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    PHP for Beginners: Your Guide to Easily Learn PHP In 7 Days
    PHP for Beginners: Your Guide to Easily Learn PHP In 7 Days
    PHP for Beginners: Your Guide to Easily Learn PHP In 7 Days
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    PHP for Beginners: Your Guide to Easily Learn PHP In 7 Days

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    This book contains the steps, strategies, and concepts you need to learn PHP – an extremely popular scripting language designed primarily for web development. This training material was conceptualized and developed to help beginners of diverse backgrounds to master the powerful features of PHP and effectively learn the skills they need to launch their own PHP website in as fast as one day.

    Web development enthusiasts, absolute beginners, and self-learners will find this book a practical, enjoyable, and reliable resource for learning the hottest and most efficient server side scripting language which is a general purpose programming language at the same time. Whether you want to launch a lucrative career in web development or you simply want to put up your own interactive website, this training offers a straightforward, fast, and inexpensive way to start.

    This visual-aided instructional book provides a thorough step-by-step guide to help you optimize the available tools and connectivity features. It presents the precise steps from the beginning to the end goal of launching your very own website the PHP way. 

    PHP is widely known for its simplicity, security, efficiency, familiarity, and flexibility which make it a must-learn language for web developers and website owners. PHP is used to handle forms, set cookies and access cookies variables, restrict users' access to specific areas in your web pages, and encrypt data. You can use it to add, delete, or edit, and manage database elements in your website. It can perform system function such as creating, opening, reading, writing, and closing system files. It is used to develop GUI applications.

    The book "PHP for Beginners:  Your Guide To Easily Learn PHP Programming in 7 Days" provides a comprehensive and practical training to help you optimize the many useful features of this easy-to-learn scripting language. 
    Before you can begin to study PHP, you have to set up the environment for developing programs and writing scripts in PHP. The book offers a step-by-step guide to help you prepare your computer for PHP. You can use this environment for developing, testing, and eventually, launching your own website. This set up comes at no additional cost because it uses open source applications that are as powerful and as popular as their commercial counterparts. 
    The book will help you acquire the skills you will need to fully utilize PHP's capabilities and built-in features. It provides the ultimate resources you need to build interactive web pages with dynamic content using clear and tested examples. 
    This resource material provides both basic and advanced training in PHP programming. 
    You will learn the essential information you need to be an efficient and effective PHP programmer. It discusses PHP syntax and coding standards at length to help you avoid the common and often costly mistakes that beginners make.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhiteFlowerPublsihing
    Release dateAug 20, 2017
    ISBN9781386009733
    PHP for Beginners: Your Guide to Easily Learn PHP In 7 Days

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    PHP for Beginners - i Code Academy

    INTRODUCTION

    Welcome to this training for the Kindle edition of the PHP for Beginners:  Your Guide To Easily Learn PHP Programming in 7 Days.

    This book contains the steps, strategies, and concepts you need to learn PHP – an extremely popular scripting language designed primarily for web development. This training material was conceptualized and developed to help beginners of diverse backgrounds to master the powerful features of PHP and effectively learn the skills they need to launch their own PHP website in as fast as one day.

    Web development enthusiasts, absolute beginners, and self-learners will find this book a practical, enjoyable, and reliable resource for learning the hottest and most efficient server side scripting language which is a general purpose programming language at the same time. Whether you want to launch a lucrative career in web development or you simply want to put up your own interactive website, this training offers a straightforward, fast, and inexpensive way to start.

    This visual-aided instructional book provides a thorough step-by-step guide to help you optimize the available tools and connectivity features. It presents the precise steps from the beginning to the end goal of launching your very own website the PHP way.

    PHP is a general purpose scripting language with many possibilities. A server side scripting language that can be embedded in HTML, it is a popular choice for web developers. Roughly 80% of today’s websites use it for a wide range of purposes including managing dynamic content, session tracking, databases, and e-commerce.

    PHP is widely known for its simplicity, security, efficiency, familiarity, and flexibility which make it a must-learn language for web developers and website owners. PHP is used to handle forms, set cookies and access cookies variables, restrict users’ access to specific areas in your web pages, and encrypt data. You can use it to add, delete, or edit, and manage database elements in your website. It can perform system function such as creating, opening, reading, writing, and closing system files. It is used to develop GUI applications.

    The book PHP for Beginners:  Your Guide To Easily Learn PHP Programming in 24 Hours provides a comprehensive and practical training to help you optimize the many useful features of this easy-to-learn scripting language.

    Before you can begin to study PHP, you have to set up the environment for developing programs and writing scripts in PHP. The book offers a step-by-step guide to help you prepare your computer for PHP. You can use this environment for developing, testing, and eventually, launching your own website. This set up comes at no additional cost because it uses open source applications that are as powerful and as popular as their commercial counterparts.

    The book will help you acquire the skills you will need to fully utilize PHP’s capabilities and built-in features. It provides the ultimate resources you need to build interactive web pages with dynamic content using clear and tested examples.

    This resource material provides both basic and advanced training in PHP programming.

    You will learn the essential information you need to be an efficient and effective PHP programmer. It discusses PHP syntax and coding standards at length to help you avoid the common and often costly mistakes that beginners make. This book devotes several chapters to data types and operators to help you learn them by heart and use them to achieve the objectives of any applications you may want to create. You will learn how to make codes that uses decision making statements and loops to handle more complicated programming and simulate real life situations.

    PHP provides the tools you need to track visits to your website and help you create a relevant, meaningful, and ultimate browsing experience for your visitors. This book will help you learn how to set, access, and use cookies as well as open and use a session for each visit. You will also learn to create scripts to enable your user to give feedback or communicate with you through email or message right on your website.

    One of the most powerful features of PHP is its ability to interact with databases. PHP will work with virtually all types of database applications. You can use this book to learn how to use PHP to manage your database operations from content creation to content management and maintenance.

    Error handling and debugging are important aspects of programming and development. Like other programming languages, PHP offers a range of options to help make sure that your application is running as smoothly as it should be. An entire chapter is devoted to the techniques and procedures to control how errors should be flagged, thrown, and reported. Another chapter is dedicated to debugging and identifying program and syntax errors.

    For all its versatility as a general purpose programming language, PHP is, likewise, an object oriented language. You will learn how to use this aspect of PHP to create even more meaningful programs that use classes and objects and take advantage of features such as inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, constructors, and destructors.

    PHP offers a wide range of built-in functions to automate many tasks and make programming more efficient. This book provides tested and reusable examples of these functions.

    This training will equip you with the best practices, tips, and strategies used by many web application developers and programmers. It offers a straightforward, enjoyable, and practical way to learn PHP programming in as little time as possible.

    At the end of this book, you will gain the confidence to create dynamic and interactive web pages, launch your own website, and enhance existing websites.

    Can you learn PHP programming in 24 hours? This training will prove that you can. PHP is such an easy language to learn that if you focus on acquiring the essential skills, you will be able to master its nuances and become productive in a short span of time regardless of your programming level.

    Thank you for downloading this book. May you enjoy learning PHP programming and may it help you achieve your career and personal goals.

    Chapter 1: GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH PHP

    PHP – A BRIEF HISTORY

    PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a general purpose HTML-embedded server side scripting language. Rasmus Lerdorf, its creator, introduced the initial version of PHP in 1994. Originally intended to be a small project to track visits to his resume, many users realized how useful it was. The overwhelming response to this open source project encouraged Rasmus to produce a much richer and bigger implementation culminating in the introduction of PHP/F1. In June 1998, the collaborative efforts of Rasmus, Zeev Suraski, and Andi Gutmans produced PHP 3.0, a new and independent programming language. While it enabled the use of third party databases, PHP 3.0 was not optimized for handling complex applications.

    Shortly afterwards, Suraski and Gutmans started to rewrite PHP’s core. In May 2000, they released PHP 4.0, a much improved version based on the Zend Engine (a combination of Suraski and Gutmans’ first name). Its main features included support for more servers, output buffering, additional language constructs, HTTP sessions, and better security in handling user input.

    Several years of work by a team of developers culminated in the launching of PHP 5. It packs a slew of new features and object model based on the Zend Engine 2.0.

    Today, PHP is estimated to be installed on at least a hundred million domains all over the globe.

    PHP is integrated with major databases such as Orace, Postgre SQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, and Sybase. It supports major protocols such as LDAP, IMAP, and POP3. It also strengthened support for Java as well as CORBA and COM.

    WHY SHOULD YOU LEARN PHP?

    PHP is a widely used scripting and general purpose programming language for many different reasons.

    You can use it to write, open, create, read, close, and delete files on a system.

    It can perform several form handling processes including gathering and sending data to a file, sending information though email, and returning data to a user.

    You can use PHP to add, update, or delete data in your databases. It supports several database management systems such as MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase.

    With PHP, you can control a site user’s access to your web pages.

    PHP lets you send, set,

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