PHP Programming

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Intro

• general-purpose scripting language
• especially suited to web development
• fast, flexible and pragmatic
• powers everything from simple blog to the corporate organisations

Intro con't

PHP - recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

• widely-used open source language
• can be embedded into HTML
• code is executed on the server, generating HTML which is then sent to the client
• extremely simple, yet offers many advanced features

Data Structures (refresher only)

• Associative arrays
• Session variables, global variables, cookies
• Date
• File and File Upload
• Cookies and Sessions
• E-mail
• Error Handling
• Exceptions Handling
• PHP Filter

Security

• authorization and authentication
• using cookies and sessions

Dealing with Images

GD Library and alternatives

PHP XML

• SimpleXML
• Expat Parser
• XML DOM

Object-Oriented Programming

• Terminology Object
• Declaring classes and constructors
• Creating and Using Objects
• Properties and methods
• Inheritance
• Access modifiers
• Magic methods
• Declaring and using interfaces
• exception Handling

Using Databases

• Methods of data storing data
• PDO extension
• Connecting to a database using PDO
• Operations on data
• Error Handling PDO
• Transactions
• Primary keys
• Joins
• Aggregate functions and grouping
• connect to the database
• storing passwords
• executing queries
• processing data
• modifying and removing data
• binding form to records in the database

Programming interfaces

• Architecture services
• Adding to the system API
• The data format JSON and XML
• RESTful Services
• Designing Web Service

Design Patterns

• What are design patterns
• Singleton Pattern
• Factory Pattern
• MVC model-view-controller

Efficiency

• Research applications performance
• Code cache

Safety

Filtering input Session fixation Session hijacking SQL injection Storing passwords SSL