1. Advanced Certification in PHP
Our PHP Programming course provides the knowledge necessary to design and develop dynamic,
database-driven web pages. PHP is a language written for the web, quick to learn, easy to deploy and
provides substantial functionality required for e-commerce. This course introduces the PHP framework
and syntax, and covers in depth the most important techniques which are used to build dynamic web
sites.
Pre-Requisites:
A basic working knowledge of HTML is presumed. Some conceptual knowledge of how web servers and
web browsers (clients) interact using HTTP. A working knowledge of at least one scripting/programming
language or evidence of strong capabilities in relevant areas of mathematical/logical reasoning
Programme Outline:
Course Duration: 2 1/2 months
Schedule: 2 Hours/3 Days a week
Week 1: PHP and Web Programming - Overview
 How PHP compares with other approaches: JavaScript, Flash, CGI/Perl, Microsoft's ASP, and Sun's Java
Server Pages
 PHP Pros and Cons
 PHP: past, present and future (PHP 3.0, PHP 4.0, and PHP 5)
 The road ahead...
 Modular application design
 Learning to create and use code libraries
 Object Oriented PHP
 Separating front and back ends (MVC pattern)
 Setting up your environment
 Directory structure
 Error handling and
Week 2: Elements of PHP - Review
 PHP variables and arrays Control flow
 Patterns for processing HTML forms
 Understanding $_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION and other PHP super-arrays
 Dynamically generating HTML - example: self-populating forms
Week 3: Functions

2.  How to think about PHP's many utility functions
 Examples with numbers, strings and dates
 Discussion: string functions vs. regular expressions
User-defined functions: units of code
Functional overview...
 Return values
 Parameters: Passing 'by value' vs. 'by reference'
 Variable scope
Arranging function in separate 'include' files: code libraries. Looking ahead: what is an 'Object'? More
about debugging and error handling
Week 4: Introduction to PHP and MySQL
PHP's customized MySQL functions
A simple database-driven application: message board
 Creating the database schema
 Connecting to the database
 Inserting and Updating data
Week 5: Object-oriented PHP
What is O-O programming, and why is it cool?
Understanding how using objects can improve PHP programs
Understanding how objects work in PHP
 References vs. values
 PHP 4 vs. PHP 5
Re-using existing objects: Example of the PEAR::DB interface
Creating and programming with objects: Example of object-oriented version of message board
Week 6: String
 Quoting String Constants
 Printing Strings
 Table of Contents
 Accessing Individual Characters
 Cleaning Strings

3.  Encoding and Escaping
 Comparing Strings
 Manipulating and Searching Strings
 Regular Expressions
 POSIX-Style Regular Expressions
 Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions
Week 7: Arrays
 Indexed Versus Associative Arrays
 Identifying Elements of an Array
 Storing Data in Arrays
 Multidimensional Arrays
 Extracting Multiple Values
 Converting Between Arrays and Variables
 Traversing Arrays
 Sorting
 Acting on Entire Arrays
 Using Arrays
Week 8: Object
 Terminology
 Creating an Object
 Accessing Properties and Methods
 Declaring a Class
 Introspection
 Serialization
Week 9: Introduction to cms(Joomla)
 Building a cms through Php
 Joomla -Introduction to cutting edge content Week
Week 10: Bringing It All Together
 In the final week we apply many of the concepts studied so far to develop a complete, well-architected
web application component: a simple online shopping cart using cookies, sessions and the database.
 PHP and web application security
 More about objects