Learn By Example: PHP For Dynamic Websites

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: You, This Course, and Us!

Lecture 1: You, This Course, and Us!

Chapter 2: Installing and setting up PHP

Lecture 1: What is PHP?

Lecture 2: Installing PHP (Windows)

Lecture 3: Installing PHP (Mac)

Chapter 3: Basic Constructs In The PHP Language

Lecture 1: Example 1 : Ensure PHP is installed and running on your server

Lecture 2: Example 2 : PHP outputs HTML

Lecture 3: Example 3 : Variables – containers of data

Lecture 4: Example 4 : Data Types – strings, integers, booleans, doubles

Lecture 5: Example 5 : Decisions using If-Else and Switch Statements

Lecture 6: Example 6 : Strings – single quotes, double quotes, what's the difference?

Lecture 7: Example 7 : Logical Operators

Lecture 8: Example 8 : Introduction to Web Forms

Lecture 9: Example 8 : The GET Request

Lecture 10: Example 8 : The POST Request and differences between GET and POST

Chapter 4: Web Forms, Validating And Sanitizing User Input, Mitigating Security Risks

Lecture 1: Example 8 : Web Form Processing

Lecture 2: Example 9 : Superglobals

Lecture 3: Example 10 : The htmlspecialchars() function and XSS mitigation

Lecture 4: Example 10 : Sanitizing user input

Lecture 5: Example 11 : Validating user input

Lecture 6: Example 11 : Putting it all together

Lecture 7: Configure sending email using a Gmail account (Windows)

Lecture 8: Configure sending email using a Gmail account (Mac)

Lecture 9: Example 12 : Write code to send mail

Chapter 5: Intermediate Constructs In The PHP Language

Lecture 1: Example 13 : Introduction to arrays

Lecture 2: Example 13 : Associative arrays

Lecture 3: Example 13 : Multidimensional arrays

Lecture 4: Example 14 : For, While And Do-While Loops

Lecture 5: Example 14 : Break And Continue – P2

Lecture 6: Example 15 : Introduction to functions

Lecture 7: Example 15 : Pass by Value, Pass By Reference, Default Values

Lecture 8: Example 16 : Local Variables, Variable Hiding

Lecture 9: Example 16 : Global and Static Variables

Chapter 6: PHP and MySQL – A Well Oiled Integration

Lecture 1: MySQL Introduction

Lecture 2: Enabling MySQL and using phpmyadmin (Windows)

Lecture 3: Installing MySQL (Mac)

Lecture 4: Using MySQL Workbench (Mac)

Lecture 5: Getting PHP and MySQL to talk to each other (Mac)

Lecture 6: Example 17 : Connecting, Running Queries, Closing a Connection

Lecture 7: Example 18 : Creating a table, Inserting rows

Lecture 8: Example 19 : Running select queries

Lecture 9: Example 20 : prepared statements

Chapter 7: Cookies And Sessions – Stuff Which Makes PHP Cool

Lecture 1: Example 21 : Introduction to cookies

Lecture 2: Example 21 : Setting and accessing cookies

Lecture 3: Example 21 : Deleting a cookie

Lecture 4: Example 22 : Introduction to sessions

Lecture 5: Example 22 : Creating and using sessions

Lecture 6: Example 22 : Destroying sessions

Lecture 7: Example 23 : Passing session ids automatically without cookies

Lecture 8: Example 23 : Working with sessions without cookies

Chapter 8: Build A Login Authentication System From The Ground Up

Lecture 1: Steps to build a login authentication system

Lecture 2: Example 24 : Including files for code reuse

Lecture 3: Example 25 : Add signed up users to the Users table

Lecture 4: Example 25 : The sign up form and protection against Cross Site Request Forgery

Lecture 5: Example 26 : Logging in and authenticating a user

Lecture 6: Example 26 : Redirecting to a login success page

Lecture 7: Example 27 : Checking whether a user is already logged in

Lecture 8: Example 28 : Logout

Chapter 9: Advanced Constructs in PHP: Object Oriented Programming

Lecture 1: What's the big deal about classes?

Lecture 2: Example 29 : Meet your very first class

Lecture 3: Example 29 continued: Blueprints and houses, classes and objects

Lecture 4: Example 30 : The constructor and the destructor

Lecture 5: Example 31 : Public and private access types

Lecture 6: Example 32 : Inheritance and modeling is-a relationships

Lecture 7: Example 32 : Working with base and derived classes

Lecture 8: Example 33 : The protected access type

Lecture 9: Example 34 : An object can have multiple forms, polymorphism

Lecture 10: Example 35 : Final and abstract

Lecture 11: Example 36 : Trust static variables to be strange even in classes!

Lecture 12: Example 37 : Constants, as opposed to variables

Lecture 13: Example 38 : Interfaces, the contract which a class adheres to

Chapter 10: Some random useful stuff

Lecture 1: Example 39 : Filters are more powerful than you first imagined

Lecture 2: Example 40 : Headers are metadata about browser content

Chapter 11: Working with files

Lecture 1: Example 41 : Read and file and display it's contents

Lecture 2: Example 42 : Common file functions

Lecture 3: Example 43 : More flexibility with files fopen(), fread() and fclose()

Lecture 4: Example 44 : Writing to a file using fwrite()

Lecture 5: Example 45 : Uploading a file to the server