PHP For Dynamic Websites : Learn By Example

About Course

• Super-practical PHP: Learn, by example, how to build a smart website with cookies, sessions, login authentication, MySQL integration, Object Oriented PHP and lots more!

  • This course is super-practical: packed with knowledge you can put to use right away, while still giving you a good foundational understanding of web programming, not just PHP.

  • Its about building smart websites: these days, its not OK for a website just to look snappy - login, cookies and  sessions are considered necessities, not luxuries anymore

  • In this course, we will learn by example. Each example is self-contained, has its source code attached, and gets across a specific PHP use-case. Each example is simple by itself, but they come together as building blocks to build complex use cases.

Curriculam

• Section 1: You, This Course, and Us!
  	Lecture 1	You, This Course, and Us!	02:19
  Section 2: Installing and setting up PHP
  	Lecture 2	What is PHP?	19:07
  	Lecture 3	Installing PHP (Windows)	09:45
  	Lecture 4	Installing PHP (Mac)	11:55
  Section 3: Basic Constructs In The PHP Language
  	Lecture 5	Example 1 : Ensure PHP is installed and running on your server	05:05
  	Lecture 6	Example 2 : PHP outputs HTML	08:43
  	Lecture 7	Example 3 : Variables - containers of data	07:52
  	Lecture 8	Example 4 : Data Types - strings, integers, booleans, doubles	09:32
  	Lecture 9	Example 5 : Decisions using If-Else and Switch Statements	18:29
  	Lecture 10	Example 6 : Strings - single quotes, double quotes, what's the difference?	11:45
  	Lecture 11	Example 7 : Logical Operators	16:43
  	Lecture 12	Example 8 : Introduction to Web Forms	12:38
  	Lecture 13	Example 8 : The GET Request	14:55
  	Lecture 14	Example 8 : The POST Request and differences between GET and POST	09:48
  Section 4: Web Forms, Validating And Sanitizing User Input, Mitigating Security Risks
  	Lecture 15	Example 8 : Web Form Processing	05:26
  	Lecture 16	Example 9 : Superglobals	16:33
  	Lecture 17	Example 10 : The htmlspecialchars() function and XSS mitigation	14:05
  	Lecture 18	Example 10 : Sanitizing user input	05:28
  	Lecture 19	Example 11 : Validating user input	15:16
  	Lecture 20	Example 11 : Putting it all together	09:16
  	Lecture 21	Configure sending email using a Gmail account (Windows)	12:52
  	Lecture 22	Configure sending email using a Gmail account (Mac)	09:28
  	Lecture 23	Example 12 : Write code to send mail	07:36
  Section 5: Intermediate Constructs In The PHP Language
  	Lecture 24	Example 13 : Introduction to arrays	16:22
  	Lecture 25	Example 13 : Associative arrays	07:44
  	Lecture 26	Example 13 : Multidimensional arrays	07:16
  	Lecture 27	Example 14 : For, While And Do-While Loops	15:33
  	Lecture 28	Example 14 : Break And Continue - P2	08:05
  	Lecture 29	Example 15 : Introduction to functions	11:05
  	Lecture 30	Example 15 : Pass by Value, Pass By Reference, Default Values	12:55
  	Lecture 31	Example 16 : Local Variables, Variable Hiding	10:05
  	Lecture 32	Example 16 : Global and Static Variables	07:08
  Section 6: PHP and MySQL - A Well Oiled Integration
  	Lecture 33	MySQL Introduction	03:38
  	Lecture 34	Enabling MySQL and using phpmyadmin (Windows)	03:04
  	Lecture 35	Installing MySQL (Mac)	07:03
  	Lecture 36	Using MySQL Workbench (Mac)	12:47
  	Lecture 37	Getting PHP and MySQL to talk to each other (Mac)	01:06
  	Lecture 38	Example 17 : Connecting, Running Queries, Closing a Connection	12:01
  	Lecture 39	Example 18 : Creating a table, Inserting rows	14:23
  	Lecture 40	Example 19 : Running select queries	14:04
  	Lecture 41	Example 20 : prepared statements	11:52
  Section 7: Cookies And Sessions - Stuff Which Makes PHP Cool
  	Lecture 42	Example 21 : Introduction to cookies	07:42
  	Lecture 43	Example 21 : Setting and accessing cookies	12:35
  	Lecture 44	Example 21 : Deleting a cookie	02:57
  	Lecture 45	Example 22 : Introduction to sessions	12:22
  	Lecture 46	Example 22 : Creating and using sessions	14:17
  	Lecture 47	Example 22 : Destroying sessions	06:40
  	Lecture 48	Example 23 : Passing session ids automatically without cookies	10:28
  	Lecture 49	Example 23 : Working with sessions without cookies	07:51
  Section 8: Build A Login Authentication System From The Ground Up
  	Lecture 50	Steps to build a login authentication system	03:12
  	Lecture 51	Example 24 : Including files for code reuse	09:16
  	Lecture 52	Example 25 : Add signed up users to the Users table	11:55
  	Lecture 53	Example 25 : The sign up form and protection against Cross Site Request Forgery	13:48
  	Lecture 54	Example 26 : Logging in and authenticating a user	11:19
  	Lecture 55	Example 26 : Redirecting to a login success page	09:05
  	Lecture 56	Example 27 : Checking whether a user is already logged in	09:35
  	Lecture 57	Example 28 : Logout	05:35
  Section 9: Advanced Constructs in PHP: Object Oriented Programming
  	Lecture 58	What's the big deal about classes?	08:27
  	Lecture 59	Example 29 : Meet your very first class	14:11
  	Lecture 60	Example 30 : The constructor and the destructor	10:39
  	Lecture 61	Example 31 : Public and private access types	09:01
  	Lecture 62	Example 32 : Inheritance and modeling is-a relationships	09:59
  	Lecture 63	Example 32 : Working with base and derived classes	15:06
  	Lecture 64	Example 33 : The protected access type	10:12
  	Lecture 65	Example 34 : An object can have multiple forms, polymorphism	10:55
  	Lecture 66	Example 35 : Final and abstract	10:44
  	Lecture 67	Example 36 : Trust static variables to be strange even in classes!	10:29
  	Lecture 68	Example 37 : Constants, as opposed to variables	07:56
  	Lecture 69	Example 38 : Interfaces, the contract which a class adheres to	11:20
  Section 10: Some random useful stuff
  	Lecture 70	Example 39 : Filters are more powerful than you first imagined	17:12
  	Lecture 71	Example 40 : Headers are metadata about browser content	11:42
  Section 11: Working with files
  	Lecture 72	Example 41 : Read and file and display it's contents	03:07
  	Lecture 73	Example 42 : Common file functions	02:45
  	Lecture 74	Example 43 : More flexibility with files fopen(), fread() and fclose()	08:05
  	Lecture 75	Example 44 : Writing to a file using fwrite()	03:50
  	Lecture 76	Example 45 : Uploading a file to the server	17:03

What is covered in this Course?

• • Apply advanced constructs such as cookies, sessions and object oriented programming correctly
  • Mitigate basic web security risks by sanitizing and validating user input
  • Build a robust login authentication system using MySQL to allow users to sign up and log into your site
  • Harness the power of programming to build intelligent, interactive and personalized web sites
  • Installing and setting up a basic web server with PHP
  • Web security basics: validating and sanitizing user input data. Web forms, mitigating XSS and XSRF attacks
  • MySQL Integration and Installation: Connecting to a database, running queries, processing results, prepared statements. Easy integration with MySQL so it's dead simple to work with databases for permanent data storage
  • Cookies, Sessions and the differences between them, using sessions without cookies
  • End to end login authentication
  • Object oriented PHP, classes, inheritance, polymorphism
  • GET, POST and other superglobals

Who should buy this course?

• • Students who are looking to use the power of programming to build dynamic web sites
  • Students who are looking to get into the nitty gritty of advanced PHP constructs such as cookies, sessions and object oriented programming
  • No prior programming experience needed, this course starts at zero
  • A little basic HTML, CSS and SQL will be helpful for some of the examples.