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There are many great reasons to learn PHP. You can reduce manual updates to webpages, get user input, and connect to a database of products or other information. But some web designers are intimidated by the theory and jargon. PHP for Web Designers is different. Author David Powers provides a gentle introduction to PHP, through a series of simple exercises that help you develop fully functional dynamic webpages—all powered by PHP. Learn how to reduce website maintenance by moving common page elements to external server-side include files, change content automatically depending on the date or time, display alternate text, gather user input from a form, and link to a database to display product information. The final chapter is dedicated to understanding error messages and fixing their root causes. Note: This course was recorded with Adobe Dreamweaver, but you can use the code editor of your choice to follow along.

Topics include:
  • How to use PHP in a webpage
  • Storing and displaying text and numbers in variables
  • Using functions
  • Adding comments to your PHP scripts
  • Moving common page elements to include files
  • Displaying different content on a page
  • Working with multiple values in arrays and loops
  • Getting form input sent by the POST method
  • Using PHP sessions to preserve data
  • Storing data in session variables
  • Connecting to and querying a database
  • Handling errors

Deze cursus is enkel beschikbaar in het Engels. Als dit voor u geen probleem vormt, dien dan gerust uw aanvraag in.

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