PHP Tutorials: Beginners PHP Tutorials

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This is a complete and free PHP programming course for beginners. It's assumed that you already have some HTML skills. But you don't need to be a guru, by any means. If you need a refresher on HTML, then click the link for the Web Design course on the left of this page. Everything you need to get started with this PHP course is set out in section one below. Good luck!

Section One - An Introduction to PHP

1. What is PHP and Why do I need it?

2. What you need to get started

3. Installing and testing Wampserver

Section Two - Getting Started With Variables

1. What is a Variable?

2. Putting text into variables

3. PHP Variables - some practice

4. More variable practice

5. Joining direct text and variable data

6. Adding up in PHP

8. Multiplication

10. Floating point numbers in PHP

Section Three - Conditional Logic

1. PHP If Statements

2. Using If Statements

4. if ... else if

5. Comparison Operators in PHP

6. NOT Equal To

7. Less Than and Greater Than

8. What these mean: <=, >=

9. The PHP Switch Statement

10. PHP Logical Operators

11. Boolean Values

12. Operator Precedence - a List

Section Four - Working with HTML Forms in PHP

1. The HTML Form

2. The Method Attribute

3. The Post Attribute

4. The Action Attribute

5. The Submit button

6. Getting values from a Text Box

7. Check for Submit button clicks

8. More on the ACTION attribute

9. Keep data the user entered

10. PHP and Radio Buttons

11. PHP and Checkboxes

Section Five - PHP Programming Loops

1. PHP For Loops

2. A Times Table Programme

3. The Code for the PHP Times Table

4. PHP While Loops

5. PHP Do ... While loops

6. The break statement

Section Six - PHP Arrays

1. What is an Array?

2. Setting up an Array in PHP

3. Getting at the values stored in Arrays

4. Arrays - Using Text as Keys

5. Arrays and PHP For Each Loops

6. Sorting PHP Array values

7. Random Keys from an Array

8. The count function

9. Some PHP Array Scripts

Section Seven - String Manipulation in PHP

1. Changing Case

2. Trimming White Space in PHP

3. Shuffle characters

4. Find string positions with the PHP strpos function

5. Splitting a line of text

6. Joining text into a single line

7. PHP and Escaping

8. PHP String function list

Section Eight - PHP Functions

1. An Introduction to PHP Functions

2. PHP Variable scope and functions

3. Functions and Arguments

4. A Function to check for blank text boxes

5. Getting values out of functions

6. By Ref, By Val

7. PHP Server Variables

8. HTTP header() Function

9. The INCLUDE( ) Function

Section Nine - PHP Security Issues

1. PHP Security Issues And Form Elements

2. The PHP htmlspecialchars( ) function

3. PHP strip_tags( ) function

Section Ten - Dealing With Files In PHP

1. Working With Files In PHP

2. Opening a file with the PHP readfile() function

3. Opening a file with fopen( ) in PHP

4. Options for PHP fopen( )

5. Writing to files in PHP

6. Working with CSV files in PHP

7. Read a text file into an PHP array

8. File Locations

Section Eleven - Date and Time Functions in PHP

1. The PHP date() function

2. Using PHP the date() function

3. The PHP getdate() Function

Section Twelve - PHP and MySQL

1. PHP and MySQL

2. Create a database with phpMyAdmin

3. Setting up fields in phpMyAdmin tables

4. Add records to a MySQL Table

Section Thirteen - Manipulate a MySQL Database

1. MySQL databases and PHP code

2. Read records from a MySQL database

3. Adding records to a MySQL database

4. Import Database into phpMyAdmin

5. PHP Prepared Statements

6. Insert, Update, Delete with PHP Prepared Statements

Walkthrough One - PHP User Authentication

1. PHP User Authentication - Introduction

2. The login database

3. PHP - Encrypting Passwords

4. The PHP Login script

5. Logging in and Logging Out

Walkthrough Two - Build your own PHP Survey/Poll Application

1. PHP Survey App - the database

2.How the PHP Survey works

3. Setting a question for the Survey

4. The PHP Code for the Survey

5. Viewing the Survey results

6.Adding a new Survey question

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