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PHP for Beginners: Learn to Code in PHP. Every line of code explained in detail. A true PHP for Beginners Course 2021
This PHP for beginners course introduces you to PHP through carefully crafted examples and fully worked tasks. Learning by doing is what this course is all about. You will experience real world examples of PHP code use.
Have you seen other courses that use complex terms or that jump steps and leave you thinking “why did that just happen”? You won’t find that with this course because every line of code is explained and is very easy to follow.
This course has been designed with the coding beginner in mind or those who may have picked up bad habits and wish to refresh their coding skills.
On hand to help and guide you is a renowned national award-winning teacher who has taught 1000s of students over a career of over 25 years.
Highlights of this course include:
- Full code from every example and mini task shared with you online
- Carefully crafted challenges and full solutions with FULL explanations of every line
- Demonstration of a shared coding environment
- Dozens of real world examples with more added on a regular basis
- A tutor who cares about his students
- Regular updates and new challenges
Every line of code is explained in full detail to ensure that you can progress from absolute beginner to competent coder very quickly.
What you’ll learn
- a true PHP for Beginners course with step-by-step lessons
- learn how to code using PHP from a national award-winning teacher
- you will be taken from absolute PHP beginner to confident coder with every step clearly explained
- create dozens of useful PHP scripts
- create a Rock Paper Scissors game
- create a basic hit counter via sessions
- create a 2 player Tic Tac Toe game
- create a bad word filter
- create a ‘How many days until Christmas’ script
- create and use HTML forms and process the data using PHP
- create, read, update and delete sessions and cookies
- access to regularly updated content including lesson notes, downloadable code, HD quality video tutorials, and quizzes
- 25 PHP coding challenges (more added regularly) with full video solutions and downloadable PHP code
- access real world coding challenges and examples including full video solutions and downloadable code
- manipulate words and sentences (strings) using string functions
- use mathematical operators e.g. addition, subtraction, multiplication, division (and more) to solve practical
- problems e.g. calculate the area of a circle if the user inputs the radius or diameter
- use loops to simplify processes
use conditional statements to test properties and action processes based on the result - create and use simple arrays and solve problems involving array functions
- use associative arrays and manipulate them using array functions
- use PHP internal functions and create your own
- use the date() function to perform calculations based on date
- a tutor who responds quickly to questions and who regularly updates the course
- …and much more!
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Preparing Your PHP for Beginners Development Environment
PHP Basics
2 Hello, World!
3 How to use the correct syntax in PHP
4 What are PHP Variables
5 How to assign values to a variable in PHP
6 What PHP data types are available
7 How to add comments to PHP code
8 Echo and Print – how to view PHP output
Basic Operators
9 How to use concatenation
10 How to add and subtract numbers in PHP
11 How to multiply and divide numbers in PHP
12 How to use the PHP modulus operator
13 How to find a power of a number using PHP
14 Challenge 1 Back to school – TASK
15 Challenge 1 Back to school – SOLUTION
16 Challenge 1 Back to school – CODE
17 More concatenation
18 Challenge What’s in a name
19 Challenge Solution What’s in a name
20 Challenge 2 What’s in a name CODE
IF Statements
21 Logical and comparison operators
22 How to use a basic IF statement in PHP
23 How to use an IF ELSE statement in PHP
24 How to use an ELSEIF statement in PHP
25 More logical and comparison operators
Basic Loops
26 Counting Incrementing and Decrementing
27 How to use a FOR loop in PHP
28 How to use WHILE loops in PHP
29 Challenge Multiples
30 Challenge 3 Multiples – TASK
31 Challenge 3 Multiples – SOLUTION
32 Challenge 3 Multiples – CODE
33 Challenge Fizz Buzz
34 Challenge 4 Let’s play Fizz Buzz TASK
35 Challenge 4 Let’s play Fizz Buzz SOLUTION
36 Challenge 4 Let’s play Fizz Buzz CODE
PHP Internal (in-built) Functions
37 How to use the PHP online reference manual
38 How to generate a random number in PHP
39 Challenge Odds or Evens – TASK
40 Challenge Odds and Evens – VIDEO
41 Challenge Odds and Evens – SOLUTION
42 Challenge Odds and Evens – CODE
43 Challenge 6 Who ate all the pi – TASK
44 Challenge Who are all the pi – VIDEO
45 Challenge 6 Who ate all the pi – SOLUTION
46 Challenge 6 Who ate all the pi – CODE
47 How to use the date function in PHP
48 Challenge 7 Carpe Diem – TASK
49 Challenge Carpe Diem – VIDEO
50 Challenge 7 Carpe Diem – SOLUTION
51 Challenge 7 Carpe Diem – CODE
52 Time functions
53 Challenge 8 Santa Claus is coming to town – TASK
54 Challenge Santa Claus is Coming to Town
55 Challenge 8 Santa Claus is coming to town – SOLUTION
56 Challenge 8 Santa Claus is coming to town – CODE
How to create a form in HTML and send data to a PHP script
57 How to create a basic HTML page structure
58 How to create a basic HTML form
59 How to use form data in PHP
60 Challenge 9 Temperature conversion – TASK
61 Challenge Temperature Conversion – VIDEO
62 Challenge 9 Temperature conversion – SOLUTION
63 Challenge 9 Temperature conversion CODE
More Internal Functions Working with strings
64 How to find the length of a word or sentence in PHP
65 How to count the number of words in a string in PHP
66 Challenge 10 How long is a piece of string – TASK
67 Challenge How long is a piece of string – VIDEO
68 Challenge 10 How long is a piece of string – SOLUTION
69 Challenge 10 How long is a piece of string – CODE
70 How to replace characters in a string
71 How to randomise a string in PHP
72 Challenge 11 Mission impossible – TASK
73 Challenge Mission Impossible – VIDEO
74 Challenge 11 Mission Impossible – SOLUTION
75 Challenge 11 Mission Impossible – CODE
76 Double versus single quotes in PHP
77 How to escape strings in PHP
78 Challenge 12 The Great Escape – TASK
79 Challenge The Great Escape – VIDEO
80 Challenge 12 The Great Escape – SOLUTION
81 Challenge 12 The Great Escape – CODE
How to create and use basic ARRAYS and array functions
82 What is an array in PHP
83 How to loop through an array in PHP
84 How to split a string and place into an array in PHP
85 Challenge 13 ISBN checker – TASK
86 Challenge ISBN Checker – VIDEO
87 Challenge 13 ISBN checker – SOLUTION
88 Challenge 13 ISBN checker – CODE
89 Challenge 14 Mind your language! – TASK
90 Challenge Mind Your Language – VIDEO
91 Challenge 14 Mind your language! – SOLUTION
92 Challenge 14 Mind your language! – CODE
93 How to sort data in an array in PHP
94 How to explode and implode strings
95 How to add elements to an existing array in PHP
96 Challenge 15 Around the world in 80 days – TASK
97 Challenge Around the World in 80 Days – VIDEO
98 Challenge 15 Around the world in 80 days – SOLUTION
99 Challenge 15 Around the world in 80 days – CODE
100 Removing elements from the beginningend of an array
101 How to use array slice() to split an array in PHP
102 Challenge 16 It’s getting hot in here – TASK
103 Challenge It’s getting hot in here – VIDEO
104 Challenge 16 It’s getting hot in here – SOLUTION
105 Challenge 16 It’s getting hot in here – CODE
106 How to select a random element from an array
107 Challenge 17 Pick a card, any card – TASK
108 Challenge Pick a card, any card – VIDEO
109 Challenge 17 Pick a card, any card – SOLUTION
110 Challenge 17 Pick a card, any card – CODE
111 Challenge 18 Let’s go shopping – TASK
112 Challenge Let’s go shopping – VIDEO
113 Challenge 18 Let’s go shopping – SOLUTION
114 Challenge 18 Let’s go shopping – CODE
Associative Arrays in PHP
115 How to understand the structure of an associative array
116 How to loop through an associative array and output the elements
117 Challenge 19 Capital cities of the world – TASK
118 Challenge Capital cities of the world – VIDEO
119 Challenge 19 Capital cities of the world – SOLUTION
120 Challenge 19 Capital cities of the world – CODE
How to create your own functions in PHP
121 How to create a function in PHP
122 How to use variables in PHP functions
123 How to pass arguments to a PHP function
124 How to return a value from a PHP function
125 How to return multiple values from a PHP function
Sessions and Cookies
126 What are sessions and cookies in PHP
127 How to create a cookie in PHP
128 How to read a cookie in PHP
129 How to update a cookie in PHP
130 How to delete a cookie in PHP
131 Challenge 20 All About Me – TASK
132 Challenge 20 All About Me – VIDEO
133 Challenge 20 All About Me – SOLUTION
134 Challenge 20 All About Me – CODE
135 How to create a session in PHP
136 How to read a session in PHP
137 How to update a session in PHP
138 How to delete a session in PHP
139 Challenge 21 Hit Me Baby One More Time – TASK
140 Challenge 21 Hit Me Baby One More Time – VIDEO
141 Challenge 21 Hit Me Baby One More Time – SOLUTION
142 Challenge 21 Hit Me Baby One More Time – CODE
Student Extension Challenges
143 About the extension challenges
144 Challenge 22 Palindromes
145 Challenge 22 Palindromes – SOLUTION
146 Challenge 23 Chessboard
147 Challenge 23 Chessboard – SOLUTION
148 Challenge 25 Fancy a Game of Darts
BONUS
149 Congratulations Bonus Lecture
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