FREE WHILE IN DRAFT: PHP Programming for Beginners
About Course
This course introduces you to PHP, a popular server-side scripting language used for web development. You’ll learn the fundamentals of PHP programming, including its syntax, data types, control structures, and functions. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to create dynamic web pages and interact with databases using PHP.
Knowing PHP will allow you to build web applications, websites or Content Management systems, like WordPress, Facebook, Twitter or even Google.
There is no limit to what you can do with this knowledge. PHP is one of the most important web programming languages to learn, and knowing it, will give you SUPER POWERS in the web development world and job market place.
Why? Because Millions of websites and applications (the majority) use PHP. You can find a job anywhere or even work on your own, online and in places like freelancer or Odesk. You can definitely make a substantial income once you learn it.
See the above video for a quick overview of PHP.
Course credits: Dani Krossing’s YouTube Channel
Learning Tips For This Course
To learn this course well: 1) view any videos to *understand* the concepts; 2) then read the headings and notes to review the lesson’s main points; 3) next, attempt to write the code from memory at phptester.net (use the headers as guide questions); 4) see if the code executes correctly; and; 5) if any, do any exercises or questions in the lessons.
Course Content
Introduction to PHP
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Overview of PHP and its role in web development
07:45 -
Setting up a PHP development environment
10:44 -
Basic PHP syntax and structure
07:11 -
Creating your first PHP script
14:07