Advance your Skills as a PHP Developer: Core PHP

Deepen your core PHP knowledge by leveraging more of the built-in functionality and libraries. Discover how to use the provided data structure, iterators, interfaces, exceptions, and classes to get the job done.

• Practice working with the Standard PHP Library (SPL).
• Learn to securely manage files and emails.
• Build clean URLs.

• Course 1: Learning the Standard PHP Library
• Learn how to use the iterators and data structures in the Standard PHP Library to traverse, filter, and sort data.
• Course 2: PHP: Exporting Data to Files
• Learn how to export data from a database with PHP in a variety of formats, including: rich text, CSV, Excel, Word, OpenOffice spreadsheets and documents, and even XML.
• Course 3: PHP: Resizing and Watermarking Images
• Learn how to batch process images with the PHP GD functions. Watermark photos and generate different sizes ready for use in responsive web design.
• Course 4: PHP: Email with Swift Mailer
• Learn how to use PHP to programmatically send email, including HTML email and personalized bulk email, with Swift Mailer, the free PHP library.
• Course 5: PHP: Clean URLs on Apache Server
• Optimize your URLs for search engines and site visitors. Learn how to use the Apache mod_rewrite module to create clean URLs for PHP sites.