PHP Fundamentals

by Jeffrey Way24 Aug 2012

Lessons:46Length:9.8 hours

PHP Programming Fundamentals

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Introduction

00:39

So you’ve learned the basics (HTML and CSS) and are now ready to dig into building your own dynamic websites? Congratulations for getting this far—now it’s time for the fun part! In this course I’ll teach you, from scratch, how to use PHP. We’ll also, naturally, have to learn a bit of MySQL in the process!

Once you've got the basics, why not check out some of our more advanced PHP courses:

1.Introduction
2 lessons, 13:54

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1.1
Introduction
00:39

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1.2
Installation
13:15

2.The PHP Language
12 lessons, 2:37:54

2.1
Syntax and Variables
12:09

2.2
Displaying Errors
06:18

2.3
Arrays
18:37

2.4
Modifying Arrays
18:57

2.5
Conditionals
22:00

2.6
Loops
08:31

2.7
Running Scripts
09:19

2.8
Includes and Requires
07:57

2.9
Formatted Strings
13:48

2.10
Decoding Functions and Scope
20:19

2.11
Objects at a Low Level
10:44

2.12
Heredocs
09:15

3.Passing Values From Page to Page
5 lessons, 1:15:52

3.1
Using the Query String
14:09

3.2
$_POST
10:17

3.3
Sessions
17:27

3.4
Refactoring the Previous Lesson
12:26

3.5
Cookies
21:33

4.Working With Files
3 lessons, 40:52

4.1
Creating a Counter
17:35

4.2
Manipulating Filenames
13:11

4.3
Homework Solutions
10:06

5.Midterm Project
2 lessons, 38:23

5.1
A File-Based Mailing List (Part 1)
17:58

5.2
A File-Based Mailing List (Part 2)
20:25

6.MySQL
5 lessons, 56:42

6.1
Introduction to MySQL
13:56

6.2
Inserting, Selecting, and Deleting
08:41

6.3
Updating Rows and Columns
11:20

6.4
Joining Tables
12:09

6.5
GUI Apps
10:36

7.PHP and MySQL
6 lessons, 1:19:44

7.1
Anti-Pattern: PHP's MySQL API
20:06

7.2
PDO: Connecting
06:16

7.3
The Query Method
04:28

7.4
Prepared Statements
13:48

7.5
PDO Helper Functions
24:22

7.6
Namespaces
10:44

8.Hands-On Project
5 lessons, 1:00:38

8.1
The Obligatory Blog (Part 1)
09:37

8.2
The Obligatory Blog (Part 2)
11:40

8.3
The Obligatory Blog (Part 3)
11:55

8.4
The Obligatory Blog (Part 4)
19:46

8.5
The Obligatory Blog (Part 5)
07:40

9.The Next Level
5 lessons, 1:03:31

9.1
Composer and ActiveRecord
15:29

9.2
Classes and Houses
15:42

9.3
Grouping Related Properties and Methods
08:09

9.4
An HTML Utility Class
10:29

9.5
A File Utility Class
13:42

10.Conclusion
1 lesson, 03:14

10.1
Conclusion
03:14

I used to be the editor of Nettuts+ and head of web development courses at Tuts+.