JavaScript Course Gauteng

JavaScript Course Subjects

• Why choose PHP/MySQL/Apache
• PHP’s purpose and capabilities
• Server Side Vs. Client Side Scripting
• What PHP looks like – Basic structure
• Setting your development environment up with your testing server
• Testing PHP installations in your server
• Which servers can use php
• Where to write the php code and using which applications
• Language Basics

Structure and Syntax

• Data Types in PHP
• Using Variables and Constants
• Processing data using operators
• Understanding Arrays
• Working with combinations of Data Types, Variables and Arrays
• Arrays

Array types

• Multi-dimensional arrays
• Getting data out of arrays
• Array operations
• addition
• comparing
• Counting
• Searching
• Flipping/Reversing
• Deleting elements within an array
• More Arrays

Sorting arrays

• sort
• asort
• ksort
• natsort
• shuffle
• key sort
• Stacks and Queues
• push/pop
• shift/unshift
• Sets
• array_diff
• array_intersect
• Strings

Escape sequences

• Variables and string combined
• Escaping literal values
• Length
• translation
• comparison
• searching
• matching
• search and replace
• Giving your code life – Control Structures

Conditional decision making – if, else, and elseif

• True, false, and evaluation of expressions
• Multiple and nested conditions
• Short Circuit Evaluation – break and continue
• The ‘?’ Operator
• Decision making using the switch statement
• Iterations using while, do…while, for and for each loops
• Iterating through an array
• Terminating code using exit, return, and die
• Creating Dynamic Web Content

Embedding PHP in Web pages

• Retrieving user input through forms, using the GET and POST method
• Handling the date and time
• Dynamically including code using include and require
• mail and php
• Cookies
• Using PHP’s built-in functions

Mathematical functions

• Generating random numbers
• Creating custom functions

Why write your own functions

• Syntax for defining a function
• Variable scope, and the global statement
• Adding in function parameters
• Return values from functions
• Objects and Classes

Basic OOP

• Constructors/Destructors
• Visibility & Scope
• Static
• Constants
• Introduction to Databases

Why use a database – The three-tier architecture approach

• Introducing MySQL and PHPMyAdmin
• Understanding the database structure
• Creating a simple database
• Basic SQL commands
• Making PHP and MySQL work for each other

Connecting to the database

• Displaying database content through PHP
• Inserting and deleting data into the Database
• Updating data in the Database
• Security considerations