PHP Training Course Part 2

Date: 
Next training (Every 2 months): Friday, 1 June, 2012 - 09:30-16:30 View all dates

All scheduled dates:

  • Friday, 3 February, 2012 - 09:30-16:30 (ended)
  • Friday, 6 April, 2012 - 09:30-16:30 (ended)
  • Friday, 1 June, 2012 - 09:30-16:30 
  • Friday, 3 August, 2012 - 09:30-16:30 
  • Friday, 5 October, 2012 - 09:30-16:30 
  • Friday, 7 December, 2012 - 09:30-16:30 

Course Duration: 1 Day

Locations: Nottingham; Birmingham; London

 Book PHP Training Training Course

Hunter Systems  provide either bespoke or formal PHP training courses. The course can either be conducted on your own 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.

PHP Course 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

Content

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

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

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