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Overview
PHP is one of the most popular server-side languages, and plays a huge role in web development. This introductory course can help you learn to use PHP to produce your own dynamic, interactive websites.
Designed for beginners, no prior experience or special skills are required to take this course. You will learn the basics of PHP for web development through hands-on application and examples every step of the way. By the end of the course, you will have built a fully functional math flashcard app and templated out a website to demonstrate your practical knowledge.
Highlights:
- 39 practical tutorials.
- Understand the fundamentals of how PHP works and the client/server relationship.
- How to set up your development environment.
- Back up your code and set up version control with Github.
- Learn the different data types for PHP, including string, integer, float, and boolean.
- How to use arithmetic, assignment, comparison, increment, logic and string operators.
- Use if/else/elseif statements to test against conditions.
- Understand basic arrays and how to sort arrays the quick and easy way.
- How to process HTML Forms with GET vs POST.
- Create and issue cookies to your website visitors.
- Pass information between pages with Sessions.
- Put together everything you've learned by building a math flashcard app and templating out a website.
Once enrolled, our friendly support team and tutors are here to help with any course related inquiries.
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Summary
Skill level
Beginner
Certificate
Lessons
40
Accredited by
CPD
Pre-requisites
None
Video duration
2h 40m
Estimated study time
20h for all materials
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Syllabus
Introduction - Setting Up a Development Environment
Course Introduction
What to expect from this course.How Does PHP Work?
Understanding the Fundamentals of PHP and the client/server relationship.Setting up a Local Development Environment with XAMPP
How to code PHP on your local computer.
Sublime Text Editor Development Tool
Download and install Sublime Text, and create your development environment.
Version Control with Git
Setting up Version Control in our cloud development environment.
Using Github.com to Backup our Code
How to backup your code and version control with Github.com
Using Heroku for Production
Set up a free Heroku.com account to push production code.
PHP Programming Basics
Variables
Understanding Variables in PHP.Data Types
Learn the different data types for PHP, including String, Integer, Float, and Boolean.Arithmetic Operators
Learn how to do math in PHP.Assignment Operators
How to assign things in PHP.Comparison Operators
Comparing two or more things is easy with comparison operators.Increment Operators
Sometimes you can't bother with math - use increment operators instead.Logic Operators
Logic sits at the core of all computer programming. Understanding logic operators in PHP.String Operators
Understanding concatenation and concatenating assignment operators.Conditional Statements
Learn how to use if/else/elseif statements to test against conditions.Switch
How to switch between different cases.While Loops
How to use the While loop.
For Loops
How to use For Loops.
Let's Build FizzBuzz!
FizzBuzz! is a popular interview quiz question. Let's build it!Arrays
Understanding basic Arrays.Sorting Arrays
Learn how to Sort Arrays the quick and easy way.Functions
How to create and use functions in PHP.Random Numbers and Dates
Automatically generate random numbers and dates.String Manipulation
Fun with string manipulation!Include Function
How to include things from other files in your PHP program.Require Function
Similar to "Include", but used for a slightly different reason.
Form Handling - GET vs POST
How to process HTML Forms with PHP.Superglobals
What are Superglobals, and how do you use them?Cookies
Creating and issuing Cookies to your website visitors.Sessions
Passing information between pages with Sessions.Building a Math Flashcard App
Flashcard App Introduction and Setup
Let's build a cool math flashcard app!Creating the Index Page and Form
Let's create the main skeleton of our Flashcard App.
Making the Form Work
Let's build out the form to make it work.
Right and Wrong Logic
Let's write some code to determine if the answer is right or wrong.
Build out the Other Math Pages
Addition works, now let's build pages for Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division.
Templating Out a Website
Understanding the Templating Concept
Understanding how Wordpress uses Templates and how we can do the same thing.
Templating Links and Headers
Let's build out a template for our Header and links.
Templating with Require
How to use Require to template things.
Finishing Up
Let's do a few odds and ends to finish up.
