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PHP 8: Getting Started
This course will teach you how to get started with PHP, the most widely used server language on the web.
What you'll learn
PHP is the most widely used server language on the web. In this course, PHP: Getting Started, you’ll learn to make your first steps with PHP. First, you’ll explore processing form data. Next, you’ll discover storing and retrieving data from a database. Finally, you’ll learn how to create a simple, password-protected database-backed application. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of PHP needed to dive deeper into selected topics.
Table of contents
- Version Check | 15s
- Introduction | 1m 6s
- Installing PHP | 5m 42s
- Configuring PHP | 3m 30s
- A PHP File | 2m 47s
- PHP's Hello World | 2m 16s
- Documentation | 1m 43s
- GET vs. POST | 4m 22s
- HTML Form Elements | 3m 55s
- Processing Form Elements | 1m 41s
- Form Elements: Special Cases | 4m
- Escaping Form Output | 7m 5s
- Summary | 57s
About the author
Christian Wenz is an author, consultant and trainer focusing on web technologies. He wrote or co-wrote over 100 books, is a fixture at international developer conferences since 2001, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP.NET, an ASPInsiders member, and main author of the Zend PHP 5.5 certification.