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Introduction to PHP for Web Development: Hands-On

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

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

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Upcoming Dates

Nov 10 - 11, 2008
 Ottawa
Dec 1 - 2, 2008
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jan 26 - 27, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 23 - 24, 2009
 New York
Mar 9 - 10, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
May 11 - 12, 2009
 Ottawa
Jun 1 - 2, 2009
 New York
Aug 3 - 4, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)

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Introduction to PHP for Web Development: Hands-On

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

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

Course Tuition
$ 1,800 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 900 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 1,620 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 1,414 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)

Special Course Promotions:

2 Semester Hours when taken with Course 520
 
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
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  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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