Web: Developing PHP Applications

Objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills required to develop modular applications for the Web using advanced features of PHP 5 and associated tools.

Targeted audience

Web content programmers.

Content

• Sessions and user tracking
• Object-oriented concepts in PHP5 (polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation, reflection, serialization)
• Handling errors with the try-catch construction
• Using namespaces
• Configuring autoload
• Unit tests with PHPUnit
• Processing XML (the SimpleXML extension, XPath queries, server-side XSL transformations, the DOM XML extension)
• Analyzing an application built with MVC pattern