PHP Training: Advanced PHP Training

Course Number: PHP-110
GSA/Previous Course Number: 605
Duration: 3 days
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Advanced PHP Training Overview

Accelebrate's Advanced PHP training teaches experienced PHP developers the object-oriented, XML, PHP, web services, Ajax, and Smarty skills they need to build complex, data-driven, scalable applications.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/xml_html_js.htm.

Advanced PHP Training Prerequisites

All attendees must be familiar with the fundamentals of building data-driven PHP web applications, either from their own experience or from Accelebrate's Introduction to PHP and MySQL training.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This PHP training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 10 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Advanced PHP Training Materials

All attendees receive comprehensive courseware and a copy of O'Reilly's PHP Cookbook.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

The following should be installed on each student PC:

Linux, Windows, MacOS X, or Solaris operating system
Web server (either Apache httpd or Microsoft IIS)
PHP 5.2 or later with the PEAR extensions enabled
MySQL™ 4.1 or later (5 or later recommended), Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Access 2000 or later, or Oracle 8i or later
Internet Explorer 6 or later or Firefox 2 or later

Advanced PHP Training Objectives

Learn how to program in Object-Oriented PHP
Learn to process XML with PHP
Learn to work with the PEAR HTTP_REQUEST Module
Learn to work with XML RPC and PHP
Learn to create PHP Web Services
Learn to work with Smarty Templates to speed up PHP development

Advanced PHP Training Outline

Object-Oriented PHP

Building a Class
Working with Properties and Functions
Private, Protected, Public modifiers
Inheritance
Interfaces
Building a Web Page Object
PHP Objects in N-Tier Web Architecture
Importance of PHP Business Objects

PHP XML Support

Simple XML Object
Executing XPath Queries
DOM Interoperability
Using XPath
Installing and Configuring LIBXSL
Applying Server side XSL Transformations
Using XML in N-Tier Architecture
Mixing PHP Objects and XML

PEAR: HTTP_REQUEST MODULE

Installing PEAR::HTTP_REQUEST with Dependencies
HTTP_REQUEST Capability
HTTP GET Request
HTTP POST Request
Programmatically Posting to a HTML Form
Parsing the Response
Building a Basic Authentication PHP Client

XML RPC

XML-RPC Implementations
Installing and Configuring PHPXMLRPC
XML RPC Data-Types
XML RPC Server
XML RPC Client
XML RPC Request and Response
Exploring the XML RPC API

PHP Web Services

Web Service Technology Stack
SOAP Soup
Web Services with PHP
Installing NuSOAP
Building a SOAP SERVER
Consuming a Web Service
Generating WSDL Dynamically
Understanding Generated WSDL
WSDL and SOAP Proxies

Complex PHP Web Services

Building Interoperable Web Services
Generating and Handling SOAP Faults
RPC Vs. Document Message Encoding
Serializing the SOAP Envelope
Web Service Best Practices

Ajax with PHP

Ajax Overview
Ajax Technology Stack
Ajax Implementations
Installing and configuring HTML_Ajax Pear Module
Ajax Server
Ajax Client

Smarty Templates

Smarty Overview
Installing and configuring Smarty Pear Module
Setting up a Template
Passing Data to the Template
Smarty for Template Designers
Smarty for Programmers
Smarty in N-Tier Architecture

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