PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Course Overview The PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development course is designed to give delegates the knowledge to develop/maintain PHP scripts utilizing the MariaDB database system and HTML.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Course content:
PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course Course Contents – DAY 1 Course Introduction • Administration and Course Materials • Course Structure and Agenda • Delegate and Trainer Introductions Session 1: PHP LANGUAGE BASICS • Programming Basics • Comment markers • PHP Tags • Output Commands • Using STDIN STDOUT and STDERR • Using Files • Include_path • Opening files • Reading files • Writing to Files • RTRIM • Operators • Assignment Operators • Increment/Decrement Operators • Arithmetic Operators • String Operators • Comparison Operators • Logical Operators Session 2: PHP VARIABLES AND ARRAYS • Naming Rules • Data Types • Numerical • Integer • Floating Point Numbers • Floating Point Precision • Single Quoted Strings • Double Quoted Strings • Creating and Assigning Variables • Assigning Values to Variables • Type Conversion • Super Globals • Constants • Variable Variables • Creating/modifying indexed and associative arrays • Multi-Dimensional arrays • Using array functions • Sorting an array PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course Course Contents – DAY 2 Session 3: CONTROL STRUCTURES • Statement Blocks • If Construct • Else Keyword • Elseif Keyword • Switch • Looping Constructs • While Loop • Do-while Loop • For Loop • Foreach Loop • Loop Control Words • Break • Continue Session 4: PHP FUNCTIONS • Overview • Variable Scoping • Global Keyword • Static Keyword • Argument Passing by Value • Argument Passing by Reference • Returning Values • Including External PHP Functions • Conditionally Created Functions • Functions Created Inside Functions Session 5: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS • Meta-Characters • Sequences • Sets • Pattern Matching with ereg and eregi • Pattern Matching with preg_match • Splitting Text – preg_split • Replacing Text – preg_replace PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course Course Contents – DAY 3 Session 6: PHP OBJECT ORIENTED • PHP Object Orientated Concepts • Creating Classes and Objects • Constructor and Destructor functions • Inheritance • Access Modifiers Session 7: PHP & PEAR • What is PEAR? • Command Line Package Installer • Fully-Automatic Installation • Semi-Automatic Installation • What is PECL? Session 8: PHP & HTML • HTML/PHP Examples PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course Course Contents – DAY 4 Session 9: PHP CONFIGURATION • Working with External Files • Error Reporting • Interacting with External Programs Session 10: BASIC SQL STATEMENTS • Creating Databases and Tables • Inserting Data into Tables • Viewing Tables • UPDATE • Drop Session 11: CONNECTING TO MariaDB/MySQL • mysqli_connect • mysqli_error • Die Session 12: USING PHP TO PERFORM DATABASE FUNCTIONS • Inserting Data into a Database • Creating Queries • Executing Queries • Processing the Returned Query Data • Updating the Database PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course Course Contents – DAY 5 Session 13: GENERATING HTML USING PHP • PHP Inside HTML • HTML Form with Embedded PHP • Multiple HTML Pages/Forms with PHP Session 14: EMAIL AND COOKIES USING PHP • Generating Email using PHP • Generating Cookies using PHP • Using Cookies Session 15: PHP AND DATABASE SECURITY • Designing Databases • Connecting to Database • Encrypted Storage Model • SQL Injection • Security Techniques • Error Reporting • User Submitted Data
Course objectives:
Course Objectives On completion of the PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development course the delegate will have a good practical knowledge of how to write successful HTML/PHP code utilising a MariaDB database.
Target audience:
Who will the Course Benefit? UNIX and Windows Users,Web Developers and Programmers wishing to create web based systems utilising PHP and MariaDB.
Prerequisites:
Requirements Delegates attending this course should have some previous programming experience and be able to define general programming concepts including: compilation,execution,variables,arrays,sequence,selection,iteration,functions,objects,and classes. Moreover delegates should be able to navigate the filesystem (on the command line ideally),edit and save text files and browse the web. This knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the pre-requisite Introduction to Programming course.