PHP and MySQL – Head First Book

Chapter 1: Adding Life to Web Pages with PHP

• Goals
  • Learn the basic syntax and commands of PHP
• Terms
  • HTML
  • PHP
  • Web Form
  • Browser
  • <?php ?>
  • Variable
  • Quotes
  • Echo
  • $_POST
  • Web Server
  • Array
  • Superglobal
  • Mail()
• Concepts
  • HTML on Client side
  • PHP on Server side
  • PHP Syntax and command structure
• Resources
  • Graphical Secure File Transfer Applications
    • Fugu (Mac)
    • WinSCP (Windows)
  • SSH (Secure Shell) Client
    • Terminal (Mac) – is already on all Macs
    • PuTTY (Windows and Unix)
  • HTML Editor
    • Kompozer
  • phpMyAdmin
    • Hulk Server Access
  • Head First PHP & MySQL Book
    • Download: It’s Alive: Add Life to Your Static Pages
• Projects
  • Aliens Abducted Me HTML Form
    • Build a HTML form
      • Read pages 1 – 7 in book
      • Create report.html
        • You can download from the Head First web site linked above.
        • It’s in the chapter 1 download titled cho1
        • within the initial folder
      • Publish the initial folder, with the report.html file in it, on your hulk account
      • Post a blog entry detailing what you learned and place a link to your report.html file on hulk
  • Aliens Abducted Me PHP Form
    • Build aPHP form
      • Read pages 8 – 57 in book
      • Create report.php
        • You can download from the Head First web site linked above.
        • It’s in the chapter 1 download titled cho1
        • within the final folder
      • Publish the final folder, with the report.php file in it, on your hulk account
      • Post a blog entry detailing what you learned and place a link to your report.php file on hulk
  • Quiz at end of exercises
    • Be prepared to Answer all three of the Brain Power questions and both Sharpen Pencil challenges

Chapter 2: Connecting to MySQL with PHP

• Goals
  • Learn how to connect PHP to MySQL database and enter data from a web form
• Terms
  • MySQL database server
  • Database
  • Table
  • query
  • mysqli_connect()
  • mysqli_close()
  • mysqli_query()
  • mysqli_select_db()
• Concetps
  • Database interactivity with PHP scripts
• Resources
  • Demonstration Screencast Video
  • Download:
    • How It Fits Together: Connecting to MySQL
• Projects
  • Build the alien_abduction table in MySQL
    • Pages 64-69 in the book
  • Modify Report.php to submit entries into database
    • Pages 65-95
    • Publish to hulk
    • Create a blog entry with link to working report.html form in the CH02 folder
  • Use queries to look at the information in the database
    • Pages 96-98

Chapter 3: More MySQL Basics