Introduction to Web Application Programming

• Static v/s Dynamic applications
• Client/server computing
• TCP/IP protocol
• Application layer protocol – HTTP
• HTTP Request and Response
• Asynchronous requests with XMLHttp
• 3 tier architectures
• Client side applications and frameworks – HTML/JS/CSS
• Server side languages and frameworks
• Overview of Model/View/Controller (MVC )
• Tooling
  • Using tooling to inspect page content (HTML/JS/CSS)
  • Using tooling to inspect request and response headers
  • Using tooling to inspect traffic flow
• Analysis of a few popular client/server applications
• Examples of MVC frameworks

PHP – Getting Started

• Installing PHP
• Configuring Apache2 for PHP
• A simple Hello World page

PHP – Language Basics

• Basic syntax
• PHP Tags
• Interspersing PHP with HTML
• Comments

PHP – Types

• Booleans, Integers, Floating point numbers, Strings
• Arrays
• Resources
• NULL
• Type conversion/juggling

PHP – Variables

• Naming rules and conventions
• Predefined variables
• Variable scopes
• Variable variables
• Constants
• Predefined constants

PHP – More Language Features

• Expressions
• Operators
  • Operator precedence
  • Arithmetic, Assignment, Bitwise, Comparison, Error Control, Execution, Increment/Decrement, Logical, String, Array and Type Operators
• Control Structures
  • if, else, elseif
  • while, do-while
  • for, foreach
  • break, continue
  • switch, declare, return
  • require, include, require_once, include_once
  • goto

PHP – Functions

• User defined functions
• Function arguments
  • Pass by value/pass by reference
  • Variable length argument lists
• Returning values
  • Returning an array of values
  • Returning a reference
• Variable functions
• Callbacks
• Anonymous functions
• Built-in functions
• Full function reference

PHP – Classes and Objects

• Creating a class and an object
• Class constants
• Constructors and Destructors
• Visibility
  • public, private and protected
  • Method and Property Visibility
  • Visibility from other objects
• Inheritance
• Scope resolution operator
• Static properties and methods
• Abstract classes
• Interfaces and Interface Inheritance
• Traits
• Overloading

PHP – More Objects

• Object Iteration
• Magic Methods
• Final Keyword
• Object Cloning
• Comparing Objects
• Type Hinting
• Late Static Bindings
• Objects and references
• Object Serialization
• Converting a scalar to object

PHP – Exception Handling

• Catching and Throwing Exceptions
• try/catch/finally
• Creating your own Exceptions

PHP – Namespaces

• Overview of namespaces
• Defining namespaces
• Defining multiple namespaces
• Using namespaces
• Name resolution rules

PHP - Misc

• Predefined Variables
• Generators
• References
• Handling Security Issues

MVC and MVC Frameworks

• Introduction to Model View Controller (MVC)
• Separating the MVC concerns in plain vanilla PHP
• Introduction to MVC frameworks
• What to expect from a MVC framework
• How to choose a good MVC framework

PHP – MVC Frameworks

• Comparison of PHP MVC Frameworks
• Case studies
  • Drupal
  • Joomla/Wordpress
  • CodeIgniter