Learn PHP in 24 Hours

📖 The Scoop

PHP is a versatile language based on object-oriented programming concept. It is practiced by a huge community. PHP is the least complex and makes better applications if used in the right context. It supports some great frameworks like Zend, Laravel, and Symphony.

Most beginners find PHP difficult because they either spend a long time learning all the things, or they are using poorly crafted online courses. To make PHP easier to learn, we extracted some niche topic of PHP and compiled them in simple to understand format in this small e-book. On top of it, the examples are made more interactive to help understand some advanced PHP topics. The best part of this e-book is the price is almost negligible.

With this edition, beginners will learn to interpret PHP language in the nick of time. They will able to build a basic application on HTML, CSS, etc. without any peer guidance or external course. All the major concept of PHP are covered in this e-book. Once you know the tips and tricks, the book can be a guide for building Web-based services for mobile devices. You will be able to gain more knowledge about PHP functions and MySQL through it.

Besides having limited coding language, you will become someone having a deeper understanding of PHP in no time. With this e-book, you soon can become the part of these huge base of PHP users like Facebook, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Wordpress, and so on.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.      What is a scripting language?

2.     Scripting VS Programming Language

3.     What does PHP stand for?

4.     Php Syntax

5.     What is PHP used for & Market share

6.     PHP vs ASP.NET VS JSP VS CFML

Chapter 2: Introduction to XAMPP

1.      What is XAMPP?

2.     How to Download and Install XAMPP

3.     XAMPP Control Panel

4.     What is the best PHP IDE?

5.     Introduction to Netbeans IDE

6.     Creating a new PHP project using the Netbeans IDE

Chapter 3: Data Types, Variables and Operators

1.      Data Types

2.     Variable

3.     Variable Type Casting

4.     Constant

5.     Operators

Chapter 4: Comments, Include & Require

1.      Comments

2.     Include & PHP Include_once

3.     Require & PHP require_once

4.     include vs require

Chapter 5: Arrays

1.      What is an Array?

2.     Numeric Arrays

3.     Associative Array

4.     Multi-dimensional arrays

5.     Arrays: Operators

Chapter 6: Control structures

1.      What is a control structure?

2.     IF Else

3.     PHP Loop

4.     While Loop

5.     Switch Case

Chapter 7: Strings

1.      What is a string?

2.     Create Strings Using Double quotes

3.     Heredoc

4.     Nowdoc

5.     String functions

Chapter 8: Functions

1.      What is a Function?

2.     Built in Functions

3.     String Functions

4.     Numeric Functions

5.     Date Function

6.     Why use User Defined Functions?

Chapter 9: Forms

1.      What is form?

2.     Create a form

3.     POST method

4.     GET method

5.     GET vs POST Methods

6.     Processing the registration form data

Chapter 10: Cookies & Sessions

1.      What is Cookies?

2.     Creating Cookies

3.     Retrieving the Cookie value

4.     What is a Session?

5.     Creating a Session

Chapter 11: File Processing

1.      What is a File?

2.     File_exists Function

3.     Fopen Function

4.     Fwrite Function

5.     Fgets Function

6.     File_get_contents Function

Chapter 12: Error Handling

1.      What is an Exception?

2.     PHP Error handling

3.     Error handling examples

4.     Difference between Errors and Exception

5.     Multiple Exceptions

Chapter 13: Regular Expression

1.      What is a regular expressions?

2.     Preg_match

3.     Preg_split

4.     Preg_replace

5.     Meta characters

6.     Explaining the pattern

Chapter 14: MAIL

1.      What is PHP mail?

2.     Why/When to use the PHP mail

3.     Simple Transmission Protocol

4.     Sanitizing email user inputs

5.     Secure Mail

Chapter 15: Database Access

1.      mysql_connect function

2.     mysql_select_db function

3.     mysql_query function

4.     mysql_num_rows function

5.     mysql_fetch_array function

6.     Data Access Object PDO

Chapter 16: OOPS

1.      What is UML?

2.     What is object oriented programming?

3.     Creating a class

4.     Inheritance implementation

5.     Using the classes

6.     Testing our application

Chapter 17: Date

1.      What is Date Function?

2.     What is a TimeStamp?

3.     PHP set Timezone Programmatically

4.     Mktime Function

5.     PHP Date function reference

Chapter 18: Security Functions

1.      What is a Security?

2.     Potential security threats

3.     PHP Application Security Best Practices

4.     filter_var function

5.     PHP Md5 and PHP sha1

Chapter 19: XML,DOM, Parsers

1.      What is XML?

2.     What is DOM?

3.     XML Parsers

4.     Creating the index page that reads the XML document

5.     Creating an XML document using PHP

Chapter 20: Sample Project

1.      Opinion Polls

2.     Database

3.     Coding our application

4.     Testing our application

Chapter 21: PHP with Ajax

1.      What is JavaScript?

2.     What is XML?

3.     What is Ajax?

4.     Creating an Ajax application

Chapter 22: Frameworks

1.      What is a framework?

2.     Introduction to PHP MVC framework

3.     Porting the opinion poll application to CodeIgniter

4.     Database configuration settings

5.     Creating Our Model

6.     Creating Our Views

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