Introduction to PHP

Building Dynamic Websites with PHP
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Mark Newsome (newsome@acm.org)

Syllabus (Spring '11) Cheat-sheets: #1 #2

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CLASS 1

CLASS 2

CLASS 3

CLASS 4

Introduction

What is PHP?
Install WAMP
First PHP page

Development environment
- server admin
- editor
- debugging with logs
Intro
- tags
- date example
- variables
- math operators
- for-loop
PHP Links

flow control,
forms, file processing,
building web apps

Install WAMP
Arrays
- associative vs numeric
Flow-control
File processing
- dynamic photo album
- code

Forms

PHP + mySQL

Install WAMP
MySQL + phpMyAdmin
SQL tutorial

Support files
- songs schema
- clients schema
Working with MySQL (clients)
- print db table
- 12-2 src
- 12-3 src
- 12-4 src
- 12-5 src
- 12-6 src
- 12-7 src
- 12-9 src (insert)
- 12-10 src (delete)
- update src
Songs database (songs)
- query songs src

Dynamic Images

Install WAMP

include files
define() constants
More strings
Image creation
(gd library site)
1. image-form (src)
2. image-text (src)
3. bar-graph (src)

Assignment #1: in-class

#2 Form processing

#3: Query a music db

#4: Dynamic Image Text