Developing Web Applications with PHP and MySQL

2 day course

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a cross-platform scripting language that is particularly well-suited for Web development.  Introduction to PHP will start by introducing students to the fundamentals of the PHP language and how to set up PHP on a server and continue through most of the common server-side functionality incorporated in modern Web sites. The course uses a MySQL database, and there is a demonstration of how to use PHP to work with other databases as well.  In this course, you will learn to set up PHP and a MySQL database, understand and write syntactically correct PHP, create pages that respond to form submissions, maintain state with cookies and sessions, automatically generate emails, read and write files on the server, connect to a database and search for and display records from a database, insert/modify/delete records from a database through Web forms, validate user input with regular expressions, and create modular reusable code by writing user-defined functions.

Overview of Course Topics:
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• Web Application Technologies and PHP
• Writing PHP Pages
• Processing Data from Online Forms
• Working with Cookies
• Maintaining State with Sessions
• Generating Email with PHP
• Interfacing with the Server File System
• Iteration Structures in PHP
• Database Integration with PHP
• Functions and Regular Expressions
• Creating a Drill Down Query
• Installing PHP and MySQL