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Learn By Example: PHP For Dynamic Websites

Super-practical PHP: cookies, sessions, login authentication, MySQL integration, Object Oriented PHP and lots more!

What's Inside

Super-practical PHP: Learn, by example, how to build a smart website with cookies, sessions, login authentication, MySQL integration, Object Oriented PHP and lots more!

Let's parse that.

This course is super-practical: packed with knowledge you can put to use right away, while still giving you a good foundational understanding of web programming, not just PHP.

Its about building smart websites: these days, its not OK for a website just to look snappy - login, cookies and sessions are considered necessities, not luxuries anymore

In this course, we will learn by example. Each example is self-contained, has its source code attached, and gets across a specific PHP use-case. Each example is simple by itself, but they come together as building blocks to build complex use cases.

What's included in this course:

Installing and setting up a basic web server with PHP

Web security basics: validating and sanitizing user input data. Web forms, mitigating XSS and XSRF attacks

MySQL Integration and Installation: Connecting to a database, running queries, processing results, prepared statements. Easy integration with MySQL so it's dead simple to work with databases for permanent data storage

Cookies, Sessions and the differences between them, using sessions without cookies

End to end login authentication

Object oriented PHP, classes, inheritance, polymorphism

GET, POST and other superglobals

Course Curriculum

Installing and setting up PHP

What is PHP? - 19:07
Start
Installing PHP (Windows) - 9:45
Start
Installing PHP (Mac) - 11:55
Start

Basic Constructs In The PHP Language

Example 1 : Ensure PHP is installed and running on your server - 5:05
Start
Example 2 : PHP outputs HTML - 8:43
Start
Example 3 : Variables - containers of data - 7:52
Start
Example 4 : Data Types - strings, integers, booleans, doubles - 9:32
Start
Example 5 - Decisions using If-Else and Switch Statements - 18:29
Start
Example 6 : Strings - single quotes, double quotes, what's the difference? - 11:45
Start
Example 7 : Logical Operators - 16:43
Start
Example 8 : Introduction to Web Forms - 12:38
Start
Example 8 : The GET Request - 14:55
Start
Example 8 : The POST Request and differences between GET and POST - 9:48
Start

Web Forms, Validating And Sanitizing User Input, Mitigating Security Risks

Example 8 : Web Form Processing - 5:26
Start
Example 9 : Superglobals - 16:34
Start
Example 10 : The htmlspecialchars() function and XSS mitigation - 14:05
Start
Example 10 : Sanitizing user input - 5:28
Start
Example 11 : Validating user input - 15:16
Start
Example 11 : Putting it all together - 9:16
Start
Configure sending email using a Gmail account (Windows) - 12:53
Start
Configure sending email using a Gmail account (Mac) - 9:28
Start
Example 12 : Write code to send mail - 7:36
Start

Intermediate Constructs In The PHP Language

Example 13 - Introduction to arrays - 16:22
Start
Example 13 - Associative arrays - 7:44
Start
Example 13 - Multidimensional Arrays - 7:16
Start
Example 14 - For, While And Do-While Loops - 15:33
Start
Example 14 : Break And Continue - P2 - 8:05
Start
Example 15 - Introduction to functions - 11:05
Start
Example 15 : Pass by Value, Pass By Reference, Default Values - 12:55
Start
Example 16 : Local Variables, Variable Hiding - 10:05
Start
Example 16 : Global and Static Variables - 7:08
Start

PHP and MySQL - A Well Oiled Integration

MySQL Introduction - 3:38
Start
Enabling MySQL and using phpmyadmin (Windows) - 3:05
Start
Installing MySQL (Mac) - 7:03
Start
Using MySQL Workbench (Mac) - 12:47
Start
Getting PHP and MySQL to talk to each other (Mac) - 1:06
Start
Example 17 : Connecting, Running Queries, Closing a Connection - 12:01
Start
Example 18 : Creating a table, Inserting rows - 14:23
Start
Example 19 : Running select queries - 14:04
Start
Example 20 - prepared statements - 11:53
Start

Cookies And Sessions - Stuff Which Makes PHP Cool

Example 21 - Introduction to cookies - 7:42
Start
Example 21 : Setting and accessing cookies - 12:35
Start
Example 21 : Deleting a cookie - 2:57
Start
Example 22 : Introduction to sessions - 12:22
Start
Example 22 : Creating and using sessions - 14:17
Start
Example 22 : Destroying sessions - 6:40
Start
Example 23 : Passing session ids automatically without cookies - 10:28
Start
Example 23 : Working with sessions without cookies - 7:51
Start

Build A Login Authentication System From The Ground Up

Steps to build a login authentication system - 3:12
Start
Example 24 : Including files for code reuse - 9:17
Start
Example 25 : Add signed up users to the Users table - 11:55
Start
Example 25 : The sign up form and protection against Cross Site Request Forgery - 13:48
Start
Example 26 : Logging in and authenticating a user - 11:19
Start
Example 26 : Redirecting to a login success page - 9:05
Start
Example 27 : Checking whether a user is already logged in - 9:35
Start
Example 28 - logout - 5:35
Start

Advanced Constructs in PHP: Object Oriented Programming

What's the big deal about classes? - 8:27
Start
Example 29 : Meet your very first class - 14:12
Start
Example 29 continued: Blueprints and houses, classes and objects - 6:24
Start
Example 30 : The constructor and the destructor - 10:39
Start
Example 31 : Public and private access types - 9:02
Start
Example 32 : Inheritance and modeling is-a relationships - 9:59
Start
Example 32 : Working with base and derived classes - 15:06
Start
Example 33 - The protected access type - 10:12
Start
Example 34 : An object can have multiple forms, polymorphism - 10:55
Start
Example 35 : Final and abstract - 10:44
Start
Example 36 : Trust static variables to be strange even in classes! - 10:29
Start
Example 37 : Constants, as opposed to variables - 7:56
Start
Example 38 : Interfaces, the contract which a class adheres to - 11:20
Start

Some random useful stuff

Example 39 : Filters are more powerful than you first imagined - 17:12
Start
Example 40 : Headers are metadata about browser content - 11:42
Start

Working with files

Example 41 : Read and file and display it's contents - 3:07
Start
Example 42 - common file functions - 2:45
Start
Example 43 : More flexibility with files fopen(), fread() and fclose() - 8:05
Start
Example 44 : Writing to a file using fwrite() - 3:50
Start
Example 45 : Uploading a file to the server - 17:03
Start

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