Introduction to PHP with MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle/DB2 Course Calendar (5 days)

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Recommended Pre-requisites

Course Outline/Agenda

• Introduction to PHP
  • PHP's role in the WWW
• Language fundamentals
  • PHP Basics
  • PHP Data types
  • Storing & retrieving information in variables
  • Basic operations with variables
  • Variable rules
• Decision making in PHP
  • Comparison operators
  • The if construct
  • The while construct
  • The for construct
• Arrays and PHP
  • Working with arrays
  • Sorting arrays
  • Other array related functions
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
• Re-using PHP code
  • Functions
    • Declaring functions
    • Passing data by reference
  • Including code in scripts
  • Variable scope in PHP
• PHP and the WWW server
  • Working with web forms
  • PHP POST & GET form elements
  • Embedding forms with PHP code
  • Validating form data
  • Preventing spoofed submissions
  • Guidelines for secure PHP
  • Understanding magic quotes
  • Setting default values in forms
  • Processing uploaded files
  • Retrieving & Sorting uploaded files
• Working with databases and ADODB
  • A brief history of databases
  • Relational database concepts
  • Database tables
• Using the CREATE TABLE statement
• SQL Data types
  • Integer data types
  • Floating point data types
  • Character data types
  • Other SQL data types
• SQL column modifiers
• Understanding SERIAL and AUTO_INCREMENT column options
• Table & database naming syntax
• Manipulating data in SQL
  • The SELECT statement
    • Overall SELECT syntax
    • Selecting values to display
    • Restricting selections using the WHERE clause
    • Using ORDER BY to sort query results
    • Using LIMIT to limit result sets
  • The INSERT statement
  • The UPDATE Statement
  • The DELETE and TRUNCATE TABLE statements
• Leveraging existing code using PEAR & PECL
• Accessing databases using PHP
  • Downloading & Installing ADODB
  • Creating a Data Source Name (DSN)
  • Setting connection options & connecting to the database
  • Executing SQL statements
  • Executing prepared statements
  • Multiple statement execution
  • Retrieving information about queries (metadata)
  • Transactions and queries
  • Retrieving data from a database
  • Single-step queries
• Managing web sessions
  • Using PHP session handling
  • PHP cookie handling
• Handling date & time in PHP
  • Diplaying dates & times
  • Parsing a date or time
  • Generating relative times
• Working with files in PHP
  • Reading & writing files with PHP
  • File permissions
  • Handling errors
• Working with XML data in PHP
  • Understanding XML
  • RSS Feeds
• Sending email using PHP
  • PHP Email settings
  • Sending text messages using PHP
  • Sending HTML formatted email messages using PHP
• Debugging PHP Code
  • PHP Error handling
  • PHP debugging tools
  • Suppressing errors

Class Size

On-Site Delivery

This course is available for on-site delivery for groups of 3 or more students.

OTG offers discounted training for on-site courses of more than 3 students - call us at 877-258-8987 (or submit the form on the upper right side of this page) for more information.

Course Details

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Develop PHP scripts that perform decision making and looping tasks
• Develop PHP scripts that integrate with a WWW server, and do the following:
  • Handle the processing of GET and POST forms
  • Securely produce output that prevents Cross-Site Scripting (CSS) attacks.
  • Securely process input from users, to prevent Shell Injection attacks
  • Set and retrieve cookies stored on the client web browser
  • Securely store and retrieve session information, without placing the information on the client browser (so it cannot be tampered with, and is not visible to the client)
  • Dynamically generate web pages as well as pre-populate web forms.
  • Create secure web pages that require authentication and are user specific
  • Create shopping cart type applications, which store user session information
• Understand how to interact with a database
  • Understand basic database concepts
  • Design a database schema to store data
  • Create and execute queries to store and retrieve data from a databases
  • Integrate with back-end databases, using a databases-independent method
• Communicate with a database using PHP
  • Integrate with a database server (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Informix, MS SQL Server, etc.) to store and retrieve data
  • Interface with DB2 on the IBM iSeries (i5/OS) platform
  • Convert user submitted information to "database safe" information, to prevent SQL Injection attacks
  • Perform single-step operations to store and retrieve information from a database
• Work with XML data
  • Create RSS aggregators
  • Generate dynamic RSS feeds
  • Retrieve and parse XML data using PHP
• Send email using PHP
  • Send HTML Formatted email messages
  • Send text email messages

Instructional Materials

• OTG Course Guide
• Learning PHP 5 (O'Reilly & Associates)

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