Web Development with PHP for Beginners: A Beginner’s Guide to Web Development with 4 Real Projects: A Practical Guide to Learning PHP Fundamentals and Step-by-step Introduction to PHP Essentials - Softcover

Publishing, PhiQuill

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798285550273

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

• Understand the fundamentals of web development and what role PHP plays in it. 🕸️
• Set up a local development environment to write and test PHP code on your own computer. 💻
• Master PHP's basic syntax, forming the foundation for writing PHP scripts.
• Learn how to store and manage information using variables.
• Explore different PHP data types such as strings, integers, booleans, and arrays.
• Understand and use various operators to perform actions on data, including arithmetic, assignment, comparison, and logical operations.
• Control the flow of your code by making decisions with conditional statements like if, else, and elseif.
• Learn how to repeat actions efficiently using different types of loops, including for, while, do-while, and the array-specific foreach loop.
• Understand how to skip iterations within loops using continue.
• Gain the ability to create your own reusable blocks of code with user-defined functions.
• Become familiar with and utilize PHP's extensive library of built-in functions for common tasks.
• Discover how to embed PHP code within HTML files to create dynamic web page content. 📄
• Learn to handle user input submitted through HTML forms, a crucial aspect of interactive web applications.
• Understand how to reuse code across multiple web pages using include and require statements, for example, by creating a reusable footer.php.
• Apply your knowledge by building several practical projects:
  • A Dynamic Greeting Card that changes based on conditions. 🎉
  • A Simple Calculator to perform basic arithmetic. 🧮
  • A "Tip Jar" Calculator for calculating tips and totals. 💰
  • A Basic "My Favorite Things" List to demonstrate dynamic content generation.
• Get insights into what to learn next to continue your web development journey. 🚀
• Access a glossary of key web development and PHP terms for quick reference.
• Learn to identify and understand common PHP errors and how to troubleshoot them. 🛠️
• Utilize a PHP syntax quick reference guide.
• Discover useful online resources and tools to support your learning and development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798285550273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279