PHP Training Course

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