PROGRAMMING Training
PHP Programming
Overview
The PHP Programming course is designed to give delegates the knowledge to develop/maintain PHP scripts.
Prerequisites
Familiarisation with programming concepts is useful, this knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the Concepts of Programming course.
Objectives
Knowledge of PHP to write, maintain and understand PHP scripts.
Outline
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: HISTORY OF PHP
- Installing PHP
- General Requirements
- UNIX based Systems
- Windows based Systems
- Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Session 2: 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
Session 3: PHP VARIABLES
- 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
- Variable Scoping
- Global Keyword
- Static Keyword
- Super Globals
- Constants
- Variable Variables
- Operators
- Assignment Operators
- Increment/Decrement Operators
- Arithmetic Operators
- String Operators
- Comparison Operators
- Logical Operators
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 4: CONTROL STRUCTURES
- Statement Blocks
- If Construct
- Else Keyword
- Elseif Keyword
- Looping Constructs
- While Loop
- Do-while Loop
- For Loop
- Foreach Loop
- Loop Control Words
- Break
- Continue
Session 5: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
- Meta-Characters
- Backslash
- Unicode Character Properties
- Circumflex and Dollar
- Full Stop
- Square Brackets
- Vertical Bar
- Multipliers
- Subpatterns
- Repetition
- Pattern Matching with ereg and eregi
- Pattern Matching with preg_match
- Splitting Text
- Switch
Session 6: PHP ARRAYS
- Syntax
- Creating/Modifying with Square-Bracket Syntax
- Array Functions
- Pitfalls when using Arrays
- Using a Return value as a Key
- Converting to Array
- Sorting an Array
- Multi-Dimensional Arrays
- Example
- Creating a new Multi-Dimensional Array
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 7: PHP FUNCTIONS
- Conditionally Created Functions
- Functions Created Inside Functions
- Argument Passing by Value
- Argument Passing by Reference
- Returning Values
- Including External PHP Functions
Session 8: PHP OBJECT ORIENTED
- Classes and Inheritance
- Classes
- Inheritance
- Keywords
Session 9: PHP & PEAR
- What is PEAR?
- Command Line Package Installer
- Fully-Automatic Installation
- Semi-Automatic Installation
- What is PECL?
Session 10: PHP & HTML
- HTML/PHP Examples