Building a Site with Angular and PHP 7
PHP is the most widely-used web programming language in the world, and Angular is one of best-known JavaScript frameworks today. This course will teach you to create a Single-Page Application (SPA) with Angular and connect it to a PHP backend.
What you'll learn
Angular is probably the most widely used JavaScript framework today, and PHP is the most-used web programming language by a wide margin.
In this course, Building a Site with Angular and PHP, you'll learn to combine the powers of both technologies.
- You start with an introduction to Angular, and then set up a PHP backend with a JSON interface and database storage.
- Next, you'll explore TypeScript, a prerequisite for Angular
- Finally, you'll dive right into the JavaScript framework and its concepts.
Table of contents
- Version Check 0m
- Introduction 1m
- Atwood's Law 2m
- Prerequisites 4m
- System Requirements 3m
- About Angular 4m
- The Angular Timeline 3m
- (Some) Angular Features 3m
- Installing Node.js 3m
- Installing the Angular CLI 4m
- Starting the Application 2m
- About Visual Studio Code 4m
- Configuring Visual Studio Code 5m
- Summary 2m
Course FAQ
A Single-Page Application (SPA) is an alternative to traditional websites that have to load each new page the user navigates to. An SPA dynamically rewrites the one web page with different user interactions.
Angular is one of the most widely-used JavaScript frameworks today.
PHP is the most-used web server programming language by far.
You will learn how to build a Single-Page Application using AngularJS with a PHP backend. We will also use JSON and TypeScript to round out the app.
You should be familiar with PHP and JavaScript but you don't need to know AngularJS or TypeScript - we'll cover that in this course.
You will need a web server, the latest version of PHP, and your preferred IDE.
About the author
Christian Wenz is an architect, consultant and author 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 Developer Technologies since 2004, and the main author of the official Zend PHP certification. His day job includes conducting security audits, migrating old code bases, implementing complex web applications and helping companies choose the right web strategy an... more