Lynda – PHP Essential Training
Welcome to PHP Essential Training. PHP allows writing simple code for webpages. If you’ve been using HTML to develop websites, PHP is a great next step. In this course, we’re going to focus on learning the fundamentals of the PHP language. We will learn how to embed PHP code into an HTML page to output dynamic text.We will review the basic PHP data types, such as variables, strings, and arrays. Then we will learn about the different control structures in PHP, such as logical expressions and loops,which give us control over how our code executes.
We will cover many of PHP’s built-in functions but also learn to define our own custom functions. By the end of this course, you’ll have the basics you need to start adding PHP code to your webpages. Let’s get started learning PHP.
PHP is a popular programming language that you can use to write simple code for web pages. If you have been using HTML to develop websites, learning PHP will allow you to create dynamic pages. In this course, learn the fundamentals of PHP. Kevin Skoglund covers concepts such as how to embed PHP code into an HTML page, and reviews the basic PHP data types such as strings and arrays. He also covers the different control structures in PHP, how to work with built-in PHP functions, and how to define your own custom functions.
Topics include:
- What is PHP?
- Embedding PHP code on a page
- Inserting code comments
- Variables, strings, arrays, and Booleans
- If, else, and elseif statements
- While and for loops
- User-defined functions
- Function arguments and return values
- Debugging and troubleshooting