PHP for Beginners to Advanced Programming and Techniques
This section is dedicated to programming in PHP 5, this includes walk-throughs, tutorials, and videos. There are four main sections to this area, but you must be registered in order to view the content.
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The four sections are:
- PHP for Beginners
- Intermediate PHP
- Advanced PHP
- PHP Environments and IDEs
PHP for Beginners
This area is intended for everyone that is new to PHP. The sections are broken down into separate categories:
- An introduction to PHP’s variables and operators.
- The rest of the PHP operators (there are many), and simple form processing.
- Basic control structures explained.
- Arrays, PHP array functions, and what it all means.
- Everything you’re ever likely to need to know about dealing with external files from a PHP script.
- All about functions, arguments, passing by reference, globals and scope.
- A gentle introduction to object oriented programming in PHP 4 and PHP 5.
- All about connecting to a MySQL database from PHP, using the mysql or mysqli extensions.
- Introducing another database: SQLite.
- Sessions and cookies – how to keep track of visitors to your site.
- An introduction to PHP’s easiest method for dealing with XML.
- Basic error handling.
- A primer in basic security.
- Putting the pieces together – a first Web application.
- Creating a simple RSS news aggregator.
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Intermediate PHP
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Advanced PHP
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PHP Environments and IDEs
This section covers the most commonly used PHP environments and some of what we have evaluated as "must have" IDEs for PHP development.