Overview

This in-depth course is designed to thoroughly familiarise developers with the PHP scripting and development environment.

Course Outline

Advanced PHP Programming

Code Structure and Documentation, Function Recursion and Static Variables, References and Functions, PERL-Compatible Regular Expressions

Basic oo Programming

Defining a Class, Creating an Object, Creating Constructors, Object Inheritance, Using Class Functions Without Instances, Serializing Objects, Destroying Objects

Developing Web Applications

Catching Exceptions, Using PEAR's HTML_QuickFOrm, Modularizing a Web Site, Error Logging and Reporting, Browser Detection

Database Concepts

Database Design and Normalization, Storing Sessions in a Database, Storing BLOBs in a Database, Using Prepared Statements, Database Encryption, Working with Bound Variables

Security

Validating Forms, Validating Forms with JavaScript, Encryption with Mcrypt, HTTP Authentication, Web Server Security, Shared Server Security, Encorporating Captcha with PEAR, Using PEAR Auth

Advanced OO Programming

Inheritance, Access Control, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, Overloading

E-Commerce

Creating the Database, Administration, Showing the Products Online, Writing a Shopping Cart, Handling Commerical Transactions

Image Generation

Creating a Simple Image, Using TrueType Fonts, Creating a Database-Driven Graph, Saving and Building on Existing Images

Creating PDFs

Creating a Simple PDF, Adding Text to PDFs, Drawing Shapes, Using Images, Creating Multiple-Page PDFs

XML and PHP

What is XML, XML Syntax, Document Type Definitions, Parsing XML With PHP, XML Error Handling