PHP Developer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• • Administration and Course Materials
• • Course Structure and Agenda
• • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: GETTING STARTED

• • About PHP
• • Installing PHP
• • PHP editors and IDEs
• • Executing a script
• • HTML recap
• • Serving a PHP web page

Session 2: SYNTAX

• • Tags
• • HTML escaping
• • Separating instructions
• • Comments

Session 3: VARIABLES,CONSTANTS,& DATA TYPES

• • echo and print
• • Defining variables
• • Variable naming
• • Assignment by reference
• • Uninitialised variables
• • Defining constants
• • Magic constants
• • Built-in types: null,bool,int,float,string,array,object
• • Other types
• • Dynamic typing
• • Type casting and juggling

Session 4: HANDLING USER DATA

• • HTTP requests recap
• • HTML form recap
• • Command line arguments
• • Superglobals

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Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: EXPRESSIONS & OPERATORS

• • Forms of expressions
• • Operators by type: arithmetic,comparison,logical,other
• • Operator order of precedence

Session 6: CONTROL STRUCTURES

• • if,else,and elseif/else if
• • while and do-while
• • for and foreach
• • break and continue
• • switch and match
• • Alternative syntax
• • include and require

Session 7: FUNCTIONS

• • Defining functions
• • Function arguments
• • Passing arguments by reference
• • Default argument values
• • Variable-length argument lists
• • Named arguments
• • Return values
• • Variable scope
• • Built-in functions
• • Anonymous functions
• • Arrow functions

Session 8: STRINGS

• • Defining strings x 4
• • Variable parsing
• • Indexing/offsetting
• • String functions and operators

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Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 9: ARRAYS

• • Defining arrays with and without keys
• • Alternative syntax
• • Key casting
• • Accessing elements
• • Creating and modifying elements
• • Destructuring
• • Unpacking
• • Array functions

Session 10: CLASSES & OBJECTS

• • Defining classes
• • Properties and methods
• • $this
• • Constants
• • Instantiating a class
• • Accessing properties and calling methods
• • Constructors and destructors
• • Static members
• • Visibility
• • Inheritance
• • Abstract classes
• • Interfaces
• • Traits
• • Autoloading classes
• • Namespaces

Session 11: ERRORS & EXCEPTIONS

• • Errors
• • Error types
• • Handling errors
• • Exceptions
• • Exception types
• • try,catch,and finally
• • Global exception handler

Session 12: DATABASE INTEGRATION

• • Vendor-specific extensions
• • The PDO extension
• • Installation
• • Obtaining a connection
• • Transaction management
• • Prepared statements
• • Error handling
• • The PDO and associated classes

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Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 13: AUTHENTICATION,COOKIES,& SESSIONS

• • Basic HTTP authentication
• • Writing and reading cookies
• • Managing sessions

Session 14: PATTERNS,TEMPLATING,PACKAGES,& FRAMEWORKS

• • The MVC pattern
• • The DI pattern
• • The Singleton pattern
• • Templating
• • Package management
• • PHP frameworks

Session 15: WEB SERVICE INTEGRATION

• • Web service recap
• • Asynchronous HTTP requests with JavaScript