Designed to provide beginner programmers with a solid
foundation in the PHP language, this course guides you through the basics of
PHP with an experiential approach, filled with numerous examples and hands-on
exercises, including substantial practice in coding parts of a fully functional
application. PHP I Foundations will provide you with an overview of the PHP
language, main concepts and help you develop and adopt the methodologies
and best practices of coding professionally in PHP. This class is suitable for
non programmers and software developers at a beginning level.
You
will learn to:
- Understand the syntax and structural elements of PHP
- Know how to correctly apply the various control-flow structures
- Understand PHP data types, type-juggling, and operator precedence
- Organize code into reusable functions
- Accomplish tasks using PHP's wealth of built-in file system and array
functions
- Understand essential elements of HTTP such as cookies and sessions
- Build forms to collect information from a user
- Interact with a database using PHP's MySQL functions
