PHP+PHP7+MySQL for Beginners. Creating a web application - Udemy

In the course we will study PHP from scratch - from the very-very basics, from the syntax, the concept of a variable, and so on. After completing the course lessons, you will become confident PHP developer (if you would successfully study the course materials, of course).

Lessons won’t be based only on theory, they will be maximally filled with practical and working examples. In order to turn the studied knowledge, at the end of the course we will create a simple dynamic site using database and MVC pattern.

A logical extension of the theory and practice study will be lessons on innovations of the new version of the language - PHP 7. This version has become much faster than its predecessors and some useful features appeared in it, which you might be interested to study.

From the lessons on PHP 7 you will learn about new operators and functions, new features that move PHP in the direction of languages ​​with strong typing. All this topics will be discussed in the logical extension of the main course on PHP - in the lessons on the novelties of PHP 7.

What will you learn from the lessons of the offered course?

As befits, we start with the simple things. In particular, from the first lesson you will learn the difference between client programming languages ​​and server languages to which PHP belongs. You will also find out what kind of environment you need to work with PHP code, and install a web server for further work.

Further we will get to know a little bit boring, but very necessary knowledge, without which further study of any language loses its meaning. This is the syntax of the PHP language. You will learn how to embed a PHP script in the HTML file code, in which files PHP code can work, what comments are needed for and how to use them in PHP. We will also write with you the first simple PHP program that will display the specified message.

Of course, the study of any programming language is not complete without the concept of a variable. We will know the answers to such questions as: what are variables and constants in PHP, how to declare a variable, what rules are used for naming variables, how variables differ from constants, how to declare a constant, in which cases it is common to use constants and so on.

The next important step in learning the theory of PHP will be the concept of data types. You will get acquainted with such data types as integer, floating point, string, boolean, array, and others.

Several lessons of the course will be devoted to understanding how to work with arrays. What is array, different types of loops for working with arrays and a number of other issues will be considered in a cycle of five lessons.

We will also pay much attention to another key topic of the PHP language - functions. PHP offers a huge number of different functions for working with different data: strings, arrays, date and time, and so on. We will get acquainted with some of these functions.

In addition, we can also create our own custom functions, thanks to which we can avoid similar code repeating and group key code sections. In fact, half of the course will be devoted to the study of all these points.

Four big lessons will be devoted to such an important practical topic as working with a database. Here you will get acquainted with the basics of working with MySQL DBMS, learn how to write SQL queries, thanks to which it will be possible to simply manage data arrays.

As a result, we will consolidate in practice the knowledge gained during the course. As a practice, we will create the simple version of the guest book using the database.