PHP & MySQL

UNIT ONE

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 RECOMMENDED BOOKS
 Learning PHP, MYSQL, and Javascript

◦ By ROBIN NIXON
◦ Publishers- Oreilly

Build your own Database Driven Website Using PHP

and Mysql
By Kelvin Yank
Publishers- Sitepoint.com

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UNIT ONE
INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMIC CONTENT
* HTTP
* WEB SERVERS
* WEB DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGES
* SETTING UP A DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
UNIT TWO
INTRODUCTION TO PHP
* THE PHP LANGUAGE

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UNIT THREE
EXPRESSION AND CONTROL FLOW IN PHP
* EXPRESSIONS
* OPERATORS
* CONDITIONALS
* LOOPING
* IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT CASTING

UNIT FOUR
PHP FUNCTIONS AND OBJECTS
* FUNCTIONS
* INCLUDING AND REQUIRING FILES
* PHP OBJECTS (OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING)

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UNIT FIVE
MYSQL ADMINISTRATION

UNIT SIX
FORM HANDLING
* BUILDING FORMS
UNIT SEVEN
• COOKIES, SESSION AND AUTHENTICATION
UNIT EIGHT
PROJECT

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 HTTP

 WEB SERVERS

 WEB DEV. LANGUAGES

 INTRANET/ INTERNET APPLICATIONS

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 HTTP is a communication standard governing the
requests and responses that take place between the
browser running on the end user’s computer and the
web server.

 The server’s job is to accept a request from the client

and attempt to reply to it in a meaningful way,
usually by serving up a requested web page—that’s
why the term server is used

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 A web server can usually handle multiple
simultaneous connections and—when not
 communicating with a client—spends its time

listening for an incoming connection.

 When one arrives, the server sends back a

response to confirm its receipt

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1. You enter http://server.com into your
browser’s address bar.

2. Your browser looks up the IP address for

server.com.

3. Your browser issues a request for the home

page at server.com.

4. The request crosses the Internet and arrives at

the server.com web server.

5. The web server, having received the request,

looks for the web page on its hard disk.
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6. The web page is retrieved by the server and
returned to the browser.

7. Your browser displays the web page.

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WEB SERVERS (SOFTWARE)

 Apache
 IIS
 Novell's Web Server (Novel OS)
 Lotus Domino servers (IBM)
 JBoss(Mostly used in Eclipse)
 GlassFish (For Java EEE using netbeans)

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 Other Web servers include :
 Novell's Web Server for users of its NetWare

operating system

 IBM's family of Lotus Domino servers,

primarily for IBM's OS/390 and AS/400
customers.

 Assignment look for other Web Servers

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 WEB PROGRAMMING

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WEB PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

 PHP
 ASP.NET
 RUGBY RAIL
 JAVA
 PHTHON
 etc

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WEB DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
 Developing a Web Application in PHP does not require and
special program.

 Therefore what you need is a text editor or a program that

supports text editing.
 Eg. NotePad
 NotePad ++
 DreamWeaver
 Netbeans
 You can also use a Framework
 Eg. CakePHP, EasyPHP, Laravel etc

 A Web Server (Localhost)

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