PHP Fundamentals INFO
I am glad to announce about “PHP Fundamentals”, a new course I have developed few months ago and recently completed to refine its slides and assignments. This course is available for free at www.abelski.com.
This new course overviews the basic topics in PHP and reflects a practical approach for learning this language.
If you are already familiar with an object oriented programming language or even with a procedural one you will find PHP very easy to learn. If you are new to software programming I recommend you to start with the following introductory courses (in this order):
Introduction to Procedural Programming
Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
These two courses as well as ’PHP Fundamentals’ are available for free at www.abelski.com.
The ‘PHP Fundamentals’ course covers the following topics:
Introduction to PHP
PHP Basics
Functions
Arrays
Strings
Regular Expressions
Web Forms
HTTP Headers
Sessions Management
Object Oriented Programming
Exceptions Handling
Reflection Capabilities
Databases Connectivity
The Standard PHP Library
Accessing Files
Networking
Each one of these links leads to the relevant slides presentation the ‘PHP Fudamentals’ course includes. In addition to these slides browsing at www.abelski.com you can find this course’s other relevant resources such as forums, chats, assignments and relevant links for other websites on the web.
The following topics were taken out of this course. Separated courses will be developed for each one of them:
PHP & Web Services
PHP Design Patterns
PHP Zend Framework
PHP Security
If you are doing your first steps learning PHP I strongly recommend you the following steps:
Download and install Xampp on your PC
Xampp is an open source one installation that puts on your PC apache server, PHP engine, MySQL database and few more applications (such as PHP My Admin to control MySQL database) that assists developing and running PHP scripts on your PC. You can download Xampp (for free) at www.xampp.org.
PHP Code Editor
Though you can find more than a few open source PHP code editors as well as advanced IDEs that support PHP development (e.g. Netbeans, Eclipse etc…) I recommend you to start with a simple notepad (or a similar more advanced text editor as TextPad).
Introductory Courses
If you are new to programming (as I stated above) I recommend you to start with the following two courses:
Introduction to Procedural Programming
Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
You can both of them available for free at www.abelski.com. Once completing the ‘Introduction to Procedural Programming’ course you can move forward and start the ‘PHP Fundamentals’ course. You can wait with taking the ‘Introduction to Object Oriented Programming’ course till you reach the ‘Object Oriented Programming’ topic in ‘PHP Fundamentals’ course.
Online Detailed Documentation
Before you start going over the material available at ‘PHP Fundamentals’ course I recommend you to start with paying a visit at www.php.net, where you can find detailed documentaion and code samples for most topics.
PHP Fundamentals Step by Step
I recommend you going over the first topics step by step ensuring you acquire ’in depth’ understanding of each one of them. Many of the sub topics presented in these topics become highly relevant for understanding the more advanced topics of this course.
PHP Fundamentals Forums
Please note the forums and the chats available within the PHP Fundamentals course at www.abelski.com. Should you encounter any difficulty please don’t hesitate and place your questions in these forums.
Working on this course I did my best covering the required topics for passing the Zend Certified Engineer certification exam. Doing so I should mention the additional future planned PHP courses which are also relevant for this certification.
Thanks for reading this post. Please don’t hesitate and let me know your thoughs, feedback and any ideas for improving this course.
Sincerely yours,
Haim.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:05 am
[...] אני שמח לבשר שסיימתי לפתח קורס PHP שזמין כעת בחינם באתר http://www.abelski.com. הקורס מקיף ומפורט ומכסה את מרבית הנושאים שנדרשים כדי לעבור את מבחן ההסמכה של Zend לקבלת התואר Zend Certified Engineer. לפרטים נוספים על הקורס שפיתחתי אנא קיראו את הפוסט המלא בגירסה הבינלאומית של הבלוג שלי בכתובת http://www.lifemichael.com/en/?p=281. [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 4:25 am
[...] אם קיימת בך הסקרנות ללמוד את שפת התיכנות PHP… וגם אם אין לך כל רקע בתיכנות… אני ממליץ לקרוא את הפוסט המפורט בנושא שפירסמתי בבלוג שלי (באנגלית) בכתובת http://www.lifemichael.com/en/?p=281. [...]
January 15th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
very nice
January 16th, 2009 at 1:00 am
[...] Michael has put together a “PHP Fundamentals” class that aims to cover all of the information one might need to take the Zend Certified Engineer [...]
January 16th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Thanks for all comments and for the nice words:) I have just fixed the broken links (including the link for the introduction slides). Please note that you can find this course as well as many other ones available for free at http://www.abelski.com, where you will find in addition to the slides many assignments, solutions, forums, additional links for more resources as well as many other courses.
Enjoy & Evolve!
Haim.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:52 am
thank you
January 27th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Wow! Thank you!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Of course, I will add backlink?
Sincerely, Your Reader
January 28th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Hello Timor,
I am glad you find my material useful on your end. Please feel free to extract this post to your site:)
Best,
Haim.
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 am
WOW…
This could be very interesting for me and my employees.
I see that you also offer UML courses ! Are they free also ? (Are they all free)
Thanks !
I’ll do some tests and publish the results here !
Stay tunned !
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Saguenay-IT, (PHP, ASP, Flex, ActionScript, JavaScript, etc.)
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
Feel free to use the training material of this course and others at http://www.abelski.com for personal purposes for free. As long as each employee uses the material on his own (not as part of an inner company training course) this is fine.
Check http://www.abelski.com. You will find many more free courses I offer… Java, C#, SysML, XHTML, CSS and others. Everything is free (for personal and academic purposes only).
I will be very glad to get your feedback.
I can rest assure you that any possitive suggestion to improve my work will be welcomed… and if I agree with the suggestion I will move forward and introduce the improvements on my end.
The training material I offer for free is kind of a beta version for the training material I use when lecturing in the private market (www.xperato.com) and when lecturing academic courses.
Enjoy!
Haim.
December 7th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
אתר מאוד מעניין, והתוכן שבו עזר לי מאוד
bless up.
Tatek.