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Sign up for a free Heroku account, create an app, and deploy from GitHub using automatic or manual deployments, linking your repo to Heroku for hosting with scalable infrastructure.
Explore switch statements in PHP, compare them to if else, and learn how to define cases, use break, and a default branch to control output and readability.
Define and call user defined functions in PHP using the function keyword, names, and parameters. Demonstrate passing by value and by reference, scope, and returning results to enable reusable code.
Use PHP include and require to modularize pages, centralize header and footer snippets in the includes folder, and keep a consistent menu across all pages, with dynamic titles via variables.
Learn how to deploy PHP sites to Heroku by linking GitHub repositories, using manual and automatic deploys, and managing branches, remotes, and a subdomain on Heroku.
Create a PHP web project from scratch by organizing a baseline folder, using includes for header and footer, and integrating bootstrap with a container layout.
Learn how a PHP form uses the $_GET method and action to pass form data via a query string and display submitted values on the success page.
Demonstrate using the PHP $_POST method to submit form data securely, replacing GET to keep values off the URL and access submissions via the post superglobal.
Learn to design a database with phpMyAdmin (MariaDB/MySQL), creating an attendance database with two tables (attendees and specialties), and establishing a foreign key relationship.
View a single record’s details by passing the record id via a query string, fetch the data with a get attendee details function, and display joined fields.
Upload your GHB forms project to GitHub using GitHub Desktop, create and publish a local repository, and track changes with commits and pushes to origin before deploying to Heroku.
Configure a PHP attendance app to dispatch a confirmation email on form submission, linking to a success page, via composer installed SendGrid on Heroku with API keys.
For the final chapter, we will:
- Fix the Footer (Make it stick to the bottom of the page)
- Deploy to Heroku
Overview
This course is designed to equip students with the skills required for creating dynamic web pages using PHP and MySQL. It further equips students with the fundamentals of PHP programming, while providing them with advanced features of the language. Immerse yourself in an end-to-end full-stack development experience, as we explore user interface design, business logic and hosting activities.
By the end of this course, you will be able to build an attractive PHP application; styled using Bootstrap 4; track and manage changes with GitHub and deploy a fully data-driven application to Heroku Cloud Hosting.
Why Learn Development with PHP
PHP was designed to make web development easier, and many beginners find it effortless to pick up and get started with. In fact, PHP code was so easy to pick up, many non-programmers end up being able to write PHP application in no time!
The top 5 reasons to learn PHP are:
Beginner Friendliness
Designed to Scale
Active Support Community
Career Opportunities
Future
This course is practical and will equip you with all you need to build a fully functional web application, add it to source control using GitHub and finally, host it on Heroku.
Languages and Technologies Used:
PHP (HyperText Pre-Processor) - Server-Side Programming Language that allows us to build dynamic and data driven applications
HTML and CSS - Standard Web Languages used to design web pages
Visual Studio Code (With extensions) - Development tool or IDE to help us write code faster.
XAMPP Server - To facilitate Apache and MySQL Servers
PhpMyAdmin - MySQL Management Tool built into XAMPP Server
GitHub - For Source Control and collaboration
Heroku - For publishing website(s) PHP Application to the Cloud (Free with restrictions)
NO other course on the market can equip you with these skills. Level up now and be a part of the modern PHP Developers' club!
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
Build a fully data driven web application
Understand the PHP Application Flow
Create and manage databases with phpMyAdmin and MySQL Workbench
Create PHP/MySQL queries with PDO
Setup User Authentication and Authorization
Use Bootstrap 4 CSS Framework
Use JQuery and JQueryUI
Use Visual Studio Code Efficiently
Deploy using Heroku Hosting
Manage Projects with GitHub
Content and Overview
To feel comfortable in this course, you will need some prior knowledge of HTML and CSS. Beyond that, it is very beginner friendly, as we go through different programming structures using PHP. Even if you have no exposure to any web development, you will be able to follow along from scratch.
This is a huge course. Over 12 hours of premium content, but smartly broken up to highlight a set of related activities based on each feature in the application that is being built. We will also look at troubleshooting and debugging errors as we go along; implementing best practices; writing efficient logic and understanding why developers do things the way they do. Your knowledge will grow, step by step, throughout the course and you will be challenged to be the best you can be.
By the time you have finished the course you will have moved around in Visual Studio Code, XAMPP, GitHub and MySQL, that it will become second nature for you when working on a future PHP project. This will put your new learned skills into practical use and impress your boss and coworkers.
The course is complete with working files hosted on GitHub, with the inclusion of some files to make it easier for you to replicate the code being demonstrated. You will be able to work alongside the author as you work through each lecture and will receive a verifiable certificate of completion upon finishing the course.
Clicking the Take This Course button could be the best step you could take towards quickly increasing your income and marketability! Also, remember that if you don't think the course is worth what you spent, you have a full 30 days to get a no questions asked refund!
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