PHP Coding for Beginners
1. Introduction What You Will Learn in This Free PHP Course In this course, you’ll learn the most important skills for writing apps for the web: variables and syntax how to make your applications more intelligent by making decisions from …
Overview
1. Introduction
What You Will Learn in This Free PHP Course
In this course, you’ll learn the most important skills for writing apps for the web:
- variables and syntax
- how to make your applications more intelligent by making decisions from within your code
- arrays and looping over those arrays
- how to write your own functions
- how PHP treats the variables both inside and outside of those functions
- how to get and handle user input from both HTTP GET and POST requests
- parsing JSON
Later, you will learn how to build a web-based glossary application.
You will also learn:
- how to organize your project using controllers and FUSE
- how to read from and write to files
- how to build a simple authentication system
- how to use a MySQL database
Follow Along, Learn by Doing
I encourage you to follow along and to do exactly what I do on screen. This way you learn by doing.
To help, the PHP course GitHub repo contains the source for each exercise and sample project that was built throughout the course.
To follow along, you’ll need a copy of MAMP (macOS) or XAMPP (for Windows and Linux). Download them here:
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 1 Lesson
- 7 Hours
Instructor
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Course Features
- Lecture 1
- Quiz 0
- Duration 7 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes