Learn PHP programming by examples- Beginner Level

Last Update: Feb 25, 2024

Learn PHP programming by examples- Beginner Level

Free

About Course

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.

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

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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