PHP AND MYSQL DEVELOPMENT
Course Outline:
I.
PHP Overview
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What is PHP?
History of PHP?
PHP 5 features?
Why choose PHP?
 Speed of Development
 Open Source
 Performance
 Portability
II. Installing PHP
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Overview
Platforms, Servers, Databases, PHP
Where to find PHP
Installing PHP
 WAMP
 Configuring Apache
 php.ini
 short_open_tag
 Error Reporting Directives
 Variable Directives
III. First Script
 Overview
 First Script
 Beginning and Ending Block
 The print() function
 Combining HTML and PHP
 Adding Comments to PHP
IV. PHP Building Blocks
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Overview
Variable
Dynamic Variable
References to Variables
Data Type
Operators and Expressions
Constants
V. Conditionals and PHP Flows
 Switching Flow
 if Statement
 Using the else Clause
 Using the else if Clause
 The switch Statement
 Using the? Operator
 Loops
 The while statement
 The do…while statement
 The for statement
 Breaking out of Loops with the Break Statement
 Skipping an Iteration with the continue Statement
 Nesting Loops
VI. Functions
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What is a function?
Calling functions
Defining a function
Returning Values from a function
Dynamic function calls
Variable Scope
 Accessing variables with the global statement
 Saving state Between Function Calls with the Static Statement
 More about Arguments
VII. Arrays
 What is an array?
 Creating Arrays
 Defining arrays with the array() function
 Defining or adding to arrays with the array identifier
 Associative Arrays
 Defining arrays with the array() function
 Defining or adding to arrays with the array identifier
 Multidimensional Arrays
 Accessing Arrays
 Getting the size
 Looping through an array
 Looping through an associative array
 Manipulating Arrays
 array merge()
 array push()
 array shift()
 array slice()
 Sorting Arrays
 sort()
 asort()
 ksort()
VIII. Objects
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What is an object?
Creating an object
Object Properties
Object Methods
Inheritance
IX. Working With Forms
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Global and environment variables
Accessing input from multiple SELECT statements
Accessing all the fields from a Form from an Associative Array
Distinguishing between GET and POST Transactions
Combining HTML and PHP code on a Single Page
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Using hidden fields to Save State
Redirecting the user
File upload forms and scripts
X. Working with Files
 Including Files with include()
 Testing Files
 file_exists()
 File or Directory
 Checking Status of a File
 filesize()
 Getting Date information
 Creating and Deleting Files
 Opening a File for Reading, Writing or Appending
 Reading from Files
 fgets() and feof()
 fread()
 fgetc()
 Writing or Appending to a File
 fwrite() or fputs()
 flock()
 Working with Directories
 mkdir()
 rmdir()
 opendir()
 readdir()
XI. Beyond the Box
 Environmental Variables
 HTTP Client/Server Negotiation
 The Request
 The Response
 Getting a Document from a Remote Address
 Converting IP Addresses and Hostnames
 Making a Network Connection
 Making an NNTP Connection using fsockopen()
 Sending email with the mail() Function
XII. Working with Images
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Creating and Outputting Images
Acquiring Color
Drawing Lines
Applying Color Fills
Drawing an Arc
Drawing a Rectangle
Drawing a Polygon
Making a Color Transparent
Working with Text
 Writing a String with imageTTFtext()
 Testing Text Dimensions with imageTTFbox()
 Bringing it Together
XII. Working With Dates
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Getting the Date with time()
Converting a timestamp with getdate()
Converting a timestamp with date()
Creating Time stamps with mktime()
 Testing a Date with checkdate()
 Example Usage
XIII. Working with Data
 Data Types Revisited
 Testing for Absence and Emptiness
 Custom Sorting arrays
XIV .Working with Strings
 Formatting Strings
 Investigating Strings
 Manipulating Strings
XV. Regular Expressions
 POSIX Regular Expressions
 Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
XVI. Cookies
 Setting a Cookie
 Deleting a Cookie
XVII .Sessions
 Starting a Session
 Destroying Sessions
XVIII. Database Integration – MySQLi
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Connecting to the Database
Finding About Errors
Adding Data to a Table
Acquiring the Value of an Automatically Incremented Field
Accessing Information
Changing Data
Getting Information About Databases
Getting it All Together
XIX. Lab – putting all together