PHP Introduction

PHP Fundamentals
$595/ 2 days / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST

A Live Instructor-led Online Class with Mary Gillen

Learn how to use PHP, an open-source, powerful server-side scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive websites. In this hands-on course, you’ll increase your efficiency, consistency, and accuracy by storing your content in a database. You'll use PHP to connect your site to the database.

Goals
Script dynamic and interactive websites with PHP

Audience
Web designers and developers who want to extend their skill set beyond static HTML sites.

Prerequisites
To gain the most from this class you should know HTML and database basics. Familiarity with SQL statements is helpful but not required.

Recommended Reading
Ben Forta’s slim Learn SQL in 10 Minutes

Objectives
- Download and install PHP on your Web server
- Use PHP to respond to HTML form submissions
- Send e-mail messages with PHP
- Use SQL to query databases with PHP
- Create a simple content management system so you can add, update, and delete information from a MySQL database
- Manage state information with cookies and sessions

Next Steps
Cascading Style Sheets(CSS): Fundamentals