Web Design Workshop Syllabus

From LUG Manipal Wiki

GENERAL

• PHP Variables

• No data types in php (why?)

• echo statement (print also in case needed)

• Looping like for , while , foreach, do...while

• Decision statements like if , else , switch case

• Functions in php

• Keywords: break , continue

• require , require_once

STRINGS

• Basic string functions

• Functions: chr,ord , md5 , strcasecmp , strstr ,strcmp , strlen , strrev , strtolower , strtoupper

ARRAYS

• Accessing and setting an element using index or key

• unset an array element

• join: making array from string

• in_array: checking an element is in array

• array_reverse , sort , print_r , shuffle , array_unique

WEB BASICS

• sessions and cookies (optional)

• server variables

• environmental variables

• headers

• Sending mails

• Hashing

FILES

• Opening a file

• reading , writing files , end of file

• is_file , is_dir , glob

• fgets , fputs , unlink , touch , rmdir , rewind , rename , is_readable , is_writable

FORMS

• GET and POST variables

• isset, form attributes

• submit, form element names relationship with GET and POST variables

• session variable, its use in user login

MySQL

• Making a connection , Closing a connection

• Selecting DB

• Sending queries

• SQL queries (create table, select,insert, delete, update, truncate, Primary Key, Foreign Key)

• Fetching results

• die function

• mysql_escape_string , mysql_fetch_array , mysql_result