Course Outline for PHP & MySQL

PHP301: Basic
Duration: 4 days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
The course is aim for participants who already know at least the basic of HTML and has
done some programming in modern programming language before.

PREREQUISITES:
Web development experienced with either ASP/DSP and understanding of RDBMS and
fair   knowledge  of  SQL commands.    The  participants  should  also  be  conversant  with
HTML and general programming logic.

MODULES:

1. Introduction to HTML Scripting

• Basic HTML Document Tags
• Text Structure and Formatting
• Including Images
• Linking multiple HTML pages
• Creating Forms
• Working with tables

2. Introduction to PHP
• PHP's purpose and capabilities
• Server Side vs. Client Side Scripting
• How PHP looks like – Basic Construct
• Testing PHP installations in your server

3. Language Basics
• Lexical Structure and Syntax
• Data Types in PHP
• Using Variables and Constants
• Understanding Arrays
• Working with combinations of Data Types, Variables and Arrays
• Processing data using operators

4. Creating Dynamic Web Content

• Embedding PHP in Webpages
• Retrieving user input through forms
• Retrieving user input using the GET method
• Getting the date and time
• Dynamically including code using include and require
5. 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 loops
• Iterations using do...while loops
• Iterations using for loops
• Iterations using for each loops
• Terminating code using exit (), return, and die ()

6. Using PHP's built-in functions

• Mathematical functions
• Working with Strings
• Generating random numbers
• Learning more about built-in functions

7. 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

8. Introduction to Database
• What is a database
• Why use a database – The three-tier architecture approach
• Introducing MySQL and PHPMyAdmin
• Understanding the database structure
• Creating a simple database
• Basic SQL commands

9. Making PHP and MySQL work for each other

• Connecting to the database
• Displaying database content through PHP
• Adding data into the Database
• Deleting from the Database
• Updating and modifying data in the Database

10. Putting it all into practice – Lab project

• Step-by-step creation of a simple web application that allows user to view data in a
formatted page, and interactively add, edit, and delete the database content

The Malaysian Public Sector
Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC)
MAMPU
http://opensource.mampu.gov.my