PHP Fundamentals
Get started with the world's most widely-used server-side programming language, PHP. This course will teach you the foundations of PHP programming on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).
What you'll learn
This course is designed to give you the foundation for becoming a productive PHP developer in a LAMP environment. You'll learn the syntax of PHP and the simplicities of form processing, including functions, arrays, classes, operators, database integration, and more.
Table of contents
- Overview 1m
- About Arrays 1m
- Indexed Arrays (Demo) 3m
- Associative Arrays (Demo) 3m
- array_key_exists() (Demo) 4m
- in_array() (Demo) 3m
- array_push() (Demo) 4m
- array_pop() (Demo) 2m
- unset() (Demo) 3m
- Sorting Arrays (Demo) 5m
- count() (Demo) 3m
- Foreach Loop (Demo) 3m
- Multi-dimensional Array (Demo) 3m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 1m
- Creating a Simple Class (Demo) 1m
- Creating an Object (Demo) 2m
- Creating Properties (Demo) 3m
- Accessing Properties (Demo) 2m
- Creating Constants (Demo) 2m
- Accessing Constants (Demo) 2m
- Creating Methods (Demo) 2m
- $this (Demo) 2m
- Accessing Methods (Demo) 2m
- Constructors (Demo) 3m
- Initial Parameter Passing (Demo) 3m
- Inheritance (Demo) 5m
- Protected Properties (Demo) 4m
- Private Properties (Demo) 3m
- Static Properties & Methods (Demo) 2m
- Scope Resolution Operator :: (Demo) 3m
- Include File (Demo) 3m
- Require File (Demo) 2m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 1m
- Arithmetic Operators (Demo) 3m
- Incrementing/Decrementing Operators (Demo) 3m
- Assignment Operators (Demo) 2m
- String Operator (Demo) 1m
- Comparison Operators (Demo) 8m
- Spaceship Operator (Demo) 3m
- Logical Operators (Demo) 7m
- If Statement (Demo) 5m
- Else If (Demo) 4m
- Switch Statement (Demo) 7m
- Ternary Operator (Demo) 4m
- Null Coalesce Operator (Demo) 3m
- While Loop (Demo) 4m
- For Loop (Demo) 4m
- Alternate Syntax for Control Structures (Demo) 2m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 1m
- Possible Databases 1m
- PDO vs. MySQli 2m
- Setting up MySQL in Linux (Demo) 4m
- Setting up MySQL on Windows (Demo) 6m
- Creating a Database and Table with phpMyAdmin (Demo) 4m
- Connecting to Database (Demo) 5m
- Close Database Connection (Demo) 1m
- Executing a Query - Delete, Update, Insert (Demo) 4m
- Grabbing Inserted Id (Demo) 2m
- Select Data From Database (Demo) 5m
- Prepared Statement Example 5m
- PDO Example 2m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 1m
- Setup Web Site Location - Linux (Demo) 5m
- Setup Web Site Location - Windows (Demo) 2m
- Web Site Structure and Layout (Demo) 1m
- Shorten Syntax with HTML (Demo) 4m
- $_GET (Demo) 3m
- $_POST (Demo) 2m
- Form Validation (Demo) 6m
- session_start() (Demo) 3m
- $_SESSION (Demo) 4m
- session_destroy() (Demo) 4m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Jill is a freelance software developer who works on all things technical and loves it. Her main development focus has been on web applications utilizing Microsoft technologies or the LAMP stack depending on her client's needs. Jill enjoyed her time teaching at the local college, but now is focused on teaching students via her Pluralsight courses. And, if you were wondering, Han shot first.