PHP Training

Hunter Systems  provide either bespoke or formal PHP training courses.  The PHP Training course can either be conducted on your premises or at our dedicated training centre. When attending our PHP training courses you will be provided with a training manual, buffet lunch and a completion certificate at the end of the course. All our courses are fully interactive and each course tutor is a fully qualified.

PHP is a scripting language designed for building dynamic websites. It integrates easily with the popular MySQL database. it gives  web developers the ability to write dynamically generated pages quickly and efficiently.

Build Dynamic E-Commerce Websites

This  two day PHP course is designed for programmers who want to build dynamic e-commerce web sites using the PHP programming language. Since PHP is such a rich and task-specific language, the course covers the most important range of functions and equips delegates to understand the remaining less essential aspects.
Software developers with no PHP experience and possibly no web programming experience. Students must, however, have strong foundation in general programming.

Prerequisites

  • A basic working knowledge of HTML is presumed.
  • Some conceptual knowledge of how web servers and web browsers (clients) interact using HTTP
  • Good working knowledge of at least one programming language

Delegates are expected to have a basic understanding of accounts and a basic knowledge of working in a windows environment. Manuals that cover the day's topics will be provided to each delegate. Delegates are also encouraged to bring their own questions list for troubleshooting

PHP Training Course Part1(I Day)

PHP Training Course Part 2(I Day)

Introduction to PHP

  • History of PHP
  • Comparison with dynamic content alternatives (Perl, CGI, ASP, JSP, Servlets , CGI, etc)
  • PHP tools and set up (web browser/server, editor, libraries, etc)
  • Create a basic PHP Script
  • Taking user input
  • Self Referring Forms
  • Selecting alternatives
  • Use PHP to generate HTTP headers
  • Pass PHP variables via the URL
  • Debugging Tips

User Input from Forms via PHP

  • Creating forms with PHP
  • Security Protection from Cross Site Scripting
  • Using the form GET method
  • Using the form POST method
  • Obtaining data from forms through variables
  • Using hidden fields
  • Secure Web Forms
  • Calling pages from themselves using forms
  • Quoting HTML entities in user input

PHP Operators

  • Arithmetic Operators
  • Logical Operators
  • Relational Operators
  • The Identity Operator
  • Bitwise Operators
  • Other Operators
  • Assignment Operators
  • Operator Precedence and Associativity

Conditional Tests and Events in PHP

  • True and False
  • If
  • Comparing Strings and Numbers
  • else and elseif
  • The switch / case statement
  • The ? : Operator
  • Comparing for equality or identity

PHP Flow Control

  • Loops
  • while
  • do ... while
  • for
  • break and continue
  • exit

PHP Configuration

  • The php.ini file
  • Module Vs CGI Usage
  • register_globals
  • Commonly set configurations
  • PHP 4.1 and above
  • PHP4 compatibility in PHP5
  • A glance at upcoming PHP6

PHP Functions

  • Purpose of functions
  • Built-in functions
  • Declaring functions
  • Functions Arguments
  • Arguments - Call by Reference
  • Default Arguments
  • Return
  • Returning References
  • Variable Scope (global vs local)
  • Static variables
  • Recursion
  • include and require
  • Variable function calls

Handling Email with PHP

  • Sending email
  • Unix and NT setup
  • mail function

Graphics in PHP

  • Graphics basics
  • Image MIME type
  • Basic examples
  • Creation from an existing image
  • Image copying and resizing
  • Drawing text on images
  • True Type fonts

String Manipulation in PHP

  • substring and [] operators
  • Case conversion, trimming
  • Formatting output data
  • Regular expressions

Handling Databases with PHP

  • PHP's database APIs
  • Error-handling strategies
  • Connection/disconnection, log in/log out
  • Escaping strings in SQL statements
  • Including common access functions
  • Doing simple SQL queries via PHP
  • Building HTML tables using SQL Queries
  • Show access to: MySql, Oracle & MS-SQL
  • Using PEAR DB

Object Orientation in PHP

  • Object basics
  • Classes in PHP
  • PHP4 - constructors
  • PHP5 - constructors and destructors
  • Inheritance
  • Accessing instance data and functions
  • __sleep and __wakeup
  • Class constants
  • PHP5 OO Additions
  • Objects: Assignments and References

Storing Data in Arrays using PHP

  • What are arrays?
  • How and when to use arrays
  • Indexing arrays, numeric and hashes
  • Initialising arrays
  • Using foreach
  • Add/remove info from arrays
  • One-dimensional arrays
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Array operators
  • Array related function

File and Directory Access Using PHP

  • Opening files, local and remote
  • Reading and writing files
  • Handling file permissions
  • Handling file ownership
  • File locking
  • Opening and reading directories
  • File uploads from the browser/user

Sessions and Cookies in PHP

  • What is a session?
  • Dependencies on the php.ini file
  • Understanding PHP session variables
  • Create a PHP session variable
  • Register and modify PHP session variables
  • Putting PHP session IDs in pages
  • Good Practice with sessions and PHP
  • Cookie properties
  • Setting a cookie in PHP
  • Retrieving PHP cookies
  • Expiring/Deleting PHP cookies
  • Drawbacks to cookies
  • Using cookies well
  • Cookie Security Issues

SOAP

  • SOAP Overview
  • Simple SOAP Client
  • Simple SOAP Server

Other I/O Issues in PHP

  • Getting IP addresses from visitors
  • Getting referring URLs from visitors
  • Environment variables
  • Showing different content to different browsers (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, etc)
  • Handling HTTP and MIME headers

PEAR, PECL and Smarty

  • PECL quick tour
  • APC - Alternative PHP Cache
  • PEAR installation and quick tour
  • PEAR Config
  • PEAR Log
  • PEAR Auth
  • PEAR HTML_Quickform
  • Smarty Templates
  • Smarty and HTML_Quickform
  • Smarty and Quickform help with security

 

Variables and Expressions in PHP

  • Identifiers
  • Data Types (integers, floats, strings and booleans)
  • Text constants, interpolation, here documents
  • Creating Variables
  • Variable assignment
  • Variable Scope
  • User-defined Constants
  • HTTP environment variables
  • Magic Constants
  • Variable References

Available Dates

Day

Date

Level

Centre Location
Monday 1st Feb 2010 PHP Training Part I Nottingham
Tuesday 2nd Feb 2010 PHP Training Part II Nottingham
Monday 2nd Aug 2010 PHP Training Part I Nottingham
Tuesday 3rd Aug 2010 PHP Training Part II Nottingham
       

Day

Date

Level

Centre Location
Monday 5th Apr 2010 PHP Training Part I Birmingham
Tuesday 6th Apr 2010 PHP Training Part II Birmingham
Monday 4th Oct 2010 PHP Training Part I Birmingham
Tuesday 5th Oct 2010 PHP Training Part II Birmingham
       

Day

Date

Level

Centre Location
Tuesday 1st Jun 2010 PHP Training Part I London
Wednesday 2nd Jun 2010 PHP Training Part II London
Wednesday 1st Sep 2010 PHP Training Part I London
Thursday 2nd Sep 2010 PHP Training Part II London

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