Stage 1

Fundamentals of Web Programming. Installing and configuring software (Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Basics of HTML, Forms, HTTP Methods, GET & POST, Uploading Files to the Server Using Forms.

PHP capabilities, what tasks it solves. Areas of use.

Specificity of the PHP programming language: syntax, variables, constants, data types, expressions, operations, priority of operations, increment and decrement operators, regular expressions.

Arrays and loops: working with arrays, data access, sorting, global arrays, for, while, do… while, foreach loops.

Stage 2

Functions. Overview of built-in functions. Custom functions.

Working with the MySql database: purpose, structure, setting up access to the database, SQL – query language, table types, procedures, transactions.

Object-oriented programming: classes and objects, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, data encapsulation, method overloading, magic methods, mixins, anonymous functions.

Errors and exceptions.

MVC paradigm: model, view, controller, MVC frameworks.

An overview of CMS and the basics of working with them (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento).

DOM, JavaScript, jQuery.

Interaction between client and server. AJAX, JSON, XML.

Working on your own PHP projects.