Introduction

• The Origin of PHP
  
• PHP is better than Its alternatives
  
• Interfaces to External systems
  
• How PHP works with the Web Server
  
• Hardware and Software requirements
  
• What a PHP script looks like
  
• Saving data for later
  
• Receiving user input
  
• Repeating code

Basic PHP Development

• How PHP scripts work
  

• Basic PHP syntax
  
• PHP data types
  
• Displaying type information
  
• Testing for a specific data type
  
• Changing type with Set type
  
• Operators
  
• Variable manipulation
  
• Dynamic variables
  
• String in PHP

Control Structures

• The if statement
  

• Using the else clause with if statement
  
• The switch statement
  
• Using the ? operator
  
• The while statement
  
• The do while statement
  
• The for statement
  
• Breaking out of loops
  
• Nesting loops
  
• Summary

Functions

• What a function
  

• Defining a function
  
• Returning value from function
  
• User-defined functions
  
• Dynamic function calls
  
• Variable scope
  
• Accessing variable with the global statement
  
• Function calls with the static statement
  
• Setting default values for arguments
  
• Passing arguments to a function by value
  
• Passing arguments to a function by reference
  
• Testing for function existence Arrays
  
• Single-Dimensional Arrays
  
• Multidimensional Arrays
  
• Casting Arrays
  
• Associative arrays
  
• Accessing arrays
  
• Getting the size of an array
  
• Looping through an array
  
• Looping through an associative array
  
• Examining arrays
  
• Joining arrays
  
• Sorting arrays
  
• Sorting an associative arrays

Working With The File System

• Creating and deleting a file
  

• Reading and writing text files
  
• Working with directories in PHP
  
• Checking for existence of file
  
• Determining file size
  
• Opening a file for writing, reading, or appending
  
• Writing Data to the file
  
• Reading characters

Working With Forms

• Forms
  
• Super global variables
  
• The server array
  
• A script to acquire user input
  
• Importing user input
  
• Accessing user input
  
• Combine HTML and PHP code
  
• Using hidden fields
  
• Redirecting the user
  
• File upload and scripts

Working With Regular Expressions

• The basic regular expressions
  
• PCRE
  
• Matching patterns
  
• Finding matches
  
• Replace patterns
  
• Modifiers
  
• Breakup Strings

Classes And Objects

• Objects oriented programming
  
• Define a class
  
• An Object
  
• Creating an object
  
• Object properties
  
• Object methods
  
• Object constructors and destructors
  
• Class constants
  
• Class inheritance
  
• Abstract classes and methods
  
• Object serialization
  
• Checking for class and method existence
  
• Exceptions
  
• Iterators
  
• Summary

Introduction To Database

• Introduction to SQL
  
• Connecting to the MYSQL
  
• Selecting a database
  
• Finding out about errors
  
• Adding data to a table
  
• Acquiring the value
  
• Finding the number of rows
  
• Inserting data
  
• Entering and updating data
  
• Executing multiple queries

Cookies

• The anatomy of a cookie
  
• Setting a cookie with PHP
  
• Deleting a cookie
  
• Creating session cookie
  
• Working with the query string
  
• Creating query string

Session

• What is session
  
• Starting a session
  
• Working with session variables
  
• Destroying session
  
• Passing session Ids
  
• Encoding and decoding session variables

Disk Access, I/O, Math And Mail

• HTTP connections
  
• Writing to the browser
  
• Getting input from forms
  
• Output buffering
  
• Session handling
  
• Regular expression
  
• Common math
  
• Random numbers
  
• File upload
  
• File download
  
• Environment variables
  
• E-mail in PHP

Joomla (Content Management System and Web Application Framework)

• Detail discussion of component, module, mambots and complete
• workflow of Joomla
  
• How to create component & module in Joomla
  
• Customization of existing component and modules
  
• Overview of Joomla 1.5

Smarty (Library For Creating HTML Templates)

• Discussion of smarty
  
• Discussion of variable and function and its uses
  
• Practical application of smarty

PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository)

• Discuss framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components
  
• Discussion of pear
  
• Practical application of pear in combination with smarty

Cake PHP (Rapid Development Framework)

• Discussion of cake PHP framework
  
• Model, View, Controller Architecture
  
• View Helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML Forms and more
  
• Built-in Validation
  
• Application Scaffolding
  
• Application and CRUD code generation via Bake
  
• Access Control Lists
  
• Data Sanitization
  
• Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
  
• Flexible View Caching
  
• Practical application of cake PHP framework

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

• Introduction to AJAX
  

• Introduction to XMLHttpRequest Object
  
• Method and Properties of XMLHttpRequest
  
• Application of AJAX in web application

osCommerce (Open Source Shopping Cart)

• Introduction to Shopping Cart
  
• Introduction to osCommerce opensource
  
• Discussion of various module of osCommerce
  
• Customization of existing template and module