TOC: PHP programming

• PHP
  1. About - History
  2. HTTP: A few words about how the web works
  3. Hello world
  4. Hello world, no HTML
  5. HTML inside PHP
  6. phpinfo
  7. Comments
  8. Errors
  9. print vs echo
  10. Numbers
  11. Numerical Operations
  12. Strings - concatenation
  13. Variables
  14. Variable interpolation (or variable expansion)
  15. String functions
  16. addslashes
  17. stripslashes
  18. trim - remove white spaces from both ends of a string
• PHP - Arrays
  1. Array
  2. Associative Array
  3. Array in key/value pairs
  4. Array in key/value pairs using each
  5. sort
  6. asort
  7. ksort
  8. Special Arrays
  9. The _SERVER variable
  10. A simple form
  11. A simple calculator
  12. If statement
  13. for loop
  14. Exercise: improve the calculator
  15. Exercise: keep values in the fields
• PHP - Files
  1. Read from file
  2. Fail to open file
  3. Checking if open file succeded
  4. Checking if open file succeded - suppress warnigs
  5. Read CSV file
  6. Open file to read or write
  7. Write to a file
  8. Fail to write to a file
  9. Registration form - save to fill
  10. copy - Copy a file
  11. unlink - Delete a file
  12. chmod
  13. chown - Change owner
  14. Get current working directory - getcwd
  15. Show source
• PHP - PCRE - Perl compatible Regular Expressions
  1. preg_match - PHP Regex Match
• PHP - more
  1. Send mail
  2. Phonebook
  3. Exercise: enlarge the phonebook
  4. Exercise: enable editing the entries
  5. Exercise: complex
  6. Parse XML file
  7. Functions
  8. Resources
• PHP - mysql
  1. MySQL - connect
  2. Fetch data from MySQL server
  3. INSERT data into MySQL
• Testing PHP
  1. Starting the server
  2. Almost manually testing add()
  3. Print expected values as well
  4. Compare actual with expected values and print only pass/fail
  5. Refactor to get assertTrue
  6. Introduction to the PHP SimpleTest framework
  7. assertTrue in SimpleTest
  8. SimpleTest showing success
  9. assertEqual showing the actual values
  10. SimpleTest showing description of error
  11. PHP SimpleTest
  12. Testing PHP on the command line
  13. Testing PHP Application
  14. Check web page content
  15. Check web page title
  16. Check web page content a failure
  17. Checking forms
  18. Submit form
  19. Check for text that should not be there.
• Testing PHP with PHPUnit
  1. Introduction to PHPUnit
  2. assertTrue with PHPUnit
  3. PHPunit showing success
  4. PHPUnit with assertEqual
  5. assetEqual with message
  6. Installing PHP Unit