A gentle introduction to the PHP programming language.
This class will provide a brief introduction to the use of PHP, the widely-used language that powers some of the most popular web sites today. For example, WordPress is said to be in use on 26% of web sites [citation needed] and is written in PHP. Along with PHP, we'll be looking at MySQL, a relational database management system, which is used to store the information between calls to your web application.
- Good working knowledge of command line, including navigation, using git, etc. Must be comfortable with a code editor such as Atom, Sublime Text, and Visual Code
- Good working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- A GitHub account (or similar, but we'll only be showing GitHub)
- A Cloud9 account (we will provide one)
- How servers work
- The components of a web application
- How you write a web application
- Data modeling
- Data manipulation: CRUD
- Data reporing
- Integrating front-end and back-end
- Using PHP and MySQL together
- Setting up a development environemnt, using development tools to build a web application, and deploying the application into a production environment
- Testing your web application before you put it out in front of a Billion people
A mere description of PHP syntax, nor a read-through of information that is widely available to you on the web.
- PHP
- Apache
- MySQL
- LAMP/WAMP/MAMP
- Cloud9
- Heroku
- DigitalOcean
- What is HTTP and the Request-Response cycle?
- What's a Web application? How is it different from a plain old web site?
- What is the difference between front-end and back-end?
- What's a web server?
- What's a database?
You have a landing page, but you want to provide a simple way for people to contact you, while you keep track of the contacts so you have a history over time of the activity, and to follow up with people that have contacted you in the past.
While you could perhaps use email for this, you want more detailed and structured information for each contact, and to be able to record and keep further contacts with each person.
- introduction to MySQL databases and PhpMyAdmin
- introduction to PHP scripting for form data collection and storing in a data base
- determine what data to collect, data modeling, MySQL database creation and manipulation
- introduction to PHP report generation
- creating public and private interfaces
- protecting your application from malicious data insertion
You're a world traveler and love taking snapshots of everything around you. You want to be able to share these images with your thoughts, and keep them organized by trip, date, and image content. You want your words and pictures to tell a compelling story about your travels.
You'll need a way to upload your files and store them until you display them on your website. You'll need a way to capture text about the images, and tag them. You need a way to keep trip information and link the images to a particular trip.
- determine what data to collect, data modeling, MySQL database creation and manipulation
- data base relationships
- using PHP to manage database relationships
- determine how and where to store large media
- determine uploading and distribution of large media
- public viewing, private editing and uploading
- integrating good front-end code with back-end code
You're a regular web surfer and blogger, but you see so many places on the web and don't have a ready way to capture what you've seen. Enter the world of LinkSaver - a handy application with a simple bookmarklet that you add to your browser bar to click and save the page you are currently on.
You want to publish your links in an Atom feed, as well as provide a nice looking web site to sort through them later.
- determine what data to collect, data modeling, MySQL database creation and manipulation
- learn how to integrate JavaScript bookmarklets into a PHP application
- learn how to provide alternative output such as RSS and Atom XML feeds
- learn how to integrate front-end applicaiton authentication and authorization with back-end account management
- more PHP report generation