PHP is an open source, server–side programming language designed to complement HTML and allow the creation of dynamic websites.
This workshop covers the basics of computer programming, programming in a web environment, and programming in the PHP language to write dynamic webpages.
Writing static webpages in HTML and CSS (or a sound knowledge of HTML 4.01 plus a basic knowledge of CSS 2.0) is a prerequisite for this course.
Competence in the use of web browsers, text editors, and the computer's operating system is assumed.
Tutor: Deb Shepherd
Introduction
— to dynamic web pages, programming, and the PHP language
Getting started
— PHP syntax, comments and statements
— programming with pre–set functions
PHP basics
— writing programs
— types, expressions, operators, constants, variables
— using an HTML <form> to pass variables around
— calculations
— arrays
PHP conditionals
— making choices
— the IF statement
— the SWITCH statement
Automatically generating HTML from PHP
PHP loops
— the FOR loop
— nesting FOR loops
— the WHILE loop
PHP functions
PHP and databases
— interacting with web based (SQL) databases
What next?
