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PMP Cohort Basic PHP Training

Basic PHP

Day 01

Basic PHP/MySQL Install

• Create index.php
• Comments // /* */
• echo Command
• Variables
• Strings
• Concatenation
• Arrays
  • Indexed
  • Associative
  • Multi-dimensional

Day 02

• include_once vs require_once()
• Control structures
  • for
  • if
  • == vs =
• Functions

Challenge: Create a 3 page website (about.php, index.php, contact.php) whose navigation and page content is fed by arrays; use functions to access the arrays and echo the content. You will need: content.php, functions.php, and nav.php files

Day 03

• Make a backup of your Vagrant file $ mv Vagrantfile Vagrantfile.log
• Download Vagrantfile from the repo to your local php-training folder (or copy-paste to an empty Vagrantfile - click on file, view "raw", then file/save)
• Create a basic form on the contact.php page (firstname, lastname, submit)
• Use $_POST/$_GET to pull data into the index.php
• Use "Null Coalescing" ?? operators to set default value of variable from $_POST

Challenge: Split into teams of 2 and, on the White boards, write out a basic HTML page that uses PHP to set a name variable before the HTML and then echo out that variable in the body of the HTML.

Challenge: Same teams, on the white boards, before your HTML use php to set two names with an array and then use a loop in the body of the HTML to echo each name out in <p> tags.

Challenge: Use PHP to get the first and last name variables from $_POST and echo them out as the default content for the two first and last name fields in the form.

Day 04

• Enable PHP Error Reporting
  • enable-php-error-reporting
• Databases (what are they? how do they even work?)
  • MySQL
    • Log in to mysql locally
    • Show Databases
    • Show Tables
    • Describe tables
    • Select data
    • Create a database
    • Create a table
    • Insert rows
• Connect to database in PHP