Web Development

PHP Overview & Installation

• What is PHP?
• History of PHP
• Why choose PHP?
• Installation overview
• Installing WAMP Server
• Finding the document root
• Configuring PHP
• Configuring MySQL
• Text editor
• Embedding PHP Code on a page
• Outputting dynamic text
• The operation trail
• Inserting code comments

Exploring Data Types

• Variables
• Strings
• String functions
• Integer & Floating point numbers
• Arrays
• Numeric Array
• Associative Array
• Array functions
• Booleans
• Null and empty
• Type juggling and casting
• Constants

Control Structures: Logical Expressions & Loops

• If statements
• Else and elseif statements
• Logical Operators
• Switch statements
• While loop
• For loop
• Foreach loop
• Continue
• Break
• Understanding array pointers

User-Defined Functions

• Defining functions?
• Function arguments
• Returning values from a function
• Multiple return values
• Scope and global variables
• Setting default argument values

Debugging

• Common problems
• Warnings and erros
• Debugging and trouble shooting

Building Web Pages with PHP

• Links and URLs
• Using GET values
• Encoding GET values
• Encoding for HTML
• Including and requiring files
• Modifying headers
• Page redirection
• Output buffering

Working with Forms and Form Data

• Building forms
• Detecting form submissions
• Single page form processing
• Validating form values
• Problems with validation logic
• Displaying validation errors
• Custom validation functions
• Single page form with validations

Working with Cookies and Sessions

• Working with cookies
• Setting cookie values
• Reading cookies values
• Unsettling cookies values
• Working with sessions

MySQL Basics

• MySQL introduction
• Creating a database
• Creating a database table
• CRUD in MySQL
• Populating a MySQL database
• Relational database tables
• Populating the relational table

Using PHP to Access MySQL

• Database APIs in PHP
• Connecting to MySQL with PHP
• Retrieving data from MySQL
• Working with retrieved data
• Creating records with PHP
• Updating and deleting records with PHP
• SQL injection
• Escaping strings for MySQL
• Introducing prepared statements

Building a Content Management System (CMS)

• Blueprinting the application
• Building the CMS database
• Establishing your work area
• Creating and styling the first page
• Making page assets reusable
• Connecting the application to database

Using site navigation to Choose Content

• Adding pages to the navigation subjects
• Refactoring the navigation
• Selecting pages from the navigation
• Highlighting the current page
• Moving the navigation to a function

Application CRUD

• Finding a subject in the database
• Refactoring the page selection
• Creating a new subject form
• Processing form values and adding subjects
• Passing data in the session
• Validating form values
• Creating an edit subject form
• Using single-page submission
• Deleting a subject
• Cleaning up
• Assignment: Pages CRUD
• Assignment results: Pages CRUD

Buliding the Public Area

• The public appearance
• Using a context for conditional code
• Adding a default behaviour
• The public content area
• Protecting page visibility

Regulating Page Access

• User authentication overview
• Admin CRUD
• Encrypting passwords
• Salting passwords
• Adding password encryption to CMS
• New PHP password functions
• Creating login system
• Checking for authorization
• Creating a logout page

Introduction to jQuery

• Setting up the development environment
• What is jQuery?
• Your first jQuery enabled page
• Selectors filters
• Creating and modifying page content
• Handling events
• Animating page content
• Working with AJAX

Working with Page Content

• Overview of selectors and filters
• Basic selectors
• Basic filters
• Advanced selectors
• Attribute filters
• Advanced filters
• Traversing documents with jQuery
• jQuery statement chaining
• Programming challenge
• Solution

Manipulating Page Content

• Creating content
• Inserting page content
• Altering page content
• Manipulating attributes
• Working with CSS
• Embedding custom data
• Programming challenge
• Solution

jQuery Events

• jQuery event handling features
• Binding and unbinding events
• Event helper features
• Using the jQuery event object
• Programming challenge
• Solution

Animations and Effects

• Introduction to jQuery animations
• Hiding and showing elements
• Fading elements
• Sliding elements
• Custom animations

AJAX Operations

• jQuery and AJAX
• Convenience functions
• Working with different data types
• Using global AJAX handlers
• Programming challenge
• Solution

Introduction to Ajax

• What is Ajax?
• Requests
• Responses
• States and events
• Load remote text
• Load remote JSON
• Using jQuery

PHP Server

• Detect Ajax requests
• Respond with HTML partials
• Respond with JSON data
• Update page on change

Ajax Button

• Create a favourite button
• Send button Ajax request
• Process button Ajax request
• Handle button Ajax response
• Mark favourites on page load
• Create an un favourite button

Ajax Form Submission

• Create the form
• Gather form data
• Handles form errors
• Add a loading spinner
• Disable form button
• Allow fallback to HTML
• Prevent default

Infinite Scrolling

• Create a page of items
• Process a load request
• Append HTML results
• Use a data attribute
• Trigger Ajax on scroll
• Prevent multiple requests

Search Autosuggest

• Create a text input
• Style suggestions
• Send an autosuggest Ajax request
• Calculate results
• Format suggestions with JSON