1

Introduction

• WEB architecture : HTTP, CGI, interactivity : client script or server script.
• What is PHP ?
• PHP review.
• Differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5.
• Presentation of the example used during the course : the Ecommerce web-site.

2

First Web applications in PHP

• Principles of the server-client.
• First language elements.
• Integrating PHP into an HTML page.
• Variables and functions.
• The libraries.
• Basic functions, server and PHP variables.
• Server variable and PHP variable.
• Control of flows and loops.
• Transition and transmission of variables.
• Reading/writing of file.
• Login and password check.
• The redirection.
• Complex variables, tables.
• Array ; Functions linked to tables ; Extraction functions ; Navigation functions in a table.

3

Managing user sessions

• Persistent variables : Cookies and Sessions.
• Pros and cons of Cookies and Sessions.
• Limits and precautions.
• Session variables. Functions linked to session variables.
• The Cookies.
• Serialization of complex variables.
• Use of MySQL data-base : Presentation of MySQL.
• Basic concepts : bases, tables, fields, recordings.
• MySQL basis.
• The tables and the fields.
• The recordings.
• MySQL PHP functions.
• Introduction to the SQL language (selection, modification, deletion) ; Processing of query results.

4

A professional Web application

• Advanced selection functions : search and sorting.
• Graphics in PHP.
• Presentation of the GD library.
• Imaging and re-use.
• Managing typeface and writing in image mode.
• Superposing texts so that rights are protected.
• Integrating into web-site.
• Elaborate statistical graphs.
• Integration of completed modules.