Background and History of PHP
• Why PHP is so popular.
Incorporating PHP into HTML
• Using PHP to create HTML.
• Escaping characters.
• Comments.
Processing Form Data
• Displaying PHP variables as HTML.
• Receiving variables from a form and displaying them in the browser.
Validating Form Data
• Conditional tests.
• Exiting out of PHP.
Sending Email from a Web Page
• Use of different headers.
• Security and preventing server abuse.
Embedded “Include” and “Require” Files
• Making life easy and your designs consistent.
Exporting Data
• Writing to a text file.
• Magic Quotes and Stripslashes.
• File permissions.
• Writing to a database.
• Creating a table in a database.
• MySQL Datatypes.
Importing Data
• Reading data from a database.
• Searching with SQL.
• Using loops to display multiple records.
• Creating a table with alternating row colours.
• Database backup tools.
Creating Re-useable Functions
• Declaring a function.
• Calling a function.
• Returning a value from a function.
Password Protecting Pages and Data
• Validating usernames and passwords with those stored in a database.
Troubleshooting, Further Reading and Exploration
• PHP, HTML5 and CSS3