PHP Intermediate Course
If you are looking to break into the lucrative world of software development then our PHP training courses will take you from fundamentals to advanced and empower you to pass the PHP certification from Zend.
Each course is independent and there is no requirement to have taken one of the other courses before attending the course of your choice. The only requirement, so you can get the most out of the course, is that you are comfortable with the foundational knowledge required.
PHP Intermediate Course Objectives
PHP Configuration
- Configuration directives
- Run-time settable directives
- Web server PHP and CLI configuration
- Target environment configuration
- Technology stack configuration for the course VM
Object-Oriented PHP - Constructs
- The class construct
- Class constants, properties and methods
- Object instances
- Member visibility
- Static properties and methods
- Inheritance
- Overrides
- Magic methods
- Class and method abstraction
- Object interface
- Type hinting
- Traits
- Namespace
- Object cloning and comparison
- Functions that work with classes
- Exceptions
Object-Oriented PHP - Implementation
- Course application OOP implementation
- File structure organization
- Architectural thought of the course application
- Model/View/Controller design pattern implementation
- Controllers and input classes
- Core classes and their role
- Domain classes, services and business logic
- Form and input classes and abstraction
- Model classes and abstraction, database access and patterns
- View classes and layouts
PHP Standards
- Basic coding standard
- Logger interface and standard
- Autoloading and autoloading standard
- Caching interface and standard
- Messaging interface and standard
Database
- Databases
- The relational database engine
- Structured query language (SQL)
- Data modelling
- PhpMyAdmin MySQL admin
- Terminal MySQL
- PHP data objects (PDO) API
- Prepared statements
- Stored procedure
- Transactions
- Patterns in database design
Internet Communication
- Protocols and ports
- Client/Server
- HTTP/HTTPS
- Client-side
- HTML web forms
- Server-side
- Server-side input validation
- Cookies
- Sessions
- Output control
- Headers and browser caching
Composer
- Composer
- Composer files
- composer.phar
- composer.json
- Important composer commands
- The "vendor" directory
- Composer API docs and packages
Web Services
- Web services
- Data formats
- Parsing APIs
- Web service requests
- Soap services
- RESTful services
- Streams