Learn PHP For Web Development

Last Update: Dec 19, 2024

Free

About Course

Explore the fundamentals of PHP for web development in this comprehensive course. Learn how to effectively use PHP for creating dynamic websites, including how to learn PHP for WordPress to enhance your website’s functionality.

In this course you learn how to coding in PHP programming language for building secure scalable back-end applications.

This hands-on self-paced PHP programming course provides you with the knowledge necessary to design and develop dynamic, database-driven web pages. PHP is a language written for the web, quick to learn, easy to deploy and provides substantial functionality required for e-commerce. This course introduces the PHP framework and syntax, and covers in depth the most important techniques used to build dynamic web sites.

Back-end Programming With PHP

Dive into the essentials of back-end programming with PHP, from foundational syntax to building robust server-side applications. If you’re wondering how to learn PHP, this course offers a clear path for beginners to advance their skills.

PHP Learning Objectives

In this self-paced course, you will learn the following:

Creating and modifying a PHP page
Working with variables and data types
Using Constants
Adding comments
Employing different data types
Working with operators

PHP Topics and Subtopics

Here is the course outline:

Session 1: Getting started with PHP

1.1: HTML output from web server

1.2: Hello, World!

1.3: Non-HTML output from web server

1.4: PHP built-in server

1.5: PHP CLI

1.6: Instruction Separation

1.7: PHP Tags

Session 2: Variables

2.1: Accessing A Variable Dynamically By Name (Variable variables)

2.2: Data Types

2.3: Global variable best practices

2.4: Default values of uninitialized variables

2.5: Variable Value Truthiness and Identical Operator

Session 3: Variable Scope

3.1: Superglobal variables

3.2: Static properties and variables

3.3: User-deﬁned global variables

Session 4: Superglobal Variables PHP

4.1: Suberglobals explained

4.2: PHP5 SuperGlobals

Session 5: Outputting the Value of a Variable

5.1: echo and print

5.2: Outputting a structured view of arrays and objects

5.3: String concatenation with echo

5.4: printf vs sprintf

5.5: Outputting large integers

5.6: Output a Multidimensional Array with index and value and print into the table

Session 6: Constants

6.1: Deﬁning constants

6.2: Class Constants

6.3: Checking if constant is deﬁned

6.4: Using constants

6.5: Constant arrays

Session 7: Magic Constants

7.1: Difference between FUNCTION and METHOD

7.2: Difference between CLASS, get_class() and get_called_class()

7.3: File & Directory Constants

Session 8: Comments

8.1: Single Line Comments

8.2: Multi Line Comments

Session 9: Types

9.1: Type Comparison

9.2: Boolean

9.3: Float

9.4: Strings

9.5: Callable

9.6: Resources

9.7: Type Casting

9.8: Type Juggling

9.9: Null

9.10: Integers

Session 10: Operators

10.1: Null Coalescing Operator (??)

10.2: Spaceship Operator (<=>)

10.3: Execution Operator (“)

10.4: Incrementing (++) and Decrementing Operators (–)

10.5: Ternary Operator (?:) 56

10.6: Logical Operators (&&/AND and ||/OR)

10.7: String Operators (. and .=)

10.8: Object and Class Operators

10.9: Combined Assignment (+= etc)

10.10: Altering operator precedence (with parentheses)

10.11: Basic Assignment (=)

10.12: Association

10.13: Comparison Operators

10.14: Bitwise Operators

10.15: instanceof (type operator)

Requirements

None

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Private Tutoring Classes

To take skills you learn from this course to the next level, taking the following tutoring classes are highly recommended. It is also a great opportunity to discuss your questions and problems related to this course with an experienced instructor:

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After finishing this course, you can enroll in any of following classes:

Learn PHP For Web Development

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