PHP / MySQL Programming Fundamentals

Course Objectives

Designed to provide beginner programmers with a solid foundation in the PHP language, this course guides you through the basics of PHP with an experiential approach, filled with numerous examples and hands-on exercises, including substantial practice in coding parts of a fully functional application. Class exercises are designed to reinforce key language concepts.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Downloading and installing PHP
• Downloading and installing MySQL tools onto home machine and server
• Configuring relevant settings to match the requirements of your project
• Working style in between a user interface and a database stores demanding information
• Planning and applying PHP and MySQL to your own real world projects
• PHP and MySQL advance topics for learning framework for further study
• After completion of this course students can create some awesome websites or web applications
• Understand the syntax and structural elements of PHP
• Know how to correctly apply the various control-flow structures
• Understand PHP data types, type-juggling, and operator precedence
• Organize code into reusable functions
• Accomplish tasks using PHP's wealth of built-in file system and array functions
• Understand essential elements of HTTP such as cookies and sessions
• Understand the basics of validating input and escaping output
• Build forms to collect information from a user
• Interact with a database using PHP's MySQL functions

Course Outline