About This Course

This training course is designed to provide beginner programmers with a solid foundation in the PHP language, this course guides you through the basics of PHP with an experiential approach, filled with numerous examples and hands-on exercises, including substantial practice in coding parts of a fully functional application. Class exercises are designed to reinforce key language concepts.

Course Duration

60 Hrs.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the syntax and structural elements of PHP
• Know how to correctly apply the various control-flow structures
• Understand PHP data types, type-juggling, and operator precedence
• Organize code into reusable functions
• Accomplish tasks using PHP's wealth of built-in file system and array functions
• Understand essential elements of HTTP such as cookies and sessions
• Understand the basics of validating input and escaping output
• Build forms to collect information from a user
• Interact with a database using PHP's MySQL functions
• Create database-driven web applications similar to the course applications
• Leverage object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques in your applications
• Understanding the security features in PHP.

Course Outline

PHP Basics

Syntax, Operators, Variables, Control Structures, Language Constructs and Functions, Namespaces, Extensions, Config, Performance/bytecode caching .

Functions

Arguments, Variables, References, Returns, Variable Scope, Anonymous Functions, closures, Type Declarations

Object-oriented Programming

Instantiation, Modifiers/Inheritance, Interfaces, Return Types, Autoload, Reflection, Type Hinting, Class Constants, Late Static Binding, Magic (_*) Methods, Instance Methods & Properties, SPL, Traits

Security

Configuration, Session Security, Cross-Site Scripting, Cross-Site Request Forgeries, SQL Injection Remote Code Injection, Email Injection, Filter Input, Escape Output, Encryption, Hashing algorithms File uploads, PHP Configuration, Password hashing API

Databases & SQL

SQL, Joins, Prepared Statements, Transactions, PDO

Data Format & Types

XML Basics, SimpleXML, XML Extension, Webservices Basics, SOAP, JSON, DateTime , DOMDocument

Arrays

Associative Arrays, Array Iteration, Array Functions, SPL, Objects as arrays, Casting

Strings & Patterns

Quoting, Matching, Extracting, Searching, Replacing, Formatting, PCRE, NOWDOC, Encodings

Web Features

Sessions, Forms, GET and POST data, Cookies, HTTP Headers, HTTP Authentication, HTTP Status Codes 

I/O

Files, Reading, Writing, File System Functions, Streams, Contexts

Error Handling

Handling Exceptions, Errors, Throwables