Carlos On Web :: Blogging from Experience

In a series of articles, I will be writing some tutorials on the basics of PHP. I have done a number of workshops and lectures in the past demonstrating the use of PHP and MySQL in building dynamic, database-driven website, but I have not really origanized my work in one coherent manual where people — including those who are really new to PHP and want to get up to speed with it — can refer to for a quick guide. I have young students in Davao who come to me for help in learning PHP. There are also other software professionals who are just plainly curious and want to explore about PHP and compare it with their current development tools like JSP or ASP.Net.

To this end, I want to share with them a very quick and easy tutorial on PHP Programming. There are already a lot of tutorials out there scattered on the Web, but here I’ll try to be concise and include only those that are relevant. At the end of each topic, there will be questions or problems that you have to solve on your own to challenge you on what you have learned about a specific topic.

PRE-REQUISITES:

• Knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Knowledge of at least one programming language
• Background on SQL
• Knowledge of Windows Environment

TOPIC:

1. Intalling PHP Under Windows
2. PHP Syntax
3. Variables, Constants and Simple Arrays
4. Control Structures
5. PHP Form Handling
6. String Handling
7. User-defined Functions
8. Object-Oriented Programming using PHP
9. Connecting PHP to MySQL
10. Building a Simple Database Application With PHP and MySQL

That’s it! In the coming days, the rest of the articles will be posted here.

Happy PHP coding!

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