PHP for Web Designers | 637 MB

duration : 5h 26m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 960x540 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 1ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Appropriate for all | Date : Dec 09, 2013

There are many great reasons to learn PHP. You can reduce manual updates to webpages, get user input, and connect to a database of products or other information. But some web designers are intimidated by the theory and jargon. PHP for Web Designers is different. Author David Powers provides a gentle introduction to PHP, through a series of simple exercises that help you develop fully functional dynamic webpages—all powered by PHP. Learn how to reduce website maintenance by moving common page elements to external server-side include files, change content automatically depending on the date or time, display alternate text, gather user input from a form, and link to a database to display product information. The final chapter is dedicated to understanding error messages and fixing their root causes.

Note: This course was recorded with Adobe Dreamweaver, but you can use the code editor of your choice to follow along.

Topics include:

How to use PHP in a webpage

Storing and displaying text and numbers in variables

Using functions

Adding comments to your PHP scripts

Moving common page elements to include files

Displaying different content on a page

Working with multiple values in arrays and loops

Getting form input sent by the POST method

Using PHP sessions to preserve data

Storing data in session variables

Connecting to and querying a database

Handling errors