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    Com311 - Lesson 1

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    PHP

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    Advanced Web

    Development

    ICT311(3)

    Prerequisites to PHP

    HTML
    CSS
    Java Script
    MySQL

    Recommended Reading
    http://php.net
    http://www.w3schools.com/php/

    Web Development
    Web development is a work involved in developing a
    web site
    Developing the simplest static single page to the most
    complex web sites.
    Ex-: web-based internet applications, electronic
    businesses, social network services, etc.
    web development commonly refers web engineering,
    web design, web content development, clientside/server-side scripting, web server and network
    security configuration, and e-commerce development.

    Contd
    Among web professionals, "web
    development" usually refers to the main
    non-design aspects of building web sites:
    writing markup and coding.
    Most recently Web development has come
    to mean the creation of content
    management systems or CMS.

    Static Vs Dynamic
    Find what are the differences of static
    & dynamic web development.

    Widely used Languages for


    Dev.

    JavaScript
    Java
    Python
    CSS
    PHP
    Ruby
    C++
    C
    C#
    Objective C
    Perl
    Etc

    Widely used Dev. Tools


    Open Source
    Eclipse, NetBeans, Notepad++, Visual
    Studio Code, etc

    Freeware
    Visual Studio Express, Google Wed
    Designer, Html-Kit, etc

    Commercial
    Adobe Dreamweaver, Komodo IDE,
    Visual Studio, etc

    What is PHP?

    Hypertext Processor
    Open source Server-side Language
    Widely used for web development
    Easy to embed into HTML

    Example
    <html>
    <head>
    <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <?phpecho'<p>HelloWorld</p>';?>

    </body>
    </html>

    PHP Routing Schema

    What can PHP do?

    Collect form data


    Generate dynamic content
    Handle files
    Send and receive cookies
    Command line scripting
    Create desktop application
    Etc.

    Setting up PHP
    1. Install a server (Apache, IIS)
    2. Install PHP
    3. Install database (MySQL, MariaDB,
    Oracle, Microsoft SQL, etc)

    Configuration on Windows
    Download all-in-one package
    (WAMP, XAMPP)

    Follow the installation instruction


    while installation.
    Start the server
    Test running
    IP Address (127.0.0.1, localhost)

    PHP Syntax

    <?php
    // php code here

    ?>
    .php extension used to save PHP file.
    Ex-: index.php, about-us.php

    Example
    <?php
    echo I am learning PHP;
    ?>
    <?php
    echo $_SERVER[HTTP_USER_AGENT];
    ?>
    <?php
    echo $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR];
    ?>

    Variables
    Variable refers as a data holder or
    container.
    It can store data and can reuse again
    and again.
    Data can be a number or a string.
    $no = 1;
    $userName = Bernard;

    Rules to define a PHP


    variable
    Start with a $ sign.
    Must start with a letter or an
    underscore.
    Name must be unique.
    Ex-: $age;
    $name;
    $myNumber;
    $Name;

    Assign value to PHP variable


    Add assignment operator after variable name.
    php use equal sign (=) as assignment operator

    Assign data after = sign.


    String values must be enclosed with
    .
    Use ; to define end of the line.
    Ex-: $age = 10;
    $name = Amal;
    $myNumber= 156;
    $Name = Brian;

    or

    Apply Comments in PHP


    PHP comment use to inactive block of
    codes.
    It is not executed when run the PHP file.
    Syntax
    // this is single line comment
    /* this is
    multiline comment
    */

    Concatenation in PHP
    Used to combine strings together.
    Dot sign (.) use as concatenate
    operator.
    Ex-:
    echo "php" . " " . "is" . " " . "easy" . " " . "to". " ".
    "learn";
    $age = 60;
    echo "I'm" ." ". $age ." ". "years old!";

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