PHP Introduction
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Overview
Course Outline
Introduction
- What is PHP? What can it do?
- Advantages of PHP
- How it works
- Necessary Setup
- Installing PHP
- Installing MySQL
PHP Syntax
- How to Save Your PHP Pages
- Creating a simple HTML & PHP Page
- The Semicolon
- White Space
PHP Variables
- A Simple Variable Example
- Variable Naming Conventions
- The Echo Function
- Outputting a String
- Echoing Quotes
- Echoing Variables
PHP Strings
- String Creation
- Using Single and Double Quotes
- Concatenation
PHP Operators
- Assignment Operators
- Arithmetic Operators
- Comparison Operators
- String Operators
- Combination Arithmetic & Assignment Operators
- Increment & Decrement
Using Comments in PHP
- Comment Syntax
- Single Line Comments
- Multiple Line Comments
- Good Commenting Practices
Server-Side Includes
- The Include Function
- Using the Include Function
- PHP Require Function
- Require vs Include
Conditional Statements
- The If Statement
- If/Else Conditional Statment
- Elseif
- PHP Switch Statement
- Switch Statement: Default Case
Using PHP With HTML Forms
- Creating the HTML Form
- PHP Form Processor
PHP Arrays
- A Numerically Indexed Array
- Associative Arrays
Looping in PHP
- While Loop
- For Loop
- For Each Loop
- Do While Loop
Using PHP with a database
- Connecting to a database
- Querying a database
- Displaying error messages
Introduction to SQL
- What is SQL?
- Using SELECT
- Using INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE
- Filtering search results
Using PHP with SQL
- Displaying data on the page
- Using loops to access all data
- Inserting, deleting and updating a record
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SEE COURSESUseful Links
- Official PHP developers’ page – All about PHP, a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development
- PHP tutorials from W3 Schools – One of the most well known tutorial sites
- Wikipedia page for PHP – History and capabilities of PHP
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