Introduction to php

INTRODUCTION TO PHP by Jorge Garifuna info@GariDigital.com @jgarifuna jgari.com/resume 1

WHAT IS PHP?Recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext PreprocessorWidely-used open source general-purpose scriptinglanguageSuited for web development and can be embeddedinto HTML 2

WHEN TO USE PHP 3

WHY USE PHPIt integrates with everythingBest documentation on the webIt makes you a Power Hungry Programmer! 4

WHY USE PHP 5

PROJECTS USING PHP 6

WAYS TO LEARN PHP1. By writing straight PHP from scratch2. By using PHP frameworks CakePHP Symfony Zend3. By using Quick Web Application Builder (QWAB) 7

SETTING UP ENVIRONMENTMac OS (ready or MAMP or ) http://www.coolestguyplanettech.com/how-to-install-php-mysql-apache-on-os-x-10-6/Windows (XAMPP or WAMP) http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.htmlLinux Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install php5 mysql-server apache2 CentOS: http://www.howtoforge.com/quick-n-easy-lamp-server-centos-rhel 8

TOOLSText Editor or IDE PSPad netbeans eclipseDatabase administration phpMyAdmin Sequel Pro MySQL Workbench 9

FIRST PHP PROGRAM<?php echo "Hi, Im a PHP script!";?> Save as hello.php on web server 10

CONNECTING TO DATABASE<?phpif (mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD)){ if (mysql_select_db(DB_NAME)){ return true; }}die("nDB ERROR: " . mysql_error() . "n");?>Text 11

PROCESSING FORMSfile name: myform.html<html> file name: myform.php<body> <form action="myform.php" method="post"> <html> <body> <p>Your Name: Your name is: <input type="text" name="yourname" /><br /> <?php echo $_POST[yourname]; ?><br /> E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" /></p> Your e-mail: <p>Do you like this website? <?php echo $_POST[email]; ?><br /> <input type="radio" name="likeit" <br /> value="Yes" checked="checked" /> Yes <input type="radio" name="likeit" Do you like this website? value="No" /> No <input type="radio" name="likeit" value="Not <?php echo $_POST[likeit]; ?><br /> sure" /> Not sure</p> <br /> <p>Your comments:<br /> Comments:<br /> <textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="40"></textarea></p> <?php echo $_POST[comments]; ?> <p><input type="submit" value="Send it!"></ </body> p> </html> </form></body></html> 12

CONNECTING TO FACEBOOK AND TWITTER WITH HYBRIDAUTHhttp://oyanix.com/opensource/hybridauth/ 13

SPEEDING UP PROTOTYPING WITH QUICK WEB APPLICATION BUILDER (QWAB)Generates complete functional web-basedapplications through a web-based interface in threeeasy stepsWould you like to see it in action?http://garisoft.com/qwab 14

HOSTING RESOURCES FOR PHPhostmonster.comhostgator.comgodaddy.com 15

TRANSFERRING YOUR PHP FILES TO THE SERVERhttp://ﬁlezilla-project.org/ 16

USEFUL PHP RESOURCEShttp://www.phpclasses.org/http://php.net/http://framework.zend.com/http://cakephp.org/http://www.laphp.org/http://lampsig.orghttp://www.meetup.com/LAMPsig/ 17

SEREMEIN!(THANK YOU!) Jorge Garifuna info@GariDigital.com @jgarifuna jgari.com/resume http://www.meetup.com/LAMPsig 18

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