PHP Essentials for Web Development

SPRING Semester 2008 Dates: 2/8/08 - 16/8/08
AUTUMN Semester 2009 Dates: Run on Demand
Times: Saturdays 09:00am - 4pm
Duration: 18 hours (6 hours x 3 weeks)
Fees: $1000.00
Venue: City campus - Building 10

Expressions and Enrolment

If you are interested in this course, please submit an Expression of Interest form to register your interest. Please note if you wish to enroll into this short course, you must also submit an Application Form [PDF 114k] to pay for and secure a place. Submission of an application form is confirmation of your intent to enroll and terms and conditions will apply.

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Who should attend
Course Objectives
Course Description
Course Outline

Who Should Attend?

This course is aimed at people who wish to:

  • gain professional knowledge of PHP
  • use PHP’s capabilities to develop web pages

Participants should have basic computer literacy, including the use of application software such as word-processors, spreadsheets and or databases and understanding of the Internet. Prior familiarity with elementary programming concepts such as storing of data in variables, datatypes, arrays, functions and control logic (if statements and loops) is mandatory as the course will assume familiarity with these concepts.. Familiarity with elementary HTML is desirable but not essential.

Course Objectives

At the end of this short course the student will be able to:

  • Understand the Basics of using PHP
  • Understand how to access databases (such as MySQL) using PHP
  • Understand how to set up sessions using PHP
  • Understand how to set up websites using PHP.

Course Description

PHP is a scripting language used to produce web pages. It can be used to access databases, produce dynamic web pages and run e-commerce web sites. Along with Perl and ASP pages, PHP is one of the most popular methods of running medium to large websites. PHP is an open source product and runs on a variety of platforms including Microsoft windows, Linux and Solaris. This course will teach PHP programming, how to access databases using PHP and the techniques used to run websites using PHP.

Course Outline

  • Introduction to scripting languages – their networking context.
  • PHP Programming to produce web pages
    • Scripts
    • Variables
    • Loops
    • Arrays
    • Functions
  • Form Processing in PHP
  • Accessing Databases
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • Real World websites using PHP

Staff Resume

Dr Elaine Lawrence is a full time member of academic staff

For more information contact Dr Elaine Lawrence