Web Application Development with PHP

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Duration: 4 Days

Audience

Prerequisites

This course is designed for Web application developers and professionals who have exposure to HTML and general Internet technologies and protocol. At least one year of programming in any of the modern programming languages is required.

Architects
Designers
Consultants
Developers
Technical managers

HTML

Description

PHP is a popular language designed for creating dynamic Web content. It rivals with ASP.NET and JSP/Servlet technologies. This course first teaches PHP as a full-fledged object-oriented programming language and then covers the whole spectrum of using PHP to build secure, industrial-strength Web applications. This is a highly hands-on course, at least 50% of the time will be spent on in-class labs.

Objectives

This course aims to teach a set of advanced skills for implementing practical, industrial-strength PHP-based Web applications. On completion, attendees will be able to:

Have a firm understanding of the PHP language
Set up a PHP environment
Understand objected-oriented programming with PHP
Use the PEAR package
Use MySQL with PHP
Write practical PHP applications
Write secure PHP Web applications
Generate reports in PHP
Process XML in PHP

Course Outline

Overview of PHP

What is PHP
Set up a PHP environment
Running your first PHP page

PHP - The Language

PHP language syntax
Data types and variables
Expressions
Statements
Functions
String processing
Arrays

Object-Oriented Programming with PHP

Classes and objects
Inheritance
Introspection
Exception handling
Working with class hierarchies
Abstract classes and interfaces
Using PEAR components

Using PHP with MySQL

Connecting to MySQL in PHP
Query MySQL database using PHP
Database inserts, updates, and deletes

Generating PDF

Creating PDF content dynamically
Working with text
Inserting images
Generating graphics

Basic Web Programming with PHP

Builtin global array variables
Server information
Processing user input forms
Setting response headers
Session processing

Working with XML

Parsing XML documents with DOM
Parsing XML documents with SAX
Parsing XML documents with SimpleXML
Transforming XML documents with XSLT
Generating XML with PHP

Secure PHP Web Applications

HTTP authentication with PHP
Form-based authentication
SSL and PHP
Best practices in Web application security

Generating Graphics with GD

Creating graphics dynamically with GD
Basic graphical primitives (lines, curves and shapes)
Generating text

Real World PHP Web Applications

Error handling
Debugging
Deployment
Reporting
Generating PDF
XML processing


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