Course Details
Skill level
Beginner
Certificate
Available
What You Will Learn?
- The core concepts and basics of PHP
- How to write tidy and readable code
- What are PHP operators, PHP for loops, PHP arrays and PHP classes
Description
If you want to learn PHP, this is the right course for you. Starting with all of the PHP basics is a great way to familiarise yourself with the syntax and the process of what it takes to become a PHP developer. This course focuses on hands-on coding and practice, so it's the perfect way to learn PHP for a complete beginner. No prior knowledge of coding is required.
The Best Way To Learn PHP Code is By Coding
This coding for beginners course incorporates three aspects of learning. You will be able to learn all of the PHP basics and immediately apply the knowledge you’ve learned in practice. Furthermore, all of the code that you will write will be visually represented within the course. Following this process, you'll be able to track the progress of your studies visually.
A New Approach To Learning
A whole team worked on this course to make it the best learning experience for you. This PHP tutorial is an innovative and interactive learning experience that fuses countless hours of work done by educators, designers, programmers, narrators and gamification experts. When you finish this PHP tutorial, you will know the basics of PHP. Don't miss your chance to learn PHP and kickstart your career as a PHP developer.
The exercises in this course provide a strong foundation for future studies. After completing this course, you will understand all of the PHP basics - even if you had not written a single line of PHP code before you started it! Upon this foundation, you will build your professional career as a developer.
PHP Newbies Step Right Here
This course is tailored towards complete PHP beginners. That’s why you should enroll in the course even if you’ve never written a single line of code before. Step-by-step, we’ll start with the very basics. And by incorporating a healthy dose of theory combined with practice, you'll be well on your way to becoming a PHP developer.
Requirements
- No pre-knowledge is required - enthusiasm is all you need!
- A PC or Mac is required. Mobile not supported yet;
- No special software is required in advance of the course.
Curriculum
Section 1: Introduction to PHP
- Lecture 1: PHP in Action
- Lecture 2: Learn PHP
- Lecture 3: PHP/HTML
- Lecture 4: Semicolons
- Lecture 5: Echo
- Lecture 6: Strings
- Lecture 7: Arithmetic
- Lecture 8: Variables
- Lecture 9: Comments
- Lecture 10: Creating a Variable
- Lecture 11: Computations
- Lecture 12: Echo time!
Section 2: Conditionals and Control Flow
- Lecture 1: Comparisons
- Lecture 2: IF statement
- Lecture 3: ELSE
- Lecture 4: IF/ELSE
- Lecture 5: Switch statements
- Lecture 6: Switch Syntax
- Lecture 7: Falling Through
- Lecture 8: Using "Endswitch"!
- Lecture 9: All On Your Own!
Section 3: Arrays in PHP
- Lecture 1: Arrays?
- Lecture 2: Array Syntax
- Lecture 3: Your first array!
- Lecture 4: Accessing arrays with []
- Lecture 5: Accessing arrays with {}
- Lecture 6: Modifying Arrays
- Lecture 7: Deleting array elements
Section 4: For Loops in PHP
- Lecture 1: What's a Loop?
- Lecture 2: 'For' Loop Syntax
- Lecture 3: Writing Your First 'For' Loop
- Lecture 4: Loops + Arrays = ForEach
- Lecture 5: Practicing with ForEach
- Lecture 6: All On Your Own!
Section 5: While loops
- Lecture 1: Looping
- Lecture 2: While loop
- Lecture 3: Writing while loop
- Lecture 4: Endwhile
- Lecture 5: Do-while loops
- Lecture 6: Ending the loop
- Lecture 7: Trying it out by yourself
Section 6: Functions part 1
- Lecture 1: Introduction to functions
- Lecture 2: Introducing string function
- Lecture 3: Advanced string functions
- Lecture 4: Introduction to math functions
- Lecture 5: Advanced math functions
- Lecture 6: Introduction to array functions
- Lecture 7: Advanced array functions
- Lecture 8: Try it by yourself!
Section 7: Functions part 2
- Lecture 1: Remembering functions
- Lecture 2: Function syntax
- Lecture 3: Creating your first function
- Lecture 4: Using your function
- Lecture 5: The return keyword
- Lecture 6: Parameters and arguments
- Lecture 7: All together!
Section 8: Object-Oriented PHP
- Lecture 1: Classes and objects
- Lecture 2: Class and object methods
- Lecture 3: Inheritance
- Lecture 4: Overriding parent methods
- Lecture 5: Using Final
- Lecture 6: Scope Resolutions and Class Constants
- Lecture 7: The static keyword
- Lecture 8: Try it all together
Section 9: Arrays and maps
- Lecture 1: Remembering arrays
- Lecture 2: Associative Arrays
- Lecture 3: Arrays as maps
- Lecture 4: Accessing associative arrays
- Lecture 5: Iteration of associative arrays
- Lecture 6: Multidimensional arrays
- Lecture 7: Try it by yourself!
