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This course showcases the popular and powerful scripting language forbuilding database-driven web sites. Introduction to PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)teaches you the necessary skills to immediately exploit PHP on your Internet orintranet web site.

Highlights

• Understand PHP commands and program structure
• Use PHP to process HTML forms
• Master regular expressions for form validation and other applications
• Read and write files with PHP
• Build database-driven applications

Course Outline

1. Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP): A Web Server-Side Technology

• Client-Side vs. Server-Side Web Technologies
• The Web's Client-Server Relationship
• Which Web Servers Support PHP?

2. Writing PHP Pages

• PHP Code In An HTML Context
• PHP Statements
• Enclosing Scripting Code within your PHP Pages
• Strings in PHP
• Developing PHPs in This Class
• An Example: "Hello World"
• Conditional Constructs with "if"
• Comparison Operators in PHP
• The Logical AND (&&) and OR (||)

3. Processing Data from Online Forms

• The <FORM> Tag and Its Attributes
• Scalar Variables in PHP
• Demonstration: Displaying a Customized Greeting
• Combining the Form and Its Processing Code In One PHP File

4. Working with Cookies

• Setting a Cookie
• Retrieving a Cookie
• Example: Setting, Retrieving, and Expiring a Cookie

5. Maintaining State with Sessions

• Sessions
• Storing and Retrieving Session Values
• Example: Using the Session Object to Track a Shopping Cart

6. Email with PHP

• Sending E mail PHP

7. Writing To A Text File

• Example: Writing to a Tab-Delimited File
• Example: Reading from a tab-delimited text file

8. Loop Structures

• For Loops
• Foreach Loops
• While Loops

9. Database Integration with PHP

• The Databases Used in this Class
• Issuing Database Commands with SQL
• Example: Selecting and Viewing Data From guestbook.mdb
• Connecting and Issuing Commands to the Database
• Displaying Database Results

10. Working with Meta Information from a Database

• Object-Oriented PHP
• Development Strategy Session: Building an Interface for Updating Client Records

11. User-Defined Functions in PHP

• Functions

12. Regular Expressions

• Character Types and Ranges
• Quantity Indicators
• Location Indicators
• Regular Expressions in PHP

13. Drilling Down and the Query String

• Building the Query String into a Link
• Generating Drill Down Links Dynamically

14. Installing PHP

15. Installing MySQL

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