PHP for Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction: How to Get the Most Out of the Course

Chapter 2: Software Installation and Setup

Lecture 1: Recommended Software Overview

Lecture 2: Install XAMPP on Windows

Lecture 3: Install XAMPP on MAC OS X

Lecture 4: Install XAMPP on Ubuntu Linux

Lecture 5: Addendum: Visual Studio Code now the recommended editor

Lecture 6: Install Atom on Windows

Lecture 7: Install Atom on MAC OS X

Lecture 8: Install Atom on Ubuntu Linux

Chapter 3: Variables

Lecture 1: Write Your First PHP Code: Display a Message in Your Web Browser

Lecture 2: Variables in PHP: What They are, How to Create Them, and How to Name Them

Lecture 3: Basic Variable Types: Strings and Numbers

Lecture 4: Basic Variable Types: Boolean and Null

Lecture 5: Perform Operations on Variables: Operators

Lecture 6: Strings: Using Single or Double Quotes and Variable Interpolation

Chapter 4: Arrays

Lecture 1: Introduction to Arrays: Create an Array and Access its Elements

Lecture 2: Assign Manual Array Indexes and Create Associative Arrays

Lecture 3: Create and Access Multidimensional Arrays

Lecture 4: Process Each Element of an Array: foreach Loops

Lecture 5: Process the value and index of each array element using a foreach loop

Chapter 5: Control structures

Lecture 1: Run Code Conditionally: the if Construct

Lecture 2: Compare One Value to another: Comparison Operators

Lecture 3: Run Code Multiple Times Based on a Condition: While Loops

Lecture 4: Run Code a Specific Number Of Times: For Loops

Lecture 5: Add More Conditions to an If Statement Using Elseif

Lecture 6: Perform Different Actions Based on Different Conditions: The Switch Statement

Chapter 6: An Introduction to HTML

Lecture 1: The Language of Web Pages: an Introduction To Html

Lecture 2: Use Head and Body Elements to Structure An Html Document

Lecture 3: Structure the Content of your Page Using Heading and Paragraph Elements

Lecture 4: Give Text Emphasis or Importance Using the em and Strong Elements

Lecture 5: Display Ordered and Unordered Lists of Items

Lecture 6: Insert Images Into an Html Document

Lecture 7: Add a Link from One Page to Another Using a Hyperlink

Lecture 8: Add Semantic Structure to The Body of an Html Document

Chapter 7: Mixing PHP and HTML

Lecture 1: Create Dynamic Content: Mixing HTML and PHP

Lecture 2: Use PHP Control Structures Mixed with HTML

Lecture 3: Make HTML More Readable: Use Whitespace and Comments

Lecture 4: Addendum: changes to the available resources in the following video

Lecture 5: Make PHP Easier To Maintain: Use Comments and Coding Standards

Chapter 8: An Introduction to Databases

Lecture 1: Where to Store Data in a Dynamic Website: An Introduction to Databases

Lecture 2: Access the Database Server Using phpMyAdmin And Create a Database

Lecture 3: Use Tables to Store Structured Data in a Database

Lecture 4: Select Some Data from The Database: An Introduction to Sql

Lecture 5: Using Indexes: Make Queries Faster and Order the Result Set

Lecture 6: Connect to the Database from PHP

Lecture 7: Query the Database from PHP And Get the Results

Lecture 8: Combine PHP and HTML to Show a Formatted List of Articles

Chapter 9: Multiple Pages in PHP

Lecture 1: Add a New Page to Show a Single Article

Lecture 2: Passing Data in the URL: Send the Article ID Using the Query String

Lecture 3: Avoid SQL Injection: Validate the ID Passed in from the Query String

Lecture 4: Don't Repeat Yourself: Extract Repeated Code to a Separate File

Lecture 5: Addendum: changes to the code in the following video

Lecture 6: Organise and Secure Access to the Included Files

Chapter 10: An Introduction to HTML Forms

Lecture 1: Getting Data From the User: An Introduction to Forms in HTML

Lecture 2: Change the Method the Form Uses to Send its Data: get vs post

Lecture 3: Addendum: datetime and datetime-local input types

Lecture 4: Get Different Types of Data from the User: Basic Input Types

Lecture 5: Access Data from the form on the Server

Lecture 6: Add a Multi-line Text Control: the textarea Element

Lecture 7: Present a Fixed List of Options: the Select Element

Lecture 8: Toggle an Option on or off: checkboxes

Lecture 9: Select only one Option from a List: Radio Buttons

Lecture 10: Add an Accessible Caption to Each Input: the Label Element

Lecture 11: Make the Form Easier to Use: fieldsets and placeholders

Lecture 12: Common form Control Attributes: readonly, disabled and autofocus

Lecture 13: Validate Input Using HTML5 form Validation

Chapter 11: Inserting Data Into the Database from PHP

Lecture 1: Addendum: the datetime-local input type

Lecture 2: Add a Form to Insert a New Article

Lecture 3: Insert Data Into the Database: The SQL INSERT INTO Statement

Lecture 4: Insert a New Article Into the Database and Get the ID of the New Record

Lecture 5: How SQL Injection Attacks Work

Lecture 6: Avoid SQL Injection Attacks: Escape Input

Lecture 7: Avoid SQL Injection Attacks: Use Prepared Statements