will Learn:

• Creating and modifying a PHP page
• Working with variables and data types
• Using if/elseif/else statements to control processing conditionally
• Creating programs that include for, while, and do loops to process statements repeatedly
• Employing the break, continue, and exit statements to modify default loop behaviors
• Creating arrays
• How to manipulate strings in PHP using the built-in functions
• Maintaining state using cookies, session variables, hidden form fields and query strings
• The fundamental techniques necessary to create a shopping cart solution
• Using SQL to SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE data from tables
• Using the phpMyAdmin utility to administer the
• MySQL database
• Using PHP to manipulate files
• Identifying and handling the three main types of errors that can occur when programming with PHP