Web: Developing PHP Pages and Documents

Objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills required to create dynamic documents using PHP.

Targeted audience

Web content programmers, web specialists and webmasters.

Content

• Installing a local WAMP server
• Inserting a PHP script in an HTML page
• Variables, constants and data types
• Operators, conditional expressions, loops and functions
• Reading input from the user
• Useful functions for Web development
• Indexed and associative arrays, sorting functions
• Strings and regular expressions
• Date and time functions
• Sending e-mail with PHP
• Managing a MySQL database using phpMyAdmin
• Using a MySQL database: connecting and disconnecting, SQL queries, fetching results and handling errors
• Case study: a dynamic application with an embedded database