Advance your Skills as a PHP Developer: Working with Data

Take the complexity out of working with data by learning how to connect to databases and manipulate values using PHP. Learn how to fetch result sets by executing queries, discover how to implement persistent sessions, find out how to simplify access to directories, and more.

• Learn how to use PDO and MySQLi to access databases.
• Manage persistent sessions between servers and clients.
• Practice asynchronously loading content to your site using Ajax.

• Course 1: Consuming RESTful APIs in PHP with Guzzle
• Learn how to consume REST APIs using Guzzle, a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and integrate with web services.
• Course 2: PHP: Accessing Databases with PDO and MySQLi
• Learn how to access and manipulate databases using the object-oriented PHP extensions PDO and MySQLi.
• Course 3: PHP: Managing Persistent Sessions
• Learn how to store persistent PHP session data in a SQL server and create an auto-login system that recognizes returning users.
• Course 4: Ajax with PHP: Add Dynamic Content to Websites
• Add dynamic, asynchronously loading content to websites to make them more modern, professional, and user friendly, with Ajax and PHP.