Course Details

3 credits

PHP Programming (Online)

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Course Description

Course objectives consists of learning the PHP scripting language and how it is used to create dynamic content for web pages through the use of variables, functions, and objects along with data types and operators. Also covers the use of the PHP language to: Process web page based forms, read and write cookies, perform server side file I/O and access databases.

Objectives

  1. Students should be able to interpret written programming specifications
  2. Students should be able to debug and test PHP scripts
  3. Students should be able to configure a computer to act as a PHP development environment
  4. Students should be able to write procedural and object oriented PHP scripts
  5. Students should be able to write PHP scripts that interact with the servers filesystem and databases
  6. Students should be able to create CRUD interfaces in PHP
  7. Students should be able to use sessions and cookies

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