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A Complete Introduction to PHP

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Provider

egghead.io
Pricing

Paid Course
Languages

English
Duration & workload

2 hours 8 minutes
Sessions

On-Demand

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Overview

Even as of 2022, PHP continues to drive a significant portion of the web. Node is currently what's popular, and before that Ruby was the big thing, but during it all PHP never died.
And not only has PHP never died, it has aged like a fine bottle of wine; continuing to evolve and grow with a strong community backing it.
In this course, you'll be learning the foundational blocks that make up PHP
Project setup and structure
Variables and constants
Features and gotchas of the type system
Advanced conditional logic
Data structures
Loops and other control flows
Functions and scope
Object oriented programming with classes
Once you finish this course you'll have all the skills you'll need to effectively write PHP!

Syllabus

Install PHP with Homebrew
Install a PHP IDE editor
Start the built-in PHP web server
Create a “Hello world!” PHP script
Closing tags, semicolons & line breaks in PHP
Alternate method of calling PHP language constructs
Write short echo tags in PHP
Create & name variables in PHP
PHP data type assignments
Type casting in PHP
Type juggling (coercion) in PHP
Concatenating strings in PHP
String interpolation & escaping in PHP
Create a constant in PHP to store a fixed value
Create a Boolean variable in PHP
Conditionally execute PHP code with an if statement
Write multiple conditions to execute alternate PHP code
Alternate PHP if statement syntax for view files
Refactor a PHP if else statement into a ternary
Use a PHP switch statement for advanced conditional logic
Use a match statement for advanced PHP data checks
Create a list using a PHP array
Display the contents of an array with a foreach loop
Use an array key to determine current iteration
Create a key/value store within a PHP array
Create a nested or multi-dimensional array in PHP
Get the count of a PHP array
Display the contents of an array with a for loop
Continue or break out of a PHP loop
Purpose of a function in PHP
Create a function in PHP
Function & global scope in PHP
Calling functions with return values in PHP
Passing arguments to PHP functions
Defining function return & argument types in PHP
Type coercion & strict data types in PHP
Including or requiring files in PHP
Create & instantiate a class in PHP
Run code on PHP class creation with a constructor
Create class properties in previous versions of PHP
Create promoted properties in PHP 8 classes
Retrieve public class properties with PHP’s arrow syntax
Understanding scope in PHP classes
Refactoring functions into PHP classes
Defining & using PHP namespaces
Replace PHP require statements with the Composer class autoloader

Taught by

Mark Shust

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4.7 rating at egghead.io based on 14 ratings

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