Course Overview
The PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development course is designed to give delegates the knowledge to develop/maintain PHP scripts utilizing the MariaDB database system and HTML
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Course Objectives
On completion of the PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development course the delegate will have a good practical knowledge of how to write successful HTML/PHP code utilising a MariaDB database.
Who will the Course Benefit?
UNIX and Windows Users, Web Developers and Programmers wishing to create web based systems utilising PHP and MariaDB.
Requirements
Delegates attending this course should have some previous programming experience and be able to define general programming concepts including: compilation, execution, variables, arrays, sequence, selection, iteration, functions, objects, and classes. Moreover delegates should be able to navigate the filesystem (on the command line ideally), edit and save text files and browse the web. This knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the pre-requisite Introduction to Programming course.
Pre-Requisite Courses
There is no exam associated with this course
Course Objectives
On completion of the PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development course the delegate will have a good practical knowledge of how to write successful HTML/PHP code utilising a MariaDB database.
PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course
Day 1 – Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: PHP LANGUAGE BASICS
- Programming Basics
- Comment markers
- PHP Tags
- Output Commands
- Using STDIN STDOUT and STDERR
- Using Files
- Include_path
- Opening files
- Reading files
- Writing to Files
- RTRIM
- Operators
- Assignment Operators
- Increment/Decrement Operators
- Arithmetic Operators
- String Operators
- Comparison Operators
- Logical Operators
Session 2: PHP VARIABLES AND ARRAYS
- Naming Rules
- Data Types
- Numerical
- Integer
- Floating Point Numbers
- Floating Point Precision
- Single Quoted Strings
- Double Quoted Strings
- Creating and Assigning Variables
- Assigning Values to Variables
- Type Conversion
- Super Globals
- Constants
- Variable Variables
- Creating/modifying indexed and associative arrays
- Multi-Dimensional arrays
- Using array functions
- Sorting an array
PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course
Day 2
Session 3: CONTROL STRUCTURES
- Statement Blocks
- If Construct
- Else Keyword
- Elseif Keyword
- Switch
- Looping Constructs
- While Loop
- Do-while Loop
- For Loop
- Foreach Loop
- Loop Control Words
- Break
- Continue
Session 4: PHP FUNCTIONS
- Overview
- Variable Scoping
- Global Keyword
- Static Keyword
- Argument Passing by Value
- Argument Passing by Reference
- Returning Values
- Including External PHP Functions
- Conditionally Created Functions
- Functions Created Inside Functions
PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course
Day 3
Session 6: PHP OBJECT ORIENTED
- PHP Object Orientated Concepts
- Creating Classes and Objects
- Constructor and Destructor functions
- Inheritance
- Access Modifiers
Session 7: PHP & PEAR
- What is PEAR?
- Command Line Package Installer
- Fully-Automatic Installation
- Semi-Automatic Installation
- What is PECL?
Session 8: PHP & HTML
PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course
Day 4
Session 9: PHP CONFIGURATION
- Working with External Files
- Error Reporting
- Interacting with External Programs
Session 10: BASIC SQL STATEMENTS
- Creating Databases and Tables
- Inserting Data into Tables
- Viewing Tables
- UPDATE
- Drop
Session 11: CONNECTING TO MariaDB/MySQL
- mysqli_connect
- mysqli_error
- Die
Session 12: USING PHP TO PERFORM DATABASE FUNCTIONS
- Inserting Data into a Database
- Creating Queries
- Executing Queries
- Processing the Returned Query Data
- Updating the Database
PHP Programming & MariaDB for Web Development Training Course
Day 5
Session 13: GENERATING HTML USING PHP
- PHP Inside HTML
- HTML Form with Embedded PHP
- Multiple HTML Pages/Forms with PHP
Session 14: EMAIL AND COOKIES USING PHP
- Generating Email using PHP
- Generating Cookies using PHP
- Using Cookies
Session 15: PHP AND DATABASE SECURITY
- Designing Databases
- Connecting to Database
- Encrypted Storage Model
- SQL Injection
- Security Techniques
- Error Reporting
- User Submitted Data
Notes:
- Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
- Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.
