PHP Programming Course Overview The PHP Programming course is designed to give delegates the knowledge to develop/maintain PHP scripts. Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Course content:
PHP Programming 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 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 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
Course objectives:
Course Objectives Knowledge of PHP to write,maintain and understand PHP scripts.
Target audience:
Who will the Course Benefit? Programmers who need to write or maintain scripts in PHP.
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.