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Advanced Certification in PHP

Our PHP Programming course provides the knowledge necessary to design and develop dynamic, database-driven web pages. PHP is a language written for the web, quick to learn, easy to deploy and provides substantial functionality required for e-commerce. This course introduces the PHP framework and syntax, and covers in depth the most important techniques which are used to build dynamic web sites.

Pre-Requisites:
A basic working knowledge of HTML is presumed. Some conceptual knowledge of how web servers and web browsers (clients) interact using HTTP. A working knowledge of at least one scripting/programming language or evidence of strong capabilities in relevant areas of mathematical/logical reasoning

Programme Outline:
Course Duration: 2 1/2 months
Schedule: 2 Hours/3 Days a week

Week 1: PHP and Web Programming - Overview

• How PHP compares with other approaches: JavaScript, Flash, CGI/Perl, Microsoft's ASP, and Sun's Java Server Pages
• PHP Pros and Cons
• PHP: past, present and future (PHP 3.0, PHP 4.0, and PHP 5)
• The road ahead...
• Modular application design
• Learning to create and use code libraries
• Object Oriented PHP
• Separating front and back ends (MVC pattern)
• Setting up your environment
• Directory structure
• Error handling and

Week 2: Elements of PHP - Review

• PHP variables and arrays Control flow
• Patterns for processing HTML forms
• Understanding $_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION and other PHP super-arrays
• Dynamically generating HTML - example: self-populating forms

Week 3: Functions

• How to think about PHP's many utility functions
• Examples with numbers, strings and dates
• Discussion: string functions vs. regular expressions

User-defined functions: units of code
Functional overview...

• Return values
• Parameters: Passing 'by value' vs. 'by reference'
• Variable scope

Arranging function in separate 'include' files: code libraries. Looking ahead: what is an 'Object'? More about debugging and error handling

Week 4: Introduction to PHP and MySQL

PHP's customized MySQL functions
A simple database-driven application: message board

• Creating the database schema
• Connecting to the database
• Inserting and Updating data

Week 5: Object-oriented PHP

What is O-O programming, and why is it cool?
Understanding how using objects can improve PHP programs
Understanding how objects work in PHP

• References vs. values
• PHP 4 vs. PHP 5

Re-using existing objects: Example of the PEAR::DB interface
Creating and programming with objects: Example of object-oriented version of message board

Week 6: String

• Quoting String Constants
• Printing Strings
• Table of Contents
• Accessing Individual Characters
• Cleaning Strings
• Encoding and Escaping
• Comparing Strings
• Manipulating and Searching Strings
• Regular Expressions
• POSIX-Style Regular Expressions
• Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions

Week 7: Arrays

• Indexed Versus Associative Arrays
• Identifying Elements of an Array
• Storing Data in Arrays
• Multidimensional Arrays
• Extracting Multiple Values
• Converting Between Arrays and Variables
• Traversing Arrays
• Sorting
• Acting on Entire Arrays
• Using Arrays

Week 8: Object

• Terminology
• Creating an Object
• Accessing Properties and Methods
• Declaring a Class
• Introspection
• Serialization

Week 9: Introduction to cms(Joomla)

• Building a cms through Php
• Joomla -Introduction to cutting edge content Week

Week 10: Bringing It All Together

• In the final week we apply many of the concepts studied so far to develop a complete, well-architected web application component: a simple online shopping cart using cookies, sessions and the database.
• PHP and web application security
• More about objects

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