Practical PHP

This course is intended for people who have taken our PHP for beginners course or who have been using PHP for a while and want to write their web applications faster, more secure and with more features.

Practical PHP covers the following topics:

• Rapid application development and frameworks: Automatically generate your PHP code and save weeks of writing the same code over and over.
• Sessions: Pass data between your scripts the secure way. Ideal for shopping carts and larger projects.
• Security: Try to hack your own web site and learn how to fix the most common security mistakes.
• Dynamic images: Create buttons, captchas and other images on-the-fly.

If you are interested in using a database as a backend for your web sites, you might be interested in one of the following 1-day or 2-evenings courses which cover basic database design, database configuration and performance tuning as well as an introduction to SQL:

• MySQL for beginners
• Postgresql for beginners