PHP - Hyper Text Pre-Processor - Dynamic Web Applications & CLI - Module IV

• Installation
  • Identify Online PHP resources
  • Download PHP
  • Identify Apache prerequisite packages and programs - Modular support (mod.so)
  • Extract, compile and install PHP with Apache modular support
  • Compile and install PHP with Command Line Interface (CLI) support
  • Identify key PHP configuration files & directories
  • Configure Apache httpd.conf with PHP integration to provide PHP support
  • Configure Apache with PHP binary and source support
• PHP Basics
  • Explain PHP-supported long/short/ASP parse-tags & identify configuration changes in php.ini
  • Hello World script output using echo to the web browser
  • Describe the various comments supported by PHP
  • Examine the ouput of PHP-maintained variables using phpinfo()
  • Explain supported data types via variables (integers, strings, floating points, here documents, arrays, etc.)
  • Test instantiation of supported variables with default types
  • Explain Quoting rules and variable interpolation
  • Demonstrate escape sequences such as tab, new lines, spaces, etc.
  • Exercise the echo command
  • Define basic associated arrays (i.e. hashes/dictionaries)
  • Define nested associative arrays
• General Information
  • Examine key CGI PHP-server variables
    • HTTP_USER_AGENT
    • PHP_SELF
    • REQUEST_METHOD
    • DOCUMENT_ROOT
    • REMOTE_ADDR
    • HTTP_REFERRER
  • Explore HTTP GET Request Methods via the URLString and Forms
  • Explore HTTP POST Request Methods via the URLString and Forms
  • NULL Variables
  • Basic Math - PEMDAS
  • Integer and String Comparison Operators
  • Examine execution operators for executing Linux Shell commands and obtaining the ouput
  • Variable assignment via execution operations
  • Illustrate the usage of nested arrays
• Control Structures
  • IF - comparisons against integers and strings
  • Else/Elseif - comparisons against integers and strings
  • Test whether variables are of the same type
  • Comparison negation
  • C-stlye for loops definition and usage
  • Generate HTML option boxes using C-style for loops
  • foreach list iterator loop definition and usage
  • Generate HTML based on the contents of the list iterated by foreach
  • While loops definition and usage
  • Examine filesystem listings using execution operators and while loops
  • do While definition and usage
  • Break
  • Continue
  • Switch - for concise if/elseif conditional examination
• General Information II
  • Discuss the applications of Server Side Includes (SSI)
  • Server Side Includes using require
  • Server Side Includes using include
  • Explain and examine the differences between require and include
  • Demonstrate distributed include applications by including content using HTTP
  • Header, leftnav, body, and footer definition and integration with require/include
  • HTML Form defintion using include and control structures
  • PHP Functions definition and sample usage
  • ISSET & UNSET for examining and controlling variables
  • Discuss the way PHP handles uploaded files
  • Identify key configuration files which affect uploaded files
  • HTTP File I/O - uploads & processing via HTML forms
  • Define back-end action pages to handle HTTP file uploads
  • Examine available file attributes of HTTP-uploaded files
  • PHP SMTP E-mail integration discussion
  • Define scripts to process forms and generate SMTP-based e-mail
  • Examine PHP Mail function options
  • Use mutt on the Linux system to examine PHP-generated SMTP-based e-mail
• PHP - Dynamic Web Programming
  • PHP cookie concepts & usage discussion
  • Cookie definition and examination on server and client system (Mozilla Firefox)
  • Set and unset cookies on client system
  • Make decisions based on the existence of cookies on the client system
  • Session Variables concepts & usage discussion
  • Identify pertinent configuration options for session variables
  • Define session variables
  • Integrate cookies with session variables
  • Download MySQL RDBMS packages for usage with PHP
  • Install MySQL RDBMS for usage with PHP
  • Download the latest phpMyAdmin for installation
  • Install phpMyAdmin with Apache supportfor web-based administration of MySQL RDBMS
  • Recompile PHP for MySQL RDBMS support
  • Update PHP configuration information to support MySQL
  • Define basic database structure for usage
  • Structured Query Language (SQL) integration with PHP
  • Explain steps for connecting PHP scripts to MySQL
  • Define and execute SELECT queries
  • Define and execute INSERT queries
  • Define and execute UPDATE queries
  • Define and execute DELETE queries
  • Forms Processing with MySQL integration
  • Forms with Cookies
  • Forms with Session Variables
• PHP - Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • Discuss concepts and applications
  • Identify CLI binary
  • Discuss the possible ways of executing PHP scripts from the CLI
  • Define and execute PHP one-liners
  • Execute scripts using PHP binary as a prefix
  • Explore executing PHP via the Interpreter mode
  • PHP-Linux SHEBANG definition and usage
  • Execute basic commands
  • CLI - File I/O usage - Stat files
  • Examine file attributes
  • Determine access and modification times and make decisions using control structures
• PHP - Input Validation
  • Define form and action script to process form fields
  • Submit form-fields for processing
  • Examine results
  • Define input validation masks with regular expressions
  • Evaluate results
  • Extend validation masks to command line interface (CLI)
  • Supply PHP CLI with input
  • Confirm validation masks
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