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Professional PHP Training And Development (3 days)

Zend's Professional PHP courses deliver a thorough overview of advanced PHP development concepts and techniques designed for the professional developer who is looking to solidify and expand his or her knowledge of the PHP5 language. PHP Instruction is delivered by a Zend Certified Instructor.

Professional PHP Training And Development Course Calendar (3 days)


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Recommended Pre-requisites

Students attending this PHP course should have successfully completed PHP Essentials, have equivalent PHP experience, or have taken one of our equivalent PHP courses.

Course Outline/Agenda

PHP 5 Objects
- Objects in PHP 5
- Extending objects
- Cloning and referencing
- Interfaces
- Practical applications
- Serialization
XML
- SAX
- DOM
- Simple XML
- DOM
- XML parsers
- Callbacks
- Error Handling
PHP Regular expressions
- POSIX vs PCRE
- Meta characters
- Quantifiers
- Escape sequences
- References and backreferences
- Optimizations
- Named patterns
- Lookarounds, lookaheads and lookbehinds
PHP & E-mail
- E-mail processing
- PHP and sendmail
- Sender identity
- E-mail on Windows
- Sending and delivering e-mail
- SMTP communication
- Headers
- MIME and HTML mail
- Attachments
Encryption
- One-way encryption and digesting
- Symmetric encryption
- Encrypted data storage
- Data encoding
Advanced PHP database programming
- Advanced MySQL
- Chained queries
- Sub-queries
- Unions
- Improving query performance
- Using prepared statements
- Troubleshooting database problems
Performance management
- Compiler caching
- Compiler optimizations
- Apache/PHP integration
- Web server performance improvements
- Output buffering
- Network buffering
- Content compression
- Content reduction
- Profiling and benchmarking
- Templating & Internationalization
- Anatomy of a templating system
- Character sets
- Assembling templates
- Character normalization
- Smarty
PHP Security
- Understanding security
- Implementing security
- Input validation
- Securing data
- SSL/TLS
- Register globals
- String and path validation
- Magic quotes
- XSS
- SQL Injection
- Escaping
- Error reporting
- File security
- Session security
- Security through obscurity

Class Size

This class is limited to a maximum of 12 students.

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

This PHP course is developed by Zend and delivered by OTG. OTG is a Zend Certified Partner.

This course is taught by our Zend Certified Instructors - Instructors who have meet the rigorous criteria set forth by Zend for PHP instructors that deliver their courseware.

Instructional Materials

The following materials are used to deliver this course:

Zend Professional PHP Development Courseware

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