PHP Training Course

About the course:

Our PHP training course is designed to get you up to speed developing data-driven web applications using PHP and MySQL from scratch, through useful and relevant hands-on exercises which reflect real-world scenarios.

This course focuses on PHP language and syntax, working with dynamic data from and to MySQL.

PHP is a mature scripting language that you can find in use on many major commercial web sites - platforms such as Wordpress and Magento.

There are numerous associated frameworks and platforms designed to speed up the process of developing and deploying PHP web apps, such as Laravel and Zend

In a nutshell Who should attend On-site Course syllabus

By the end of this course, you will have learnt:

PHP Language and Syntax Fundamentals
Setting up your development environment
How to serve up PHP pages
Regular expressions and text handling
Database connecitivity
PHP Flow Control
Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in PHP
Error Handling & Debugging

Who should attend

Web Developers and Programmers who want to be able to hand-code data-driven web applications using PHP 5.x.

Prerequisites

Experience of writing markup such as HTML and/or XML, and ideally some experience of programming in a scripting language such as JavaScript. Object-Oriented Programming experience would be useful but is not mandatory.

On-site

If you would like to discuss custom / on-site PHP training for any size of team, please get in touch – we would be glad to help build a course that meets your learning requirements.

We can take into account your existing technical skills, project requirements and timeframes, and specific topics of interest to tailor the most relevant and focussed course for you.

This can be particularly useful if you need to learn just the new features and PHP programming Best Practices, or need to include extra topics to help with pre-requisite skills.

Introduction to PHP

PHP Architecture and what you can do with it
Getting ready to to develop
Hands-on installing PHP, Nginx & MySQL using Vagrant
The built in PHP test web server
Popular code editors

PHP Language and Syntax fundamentals

Language conventions
Variables & Data Types
Constants
Standards: The PSRs

Data-driven functionality

Superglobals
HTTP Request / Response cycle
Forms and User Input
Control Structures
- If, Else, If-Else
- While, Do-while
- For
Creating Functions
Using Parameters
Closures

"Hello World" in PHP

Built-in functions

Strings & Strings Manipulations
Arrays
Iterating
Array Indexing
Array Content

Introduction to Object Oriented programming in PHP

Reusability of code
Overview of Objects & Classes
Namespaces
Encapsulation
Inheritance
Autoloading
Closures in an OO context

Connecting to Databases

Data Source Names (DSN)
PHP Data Objects (PDO)
SQL querying with PDO
Sanitizing data and binding parameters
Displaying the results
Exiting gracefully

PHP Exception Handling

Creating a custom exception handler
Terminating Statements
Reporting

Sessions, Cookies and Authentication

Authenticating against a database
Password hashing and security
Working with sessions
Persisting authentication with Cookies

Components and Packages

Introduction to Composer
Importing packages from Packagist
Composer autoloading

Development best practices & approaches

MVC
Security
Dependency Injection
HTTP abstraction
Templating

Working with web services

Encoding and decoding JSON
Making HTTP requests
AJAX

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PHP Training Course

Course overview

Tailor this course for your business

About the course:

By the end of this course, you will have learnt:

Who should attend

Prerequisites

On-site

Introduction to PHP

PHP Language and Syntax fundamentals

Data-driven functionality

"Hello World" in PHP

Built-in functions

Introduction to Object Oriented programming in PHP

Connecting to Databases

PHP Exception Handling

Sessions, Cookies and Authentication

Components and Packages

Working with web services

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PHP Training Course

Course overview

Tailor this course for your business

About the course:

By the end of this course, you will have learnt:

Who should attend

Prerequisites

On-site

Introduction to PHP

PHP Language and Syntax fundamentals

Data-driven functionality

"Hello World" in PHP

Built-in functions

Introduction to Object Oriented programming in PHP

Connecting to Databases

PHP Exception Handling

Sessions, Cookies and Authentication

Components and Packages

Working with web services

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