INTRODUCTION

• The origin of PHP, PHP is better than its alternatives, Interfaces to External systems, How PHP works with the Web Server, Hardware and Software requirement, What a PHP script looks like, Saving data for later, Receiving, Repeating code

BASIC PHP DEVELOPMENT

• How PHP script work, Basic PHP syntax, PHP data types, Displaying type information, Testing for a specific data type, Changing type with set type, operators, variable manipulation, Dynamic variables, String in PHP

Control Structures

• The if statement, Using the else clause with if statement, the switch statement, Using the? Operator, The while statement, the do while statement, the for statement, Breaking out of loops, nesting loops, summary

FUNCTIONS

• What a function, Defining a function, Returning value from function, user-defined function, dynamic function calls, variable scope, accessing variable with the global statement, Functions calls with the static statement, setting default values for arguments, passing argument to a function by value, passing arguments to a functions by reference, Testing for function existence

ARRAYS

• Single-Dimensional Arrays, Multidimensional Arrays, casting Arrays, associative arrays, accessing arrays, getting the size of an arrays, looping through an associative arrays, examining arrays, joining arrays, sorting arrays, sorting an associative arrays

WORKING WITH THE FILE SYSTEM

• Creating and deleting a file, reading and writing text files, working with directories in PHP, Checking for existence of file, determining file size, opening a file for writing, reading or appending, writing data to the file, reading characters

WORKING WITH FORMS

• Forms, Super global variables, the server array, a script to acquire user input, importing user input, accessing user input, combine HTML and PHP code, using hidden fields, redirecting the user, file upload and scripts

WORKING WITH REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

• The basic regular expressions, PCRE, Matching patterns, finding matches, replace patterns, modifiers, break up strings

CLASSES AND OBJECTS

• Objects oriented programming; define a class, an object, creating an object, object methods, object constructors and destructors, class constants, class inheritance, abstract classes and methods, Objects serialization, checking for class and method existence, exceptions, iterators, summary

INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE

• Introduction to SQL, Connecting to the SQL, Selecting a database, finding out about errors, adding data to a table, acquiring the value, finding the number of rows, inserting data, entering and updating data, executing multiple queries

COOKIES

• The anatomy of a cookie, setting a cooking with PHP, deleting a cookie, creating session, cookie, working with the query string, creating query string

SESSION

• What is session, starting a session, working with session variables, destroying session’s variables, destroying sessions, passing session ids, encoding and decoding session’s variables.

DISK ACCESS, I/O, MATH AND MAIL

• HTTP connections, writing to the browser, getting input from forms, output buffering, session handing, regular expression, common math, random numbers, file upload, file download, environment variables, e-mail in PHP.