LinuxCBT PHP Edition focuses entirely on PHP Web and Command-line scripting. Serious Linux IT-professionals are expected to have a command of various scripting environments for administrative purposes.
LinuxCBT PHP Edition, is unparalleled in content, depth and expertise. LinuxCBT PHP Edition prepares you or your organization for successfully developing and implementing business-critical GNU/Linux-based scripting solutions.
Recommended Prerequisites:
- LinuxCBT Classic and/or Debian GNU/Linux Editions and/or LinuxCBT BASH/Perl/Python Editions
- Open mind & determination to master Linux Scripting Solutions
- Access to a GNU/Linux-based PC to perform exercises in LinuxCBT PHP Edition
PHP - Hyper Text Pre-Processor - Dynamic Web Applications & CLI
- Installation
- Identify Online PHP resources
- Download PHP
- Identify Apache prerequisite packages and programs - Modular support (mod.so)
- Extract, compile and install PHP with Apache modular support
- Compile and install PHP with Command Line Interface (CLI) support
- Identify key PHP configuration files & directories
- Configure Apache httpd.conf with PHP integration to provide PHP support
- Configure Apache with PHP binary and source support
- Basics
- Explain PHP-supported long/short/ASP parse-tags & identify configuration changes in php.ini
- Hello World script output using echo to the web browser
- Describe the various comments supported by PHP
- Examine the ouput of PHP-maintained variables using phpinfo()
- Explain supported data types via variables (integers, strings, floating points, here documents, arrays, etc.)
- Test instantiation of supported variables with default types
- Explain Quoting rules and variable interpolation
- Demonstrate escaped sequences such as tab, new lines, spaces, etc.
- Exercise the echo command
- Define basic associated arrays (i.e. hashes/dictionaries)
- Define nested associative arrays
- General Information
- Examine key CGI PHP-server variables
- HTTP_USER_AGENT
- PHP_SELF
- REQUEST_METHOD
- DOCUMENT_ROOT
- REMOTE_ADDR
- HTTP_REFERRER
- Explore HTTP GET Request Methods via the URLString and Forms
- Explore HTTP POST Request Methods via the URLString and Forms
- NULL Variables
- Basic Math - PEMDAS
- Integer and String Comparison Operators
- Examine execution operators for executing Linux Shell commands and obtaining the ouput
- Variable assignment via execution operations
- Illustrate the usage of nested arrays
- Control Structures
- IF - comparisons against integers and strings
- Else/Elseif - comparisons against integers and strings
- Test whether variables are of the same type
- Comparison negation
- C-stlye for loops definition and usage
- Generate HTML option boxes using C-style for loops
- foreach list iterator loop definition and usage
- Generate HTML based on the contents of the list iterated by foreach
- While loops definition and usage
- Examine filesystem listings using execution operators and while loops
- do While definition and usage
- Break
- Continue
- Switch - for concise if/elseif conditional examination
- General Information II
- Discuss the applications of Server Side Includes (SSI)
- Server Side Includes using require
- Server Side Includes using include
- Explain and examine the differences between require and include
- Demonstrate distributed include applications by including content using HTTP
- Header, leftnav, body, and footer definition and integration with require/include
- HTML Form defintion using include and control structures
- PHP Functions definition and sample usage
- ISSET & UNSET for examining and controlling variables
- Discuss the way PHP handles uploaded files
- Identify key configuration files which affect uploaded files
- HTTP File I/O - uploads & processing via HTML forms
- Define back-end action pages to handle HTTP file uploads
- Examine available file attributes of HTTP-uploaded files
- PHP SMTP E-mail integration discussion
- Define scripts to process forms and generate SMTP-based e-mail
- Examine PHP Mail function options
- Use mutt on the Linux system to examine PHP-generated SMTP-based e-mail
- PHP - Dynamic Web Programming
- PHP cookie concepts & usage discussion
- Cookie definition and examination on server and client system (Mozilla Firefox)
- Set and unset cookies on client system
- Make decisions based on the existence of cookies on the client system
- Session Variables concepts & usage discussion
- Identify pertinent configuration options for session variables
- Define session variables
- Integrate cookies with session variables
- Download MySQL RDBMS packages for usage with PHP
- Install MySQL RDBMS for usage with PHP
- Download the latest phpMyAdmin for installation
- Install phpMyAdmin with Apache supportfor web-based administration of MySQL RDBMS
- Recompile PHP for MySQL RDBMS support
- Update PHP configuration information to support MySQL
- Define basic database structure for usage
- Structured Query Language (SQL) integration with PHP
- Explain steps for connecting PHP scripts to MySQL
- Define and execute SELECT queries
- Define and execute INSERT queries
- Define and execute UPDATE queries
- Define and execute DELETE queries
- Forms Processing with MySQL integration
- Forms with Cookies
- Forms with Session Variables
- PHP - Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Discuss concepts and applications
- Identify CLI binary
- Discuss the possible ways of executing PHP scripts from the CLI
- Define and execute PHP one-liners
- Execute scripts using PHP binary as a prefix
- Explore executing PHP via the Interpreter mode
- PHP-Linux SHEBANG definition and usage
- Execute basic commands
- CLI - File I/O usage - Stat files
- Examine file attributes
- Determine access and modification times and make decisions using control structures
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