PHP: Primed and Ready Open source server side scripting made easy
Get to grips with the fundamentals of PHP, perhaps the most popular server scripting language in use today. PHP allows web developers to create fast, dynamic web applications that can interact with HTML forms, databases, XML documents, mail servers and much more. This new workshop will guide you through the main features of the PHP environment and enable you to start building your own dynamic web applications.
Topics:
- What is PHP and how does it work?
- Understanding the PHP environment
- Programming constructs in PHP
- Processing HTML forms with PHP
- Extended PHP functionality
- Building PHP web applications
Who is it for?
If you are new to PHP and want to add dynamic server side functionality to your websites, then you will find this workshop invaluable. It is also ideal if you have started to use PHP already but would like a clearer understanding of how it works and the functionality it could provide you with. Please note, this workshop does not explicitly cover server administration and installation of PHP.
In order to get the most from this workshop, you must be comfortable working with HTML code and editing text files. This workshop does not cover programming from scratch, so ideally you should also have some experience or understanding of core programming concepts (in any language) e.g. variables, conditional statements, functions etc.
If you are new to programming, you may find that the introductory workshop Programming for Web Developers is a useful place to start (although this is not a pre-requisite).
By the end of the workshop participants will have:
- Investigated the PHP environment and used a range of PHP programming constructs
- Processed data from HTML forms
- Worked with PHP scripts that create web pages, query databases and write text files
- Explored the components that make up a working PHP-driven web application
