Topics

• Getting started with PHP
• Variables
• Arrays
• Functional Programming
• Types
• Redirection
• Control Structures
• Working with Dates and Time
• Classes and Objects
• JSON
• Using cURL in PHP
• Parsing HTML
• Composer Dependency Manager
• File handling
• Operators
• URLs
• PHPDoc
• Control Structures
• Reading Request Data
• Type juggling and Non-Strict Comparison Issues
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Find nodes that have a specific attribute
• Installing on Linux/Unix Environments
• Contributing to the PHP Core
• PDO
• Outputting the Value of a Variable
• Conditional logic

Examples

• HTML output from web server
• echo and print
• Non-HTML output from web server
• Initializing an Array
• Assignment to variables
• Using outside variables
• Outputting a structured view of arrays and objects
• Hello, World!
• Integers
• Check if key exists
• Strings
• If statement
• Decoding a JSON string
• Encoding a JSON string
• Global variable best practices
• Checking if a value exists in array
• Validating the array type
• Parsing HTML from a string
• What is Composer?
• Basic Usage (GET Requests)
• Convenience functions
• Comparison Operators
• Describing a variable
• Handling file upload errors
• Using JsonSerializable in an Object
• Reading POST data
• Reading GET data
• What is Type Juggling?
• Reading from a file
• Switch surprises
• POST Requests
• Reading raw POST data
• Find nodes with a specific attribute
• Find nodes with a specific attribute value
• Find nodes by substring matching of an attribute's value
• Find nodes by substring matching of an attribute's value (case-insensitive)
• Find nodes by substring matching the start of an attribute's value
• Find nodes by substring matching the end of an attribute's value
• switch
• Uploading files with HTTP PUT
• Installing in Enterprise Linux distributions (CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc)
• Build an URL-encoded query string from an array
• Setting up a basic development environment
• Running built-in web server
• Conditional execution of command lists
• PHP Tags
• printf vs sprintf
• String concatenation with echo
• Using Cookies
• Strict typing
• Passing arrays by POST
• Stream-based file IO