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Introduction to PHP for Web Development: Hands-On

 
Course: 519     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 2 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Write effective, efficient PHP scripts
  • Embed PHP scripts in HTML pages to create dynamic Web pages
  • Manipulate data from Web page forms
  • Track users as they navigate your site with cookies and other PHP features
  • Structure PHP code using user-defined functions and external libraries
  • Develop database-enabled Web applications using MySQL

Course Benefits
PHP is a scripting language used to create dynamic, complex and robust Web pages. It can seamlessly integrate with a wide range of database servers, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. In this introductory course, you gain a solid foundation for incorporating PHP techniques. Extensive hands-on exercises provide you with the skills to produce dynamic Web pages, retrieve and manipulate data, track user navigation, and integrate database content.

Who Should Attend
Those creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites. Basic experience with HTML is assumed. Programming or PHP experience is helpful but not required.

Hands-On Training
In this course, you develop PHP scripts to perform a variety of tasks, culminating in the development of a full database-driven Web page. Exercises include:
  • Accessing command line arguments from PHP scripts
  • Generating Web pages dynamically using PHP
  • Retrieving and manipulating form data
  • Personalizing Web site content using cookies
  • Tracking user navigation on your Web site
  • Integrating database content to generate dynamic Web pages
  • Building modular scripts to enable code reusability

Course 519 Content
Programming with PHP
Introduction to PHP
  • Origins of PHP in the open source community
  • Availability across multiple platforms
  • Installing as a module for Apache Web Server and Microsoft Internet Information Server
  • Running as a CGI engine for other Web servers
PHP language building blocks
  • Comparing PHP with other Web scripting languages
  • Investigating PHP data types
  • Integers
  • Floating point values
  • Strings
  • Booleans
Writing PHP scripts
  • Storing values in scalar variables
  • Employing ordinary and associative arrays
  • Writing conditional expressions
  • Implementing loops such as while, for and foreach
  • Building complete scripts incorporating loops and conditional expressions
Writing Web Pages with PHP
Interacting with the server
  • Outlining Web protocols
  • Embedding PHP code into HTML pages
  • Employing shortcuts to display single PHP values
  • Determining how data is sent from forms to PHP scripts
  • Creating dynamically-generated hyperlinks to call PHP scripts
Manipulating user input
  • Presenting the user with input options via different HTML form elements
  • Retrieving form data with $_POST and $_GET arrays
  • Validating retrieved data
  • Strategies for handling invalid input
  • Storing state information using cookies
Applying Advanced Scripting Techniques
Exploiting the built-in functionality of PHP
  • Formatting date and time information
  • Manipulating string data
  • Reading and writing data using file I/O functions
  • Investigating other built-in features
Structuring PHP code
  • Writing user-defined functions to structure your code
  • Passing arguments and default values to functions
  • Returning data from functions
  • Accessing global variables
  • Building code libraries for reusability
  • Incorporating external PHP scripts with require and require_once
Building Complete Web Applications
Managing errors
  • Investigating the HTTP header
  • Suppressing on-screen error messages on production servers
  • Configuring the php.ini file to control error messages
Handling problematic situations
  • Troubleshooting problems when manipulating data
  • Redirecting the browser to other pages
  • Modifying the PHP configuration file to suit your needs
  • Developing debugging strategies
Establishing database connectivity
  • Creating and managing database connections
  • Sending queries to the database server employing the most efficient methods
  • Retrieving query results as associative arrays
  • Looping through databases
  • Displaying returned data on Web pages
  • Avoiding potential problems by managing quotes and backslashes in data
  • Closing the database connection
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Introduction to PHP for Web Development: Hands-On
Classroom Dates
Jul 6-7: Washington, DC
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$ 1,800 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,667 Training Passport
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$ 2,170 Triple-Pack
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 1,620 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 1,414 Government Discount
 

 

Introduction to PHP for Web Development: Hands-On
Introduction to PHP for Web Development: Hands-On
Participants developing dynamic Web sites using PHP.
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