Title: 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
Publisher: Independently published
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9798285550273
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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.