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PHP Advanced

Description

If you are familiar with the basics of programming and want to move to the next level, this class is for you! In this course we will explore the object-oriented side of PHP. You will design and use objects in your PHP applications. We will cover security, networking, PEAR, XML and Ajax. We will cover working with databases and techniques for developing web-based applications. Students will need access to a webserver that supports PHP and a database.

Objectives

Students will explore PHP features to work with developing modular web applications.
Students will write PHP code to store session data in the database and create an authentication process for their websites.
Students will develop and use PHP classes.
Students will create more complex PHP classes.
Students will use PHP to communicate across the network and configure their web server to work with PHP.
Students will run PHP scripts from the server command line.
Students will write PHP code using PEAR.
Students will create PHP pages that use Ajax.
Students will write PHP to code to work with XML data.
Students will create a final PHP application to show what they have learned in this course.

Book

PHP 5 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide

Author: Larry Ullman
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0321376013

Lesson 1: Developing Web Applications

Read Chapters 1 and 2 in the book.

Lesson 2: Advanced Database Techniques and Security

Read Chapters 3 and 4.

Review Chapter 5 for an application using what we have learned so far.

Lesson 3: Basic Object-Oriented Programming

Read Chapter 6

Lesson 4: Advanced Object-Oriented Programming

Read Chapters 7 and 8

Lesson 5: Networking and the Web Server

Read Chapters 9 and 10 (Not all the topics in chapter 10 will work on all systems.)

Lesson 6: Using the Command Line

Read Chapter 11

Lesson 7: Using PEAR

Read Chapter 12

Lesson 8: Ajax

Read Chapter 13

Lesson 9: XML

Read Chapter 14

Lesson 10: Putting it All Together

Review the chapters covered in this book.