PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP has been awarded the Programming Language of 2004, according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index. PHP is now the most used web programming language on the internet coming in with more than 25,000,000 domains.
Trainer Information: For over twenty years, David Smith has been developing commercial software applications and training others in software development tools and techniques. Over this time he has worked as both a staff developer and as a free-lance contractor for national and international companies. As a consultant, he has worked with clients in almost every major U.S. city, as well as Canada, Europe and Africa. His client list includes major companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computers, and Toys-R-Us. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, he has developed and delivered training for many training organizations, including Microsoft Authorized Training Education Centers and Learning Tree International. Much of this work involved creating distributed desktop applications in languages such as Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic, and Java, using development tools, such as Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, and MySQL. In recent years, Mr. Smith has focused on the development of web applications, and has used every major web programming environment (JSP/Java Servlets, Active Server Pages, and PHP). He has been a contributing writer for the Ziff-Davis publication "Exploring Windows NT" and is the author of an upcoming book on the PHP certification program.
PHP Programming Essentials: Level 1 - Introducing PHP
1.0 What is PHP? - Include demo
1.1 Programming language used primarily for server-side scripting
1.2 Blend of PERL and C
1.3 Embedded into HTML code
2.0 HTML review
2.1 Basic HTML file layout
2.2 HTML tags used to format the text
2.3 HMTL form and user control tags
3.0 Embedding PHP tags
3.1 Opening and closing tags
3.2 Text insertion shortcut tag
3.3 Include and Require
4.0 Installing PHP
4.1 Windows and IIS
4.2 Unix and Apache
4.3 Configuring the install
5.0 Intro to Zend Studio integrated development environment (IDE)
5.1 Installing the evaluation version
5.2 Features of the IDE
5.3 Demo
6.0 Recap of Level 1
PHP Programming Essentials: Level 2 - Basic Syntax
1.0 Identifiers
1.1 What is an identifier?
1.2 Rules for creating identifier names
2.0 Literals, constants, and variables
2.1 Literal data
2.2 When and how to use a constant
2.3 Declaring and assigning variables
2.4 Variable datatypes and type conversion
2.5 Substituting variables into string literals
3.0 Operators
3.1 Available operators
3.2 Operator evaluation order, precedence, and association
4.0 Arrays
4.1 Declaring and initializing an array
4.2 Accessing members of an array by index
4.3 Multidimensional arrays
5.0 Outputting text
5.1 Raw HTML
5.2 echo
5.3 print
6.0 Recap of Level 2
PHP Programming Essentials: Level 3 - More Syntax
1.0 Control structures (conditionals and loops)
1.1 Conditionals (if and switch)
1.2 Loops (for, while, and do while)
2.0 Declaring and using functions
2.1 Calling built-in functions
2.2 Creating a user-defined function
3.0 Variable scope
3.1 Local
3.2 Global
3.3 SuperGlobal
4.0 Processing form and session data with SuperGlobals
4.1 _GET
4.2 _POST
4.3 _SESSION
5.0 Recap of Level 3
PHP Programming Essentials: Level 4 - Persisting Data
1.0 Reading and writing files
1.1 Finding and manipulating files
1.2 Opening, reading, writing, and closing files
1.3 Other interesting file functions
2.0 Database access from within PHP
2.1 Database support in PHP
2.2 Generic database functions
2.3 Database-specific extensions
2.4 Database example using MySQL
3.0 Recap of Level 4
PHP Programming Essentials: Level 5 - Introduction to Advanced Topics
1.0 Handling strings and dates
1.1 String literals revisited
1.2 String handling functions
1.3 String regular expressions
1.4 Date functions
2.0 Object oriented programming and PHP
2.1 Concepts of OOP
2.2 Interface your code with COM
2.3 Creating and using custom objects in PHP
3.0 Debugging web pages with Zend Studio
3.1 Server and client components of Zend Studio
3.2 Setting breakpoints in you code
3.3 Starting the debugger
3.4 Examining variables
4.0 Certification requirements
4.1 Why should I get certified?
4.2 What is PHP certification?
4.3 How do I get certified?
5.0 Recap of Level 5 |
