Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is a cross-platform scripting language that is particularly well-suited for web development. In this course, you'll get an introduction to the fundamentals of the PHP language. You'll learn to set up PHP on a server and continue through most of the common server-side functionality incorporated in modern web sites. The course uses a MySQL database and includes a demonstration of how to use PHP to work with other databases as well. You will also get an introduction to the advanced aspects of the PHP language and how to best utilize PHP 5's object-oriented capabilities, and you'll cover some Unified Modeling Language (UML) and design patterns.

What You'll Learn

• Set up PHP and a MySQL database
• Understand and write syntactically correct PHP
• Create pages that respond to form submissions
• Maintain state with cookies and sessions
• Automatically generate e-mails
• Read and write files on the server
• Connect to a database
• Search for and display records from a database
• Insert, modify, and delete records from a database through web forms
• Validate user input with regular expressions
• Create modular, reusable code by writing user-defined functions
• Introduction to object-oriented programming
• UML
• Putting objects to work
• Design patterns
• Collection class
• CollectionIterator class
• GenericObject class
• Database abstraction layers
• Factory interface
• Event-driven programming
• Logging and debugging
• SOAP
• Model, View, Controller (MVC)
• Communicating with users
• Sessions and authentication
• Unit testing framework
• Finite state machine and custom configuration files
• Designing and developing a robust reporting platform
  

Who Needs to Attend

Web Developers who are seeking to enhance their Server Side capabilities with PHP 5.

Prerequisites

• Web Fundamentals and Design

Follow-On Courses

• Introduction to JavaScript: DOM Scripting
• XML Developer

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. E-Mail 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

16. Object-Oriented Software Development

• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Putting Objects to Work
• Design Patterns

17. Creating a Reusable Object Toolkit I-Simple Classes and Interfaces

• Collection ClassCollectionIterator Class
• GenericObject Class
• Database Abstraction Layers
• Factory Interface
• Event Driven Programming
• Logging and Debugging
• SOAP

18. Creating A Reusable Object Toolkit II-Complex (Though Not Complicated) Utilities

• Model, View, Controller (MVC)
• Communicating with Users
• Sessions and Authentication
• Unit Testing Framework
• Finite State Machine and Custom Configuration Files

19. Test Case: Sales Force Automation

• Project Overview
• Project Management Methodologies
• Planning the System
• Systems Architecture
• Assembling the Sales Force Automation Toolkit
• Quality Assurance
• Deployment
• Designing and Developing a Robust Reporting Platform
• Where Do We Go From Here?

Exercises

Exercise 1: Adding a Greeting and Date and Time Stamps to a Page

Exercise 2: Personalizing the Homepage for WLDC

Exercise 3: Enhance the WLDC Home Page With Cookies

Exercise 4: Building a Shopping Cart for WLDC

Exercise 5: Implementing CDONTS E-Mail at WLDC

Exercise 6: Storing Registrations in a Tab-Delimited Text File

Exercise 7: Building a Search Engine Interface

Exercise 8: Enhancing the Search Form

Exercise 9: Enhance the Registration Form to Insert a New Client

Exercise 10: Building an Interface for Updating Client Records

Exercise 11: Using Functions to Validate Form Submissions

Exercise 12: Validating Form Data with Regular Expressions

Exercise 13: Drilling Down Client Data