Beginners PHP

This is a complete and free PHP programming course for beginners. Everything you need to get started is set out in section one below.

1. What is PHP and Why do I need it?

2. What you need to get started

4. Troubleshooting

1. What is a Variable?

2. Putting text into variables

3. Variables - some practice

4. More variable practice

5. Joining direct text and variable data

6. Adding up in PHP

7. Subtraction

8. Multiplication

9. Division

10. Floating point numbers

1. If Statements

2. Using If Statements

3. if ... else

4. if ... else if

5. Comparison Operators

6. NOT Equal To

7. Less Than and Greater Than

8. What these mean: <=, >=

9. The Switch Statement

10. Logical Operators

11. Boolean Values

12. Operator Precedence - a List

1. The HTML Form

2. The Method Attribute

3. The Post Attribute

4. The Action Attribute

5. The Submit button

6. Getting values from a Text Box

7. Checking if the Submit button was clicked

8. More on the ACTION attribute

9. Keep data the user entered

10. PHP and Radio Buttons

11. PHP and Checkboxes

1. For Loops

2. A Times Table Programme

3. The Code for the PHP Times Table

4. While Loops

5. Do ... While loops

6. The break statement

1. What is an Array?

2. Setting up an Array in PHP

3. Getting at the values stored in Arrays

4. Arrays - Using Text as Keys

5. Arrays and For Each

6. Sorting Array values

7. Random Keys from an Array

8. The count function

9. Some Array Scripts

1. Changing Case

2. Trimming White Space

3. Shuffle characters

4. Finding String Positions with strpos

5. Splitting a line of text

6. Joining text into a single line

7. PHP and Escaping

8. String function list

1. An Introduction to Functions

2. Variable scope and functions

3. Functions and Arguments

4. A Function to check for blank text boxes

5. Getting values out of functions

6. By Ref, By Val

7. PHP Server Variables

8. HTTP Header() Function

9. The INCLUDE( ) Function

1. Security Issues And Form Elements

2. htmlspecialchars( )

3. strip_tags( )

1. An Introduction to Working With Files In PHP

2. Opening a file with readfile( )

3. Opening a file with fopen( )

4. Options for fopen( )

5. Writing to files

6. Working with CSV files

7. Reading a text file into an array

8. File Locations

1. The date( ) function

2. Using the date( ) function

3. The getdate( ) Function

1. What you need for these Tutorials

2. Creating a database using phpMyAdmin

3. Setting up Fields in database tables

4. Adding records to a MySQL Table

1. Access a MySQL database with PHP code

2. Reading records from a MySQL database

3. Adding records to a MySQL database

4. Magic Quotes

5. SQL injection

6. Create a Table using SQL

7. Updating a record in a table

8. Deleting a record in a table

9. Using WHERE to limit the data returned

1. PHP User Authentication - Introduction

2. The login page

3. Checking if the user is logged on

4. Log Out

5. Register a new user

6. Other considerations

1. Build your own Survey Application - Intro

2.The Database for the Survey

3. Setting a question – the code

4. The Code for the Survey

5. Add the Vote to the Database

6. Viewing the Results of the Survey

1. Introduction to the Forum

2. Setting up a Database for a bigger project

3. The Forum Sections Table

4. The Members Table

5. The Post Tables

6. The Reply Tables

1. Code Strategies and Objectives

2. The forumTest.php page

3. The pageThread.php page

4. 2D Arrays and PHP

5. How many replies are there for each post

6. Find out which member posted

7. Print the table out

8. The pageReply.php Code

9. The Reply Form

10. The results.php page

11. Posting a Topic on the Forum

12. The resultsP.php page

13. Final Project