Web Development Intensive

Some PHP reference materials:

The basic idea

• Introduction to PHP
• The main uses of PHP: templating and business logic
• Intro to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture

Basic tutorials and examples

• Tizag PHP Tutorials
• PHP variables, arrays, and functions
• Introduction to arrays
• Basic PHP Examples

Data persistence

• Data Persistence

The HTTP GET and POST methods

• Passing data with forms
• Uploading files to a server in PHP
• Sanitizing user-generated content

Other things PHP can do

• Sending email in PHP
• SimplePie, and RSS parser for PHP

Tracking users

• Sessions in PHP

Object-oriented programming

• Basic concepts of object-oriented programming
• Anatomy of object-oriented programming in PHP

Debugging

• Debugging PHP and MySQL code