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PHP 5.5 course at a glance

Pages
561No of slides in the Manual
Exercises
13Total No of Exercises
Sections
23No of main topics, see index below
Public
NoPublic course in the UK and Ireland
On-Site
YesWe can come to your venue
Level
11 - Beginners
2 - Intermediate
3 - Advanced
Days
3Week days but we can put on weekend courses
Duration:
Minimum skill level required:
On-Site course:
Public course:
Sections:
No of exercises:
No of pages in the manual:
Pre-Requisite course(s):
Suggested further course(s):
Price guide:
3 days
1 (1 - Beginner, 2 - Experienced 3 - Advanced)
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No
23
13
561
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PHP 5.5 Programming training course
Exercise highlights

Creating HTML output using PHP
Creating Cookies
Loading XML into PHP
Writing to Cookies
Passing data between pages using $_POST

Index of PHP 5.5 Programming training course

Section
Section Name
 

One
PHP Introduction
1

 
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
2

 
- Some of its main uses
4

Two
PHP Structure
5

 
- Basic Structure of PHP
6

 
- PHP Version etc
15

 
- Use of Echo
17

 
- Concatenating Echo
19

 
- Use of Echo with Escape Characters
21

 
- Use of Echo with Calculations
27

 
- Echo versus Print
30

 
- Use of Echo with HTML
32

 
- Commenting code in PHP
34

Three
Defining PHP Variables
37

 
- Introduction
38

 
- Defining PHP Variables
39

 
- Naming PHP Variables
40

 
- Declaring PHP Variables
43

 
- Flexibility of Datatypes
45

 
- Casting Datatypes
46

 
- Using gettype() with PHP Variables
50

 
- Using var_dump() with PHP Variables
52

 
- Using settype() with PHP Variables
53

 
- Using unset() with PHP Variables
55

 
- Using Heredoc
56

 
- Using Newdoc
58

 
- Using Define for Constants in PHP
59

Four
Manipulating Variables in PHP
61

 
- Introduction
62

 
- Mathematics
63

 
- Incrementing Values
67

 
- Prefix and Postfix
69

 
- Concatenation
72

 
- Exercise One
76

Five
Using PHP built in String Functions
81

 
- Introduction
82

 
- Miscellaneous String Functions
84

 
- Changing Case of Strings
89

 
- Substringing Strings
90

 
- Searching Strings
92

 
- Trimming Strings
98

 
- Nesting Functions
99

Six
Using PHP built in Number Functions
100

 
- Introduction
101

 
- Number Rounding
102

 
- Exercise Two
106

Seven
Introduction to PHP Arrays
109

 
- Introduction
110

 
- Numeric Arrays
112

 
- Populating Numeric Arrays
113

 
- Populating Numeric Arrays with range()
116

 
- Populating Numeric Arrays with array_pad()
119

 
- Populating Associative Arrays
121

 
- Using count() or sizeof()
127

 
- Using var_dump()
128

 
- Using print_r()
130

 
- Manually traversing Arrays
131

 
- Converting Arrays
133

 
- Using implode() and explode()
134

 
- Using unset()
136

 
- Multi-Dimensional Arrays
137

 
- Using var_dump() on multi-dimension arrays
140

 
- Using count() on multi-dimension arrays
143

 
- Three dimensional arrays
144

 
- Accessing Three Dimensional Arrays
146

 
- Alternative declaration of Arrays
147

 
- Exercise Three
148

Eight
Using Array Functions
154

 
- Introduction
155

 
- Using array_sum() / array_product()
156

 
- Sorting Arrays
157

 
- assort() and arsort()
163

 
- ksort() and krsort()
164

 
- array_multisort()
165

 
- array_reverse()
169

 
- array_flip()
170

 
- array_fill() and array_fill_keys()
172

 
- array_combine()
176

 
- array_intersect()
177

 
- array_diff()
178

 
- array_merge()
179

 
- array_unique()
180

 
- Exercise Four
181

Nine
Conditional PHP Statements
185

 
- Conditional tests
186

 
- Comparison Operators
187

 
- If statement structure
189

 
- Grouping processes in an 'If' statement
191

 
- Alternative processing
193

 
- Multiple 'If' statements
194

 
- Testing different datatypes
198

 
- Testing Strings
200

 
- Testing Booleans
204

 
- Testing for nulls
206

 
- Alternative Colon syntax
207

 
- Multiple Condition tests (and)
209

 
- Multiple Condition tests (or)
210

 
- Multiple Condition tests (xor)
211

 
- Nested If Conditions
212

 
- Ternary Operator
213

 
- Using PHP built in Functions for testing
216

 
- Exercise Five
218

Ten
Using Switch in Condition Testing
221

 
- Introduction
222

 
- The Switch Syntax
223

 
- Using Break with Switch
225

 
- Using Default with Switch
227

 
- Using Switch with Colon Syntax
228

 
- Advanced Switch Testing
229

 
- Mixing If Conditions with Switch
232

 
- Exercise Six
234

Eleven
Looping through values in PHP
236

 
- Introduction
237

 
- Foreach processing of Arrays
238

 
- Foreach processing with Colon syntax
242

 
- Multidimensional Arrays with Foreach
243

 
- While Loops
245

 
- While Loops with Colon Syntax
247

 
- Using Break to exit Loops
248

 
- Do .. While Loops
249

 
- Do .. While and While Loops with Arrays
251

 
- For Loops
252

 
- For Loops with Colon Syntax
254

 
- For Loops with empty expressions
255

 
- For Loops with more than one variable
257

 
- For Loops with Arrays
258

 
- Advanced Breaking of Loops
260

 
- Using Continue with Loops
267

 
- Exercise Seven
270

Twelve
Using Dates within PHP
274

 
- Introduction
275

 
- Creating String of Dates
276

 
- Converting Strings to Dates using strtotime()
277

 
- Limitation of using strtotime()
284

 
- Using Format Masks with date()
285

 
- Comparing Dates
287

 
- Adding to Dates
288

 
- Using mktime()
289

 
- Using getdate()
290

 
- Other Date Functions
291

 
- Exercise Eight
292

Thirteen
Regular Expressions using PCRE
294

 
- Introduction
295

 
- Testing for 'Contains' within a String
297

 
- Starts or Ends using Line Anchors
298

 
- Starts and Ends using Line Anchors (or)
300

 
- Using the Dot (Any Character)
301

 
- Using {Intervals}
303

 
- Using Character Lists []
305

 
- Using Character Lists to exclude matches
308

 
- Using Escape Sequences
309

 
- Using the Question Mark (Optional)
311

 
- Using the Plus sign (Mandatory)
313

 
- Using the Star sign (Optional)
314

 
- Backreferencing
315

 
- POSIX
317

 
- Using preg_replace()
319

 
- Using preg_replace() with arrays
321

 
- Using preg_filter()
323

 
- Using preg_replace_callback()
324

 
- Using preg_match()
325

 
- Preg_match() with PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE
326

 
- Using preg_match_all()
327

 
- Using preg_grep()
329

 
- Using preg_last_error()
331

 
- Using preg_quote()
332

 
- Using preg_split()
333

 
- Using preg_split() with arrays
335

 
- Exercise Nine
336

Fourteen
PHP Functions
339

 
- Introduction
340

 
- Rudimentary Functions
341

 
- Function Positioning
343

 
- Passing Parameters to Functions
344

 
- Passing Multiple Parameters to Functions
346

 
- Defaulting Parameters in Functions
347

 
- Returning Values
348

 
- Returning Values in an Array
350

 
- The scope of Variables
351

 
- Global Variables
353

 
- Passing Arguments by Reference
354

 
- Dynamic Function Calls
355

 
- Calling Functions from other Functions
358

 
- Calling PHP Functions in other files
359

 
- Structure of the PHP file
360

 
- Calling the PHP file
361

 
- Calling the PHP file using include()
362

 
- Passing Parameters to another PHP file
365

 
- Exercise Ten
366

Fifteen
PHP Cookies
369

 
- Introduction
370

 
- Creating Cookies in PHP with setcookie()
371

 
- Setting the expiry date for Cookies
373

 
- Setting the path for Cookies
375

 
- Setting the domain/security for Cookies
376

 
- Reading Cookies with $_COOKIE
377

 
- Using Arrays with Cookies
379

Sixteen
PHP Sessions
380

 
- Introduction
381

 
- Creating Sessions
382

 
- Testing Sessions
383

 
- Using Arrays with Sessions
384

 
- Deleting Sessions
385

Seventeen
PHP Form Processor
386

 
- Introduction
387

 
- Anatomy of a HTML form
389

 
- Reading input using $_POST/$_GET
392

 
- Reading input using $_POST
393

 
- Reading input using $_GET
394

 
- $_GET versus $_POST
395

 
- Using $_REQUEST
396

 
- Using $_SERVER
397

 
- Preventing Invalid HTML in Forms
401

 
- Emailing in PHP
402

 
- Emailing HTML in PHP
404

 
- Emailing with attachments in PHP
406

 
- Exercise Eleven
407

Eighteen
PHP Errors
410

 
- Introduction
411

 
- Typical Errors
412

 
- Suppressing Errors
414

 
- $php_errormsg
417

 
- Using die to end the processing
419

 
- Using exit to end the processing
420

 
- Using isset() $php_errormsg
421

 
- Alternative way to use $php_errormsg
422

 
- Using error_reporting()
423

 
- Using error_reporting() report levels
426

 
- Custom error handling
428

 
- Raising Errors using trigger_error()
432

 
- Using error_log
434

 
- Using a centralised error handler
437

Nineteen
Exceptions
439

 
- Introduction
440

 
- Exception Syntax
441

 
- The 'try'
442

 
- The 'throw'
443

 
- The 'catch'
444

 
- Standard Exceptions
445

 
- Developer Defined Exceptions
448

 
- Processing the Exceptions
449

 
- Exception Methods
450

 
- set_exception_handler()
452

 
- Re-throwing Exceptions
454

 
- Finally
455

 
- Exercise Twelve
457

Twenty
PHP File I/O
459

 
- Introduction
460

 
- Using fopen()
461

 
- Access Modes
462

 
- Using fgets()
464

 
- Using fgetc()
467

 
- Using file()
468

 
- Using file_get_contents()
469

 
- Using fopen() with URLs
471

 
- Using fputs() / fwrite()
472

 
- Using file_put_contents()
474

 
- Working with Comma Separated Files (CSV)
477

 
- Using fgetcsv()
479

 
- Using fputcsv()
481

 
- Working with Binary Files
483

 
- Checking the Size of Bytes written
486

 
- Operating System Functions
487

 
- Using exec()
489

Twenty One
Creating HTML with PHP
491

 
- Introduction
492

 
- Why use PHP
493

 
- HTML example
494

 
- PHP simulating the HTML example
496

 
- Using PHP to create dynamic HTML
500

 
- Using htmlspecialchars()
507

Twenty Two
PHP Object Orientated Programming
508

 
- Introduction
509

 
- Terminology
510

 
- Instances
511

 
- Extending Classes
513

 
- Using '$this'
515

 
- Private and Public Methods
517

 
- Creating new Classes
518

 
- Referencing via Variables
520

Twenty Three
Using XML with PHP
521

 
- Introduction
522

 
- Reading XML files with PHP with DOM
523

 
- Reading XML with getElementsByTagName()
531

 
- Looping with getElementsByTagName()
533

 
- Writing XML files with PHP
542

 
- Writing XML files with PHP Arrays
547

 
- Writing XML files with PHP from MySQL
553

 
- Exercise Thirteen
558


Sections of PHP 5.5 training course

1
PHP Introduction

2
PHP Structure

3
Defining PHP Variables

4
Manipulating Variables in PHP

5
Using PHP built in String Functions

6
Using PHP built in Number Functions

7
Introduction to PHP Arrays

8
Using Array Functions

9
Conditional PHP Statements

10
Using Switch in Condition Testing

11
Looping through values in PHP

12
Using Dates within PHP

13
Regular Expressions using PCRE

14
PHP Functions

15
PHP Cookies

16
PHP Sessions

17
PHP Form Processor

18
PHP Errors

19
Exceptions

20
PHP File I/O

21
Creating HTML with PHP

22
PHP Object Orientated Programming


Synopsis for PHP 5.5 Programming training course

One of the main advantages of this PHP 5.5 course is that we come to you to present it, unlike later versions of this course, it is not available as a public course but like all of our courses it can be performed at your premises, or by arrangement we can set up at a conference centre near you, this is particularly good if there is only one delegate, yes we do one on one training when the need arises, for example sometimes you need a person trained almost immediately, that’s when we step in.

When we are at your venue all we need is a room with sufficient space for the delegates to work comfortably in, in other words, with some elbow room, an electric power supply is obviously useful !!! We come with all other things necessary for a successful course, individual machines, comprehensive manuals and of course ultra competent training consultant.

This course is three days duration and is purely based on the PHP programming language, other similar courses include an additional two days interfacing MySQL with PHP, if that’s of interest find it in our comprehensive menu system or speak to one of our able training consultants who can guide you to making the correct choice of booking.

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