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.