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PHP Course Modules from GBdirect
Combine Modules for Customised PHP Training
All of our PHP course modules are outlined below. At present the entire set is delivered as single course over 3 or 4 days, depending on the experience and skills of delegates.
With judicious selection, however, a purchasing company could build itself a bespoke course from these modules to meet a very specific training need, e.g. a 1 day workshop on developing a shopping trolly application using appropriate PHP functions.
Please ring our training advisors for help in assembling a course with appropriate content, speed of progress, prerequisite knowledge, and consistent subject matter, etc.
- N.B. GBdirect write fully-bespoke courses for clients in all of our specialist areas of consultancy. If you have such a requirement and the budget for it, please contact our course developers for advice and support.
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
Taking 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
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
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
whiledo ... whileforbreak and continueexit
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
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 functions
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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
String Manipulation in PHP
- substring and [] operators
- Case conversion, trimming
- Formatting output data
- Regular expressions
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 Practise 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
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
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
Handling Email with PHP
- Sending email
- Unix and NT setup
mail function
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
SOAP
- SOAP Overview
- Simple SOAP Client
- Simple SOAP Server
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
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
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Publicly Scheduled Training Locations
We currently run public training courses in the following locations:
- London, UK
- Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
- Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
- Carshalton, Surrey, UK
- Chester, North West, UK
- Coventry, West Midlands, UK
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
- Manchester, North West, UK
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
- Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
- Reading, Berkshire, UK
- Slough, Berkshire, UK
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
- Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
- Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.
Please see the individual course outlines or our public
training schedule
for details.
In-house (on-site) training locations
We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in
any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.
Our In-house training guidelines
outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs
for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then
make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at
your location.
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