Hands-On Introduction: PHP

Get an interactive, hands-on overview of writing code and building web applications with PHP, one of the most popular scripting languages in the world.

Introduction

• Welcome to hands-on PHP
• What you should know
• Using GitHub Codespaces with this course

1. Manipulating Existing Code

• Validate input
• Update number guessing game
• Coin flip average
• Convert class to singleton
• Namespace a set of conflicting functions

2. Building New Code

• Build a decision maker
• File type analyzer
• Sort a list of files by extension
• Keep track of unique visitors
• Sanitize the input from a form

3. Integrate and Expand

• Extend the person class
• Retrieving information from an API
• Connect to a database
• Extend the people database
• Build a downtime monitor

Conclusion

• Next steps