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Back-End PHP Track

Updated Sunday, April 18, 2021

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Your Instructors

Your instructors and mentors in this course include:

Name	Slack Username
Veronica Emiola	@Veronica
Njeakor Paul	@rapulu

You are welcome to message them directly, but please post questions that would benefit all of your peers at #track-backend-php.

The following course list covers the specific courses in your track. Please also note the General Courses listed in the top level Program Info Page.

Week 6 Courses (April 18 - 24)

• PHP Week 6
  Access control using MySQL, frameworks, and the Laravel framework.

  • How to Create a Simple User Role Management System in PHP MySQL - 4 minutes
  • Top 10 PHP Frameworks 2017 - 11 minutes
  • Laravel Beginner Tutorial - What is Laravel - 7 minutes
  • Laravel 8 Tutorial - What is Composer - 8 minutes
  • Laravel from Scratch: Part 1 - Installation and Composer
  • Creating our First Laravel 8 Project - 5 minutes

  Assignment: Create an authentication system using OOP and MVC and MySQL with access roles for admin, customer, and staff (this is a continuation of last week’s project). Submit a link to your github repository.

  References

  • Laravel Tutorial for Beginners
  • Laravel Introduction - W3 Schools
  • Laravel Introduction
  • Artisan CLI

• Introduction to Databases
  This course will introduce you to MySQL and Firebase as well as general database concepts. You will install MySQL locally and learn the befits of using cloud-hosted databases.

  • Walk through Introduction to Databases - 21 minutes

  A 10 question test is here.

  Assignment: Using MySQL, create an employee database with the given data and perform the requested quiries. Submit a screen shot.

Week 5 Courses (April 11 - 17)

• HTTP Secure Socket Layer (SSL and CORS)

  • Course Intro Video - 3 minutes
  • A 10 question quiz is here.
  • Content on SSL - followed by a 5 question test.
  • Content on CORS - followed by a 5 question test.

Week 5 Courses (April 11 - April 17)

Note: Last week’s SSL/CORS course will also be due at the end of this week.

• PHP Week 5
  Object Oriented Programming and Model-View-Controller (MVC), use of databases and queries.

  • Intro to Object Oriented Programming - 9 minutes - followed by a 3 question test.
  • Model View Controller (MVC) Explained - 12 minutes - followed by a 3 question test.
  • Database Tutorial for Beginners - 6 minutes - followed by a 2 question test.

  Assignment: Create an authentication system using OOP with MVC and MySQL Database - this week create github repo, database and business logic (full project to be graded next week).

  References:

  OOP

  • PHP Object Oriented Programming Concept Tutorial
  • PHP Classes and Objects Tutorial
  • PHP OOP CRUD Tutorial
  • Object Oriented PHP for Beginners

  MVC

  • Write your own MVC from Scratch in PHP
  • How to start your own PHP MVC framework in 4 steps
  • Create your own MVC framework in PHP

Week 4 Courses (April 4 - 10)

• PHP Week 4
  This week’s lesson covers loops, functions, HTTP sessions, and cookies.

  • PHP Loops Tutorial - 7 minutes - followed by a 5 question test.
  • PHP Functions Tutorial - 16 minutes - followed by a 5 question test.
  • Sessions and Cookies - 7 minutes
  • PHP Sessions Tutorial - 5 minutes
  • PHP Session - 19 minutes - followed by a 5 question test.

  References:

  The last slide in the course contains a list of useful PHP references.

  Assignment:

  Create a authentication page in PHP to register, sign-in, and sign-out the user (credentials stored in a file).

  You will upload your application to a github repository and submit it’s URL as your answer.

  Note: Some additional online research is to be expected to complete this task.

• HTTP Secure Socket Layer (SSL and CORS) - due date April 18th.

  • Course Intro Video - 3 minutes
  • A 10 question quiz is here.
  • Content on SSL - followed by a 5 question test.
  • Content on CORS - followed by a 5 question test.

Week 3 PHP Courses (March 28 - April 3)

• PHP Week 3
  This week’s course introduces arrays and maps (associative arrays), form processing, and file handling.

  • PHP Arrays and Associative Arrays - 22 minutes
  • PHP File Handling - 19 minutes
  • How to create Forms with PHP - 10 minutes

  Assignment: Create a registration form that submits it’s information to a file.

  References

  • PHP Registration Form using GET, POST Methods
  • PHP Files and IO Tutorial

Week 2 PHP Courses (March 21 - 27)

This week participants begin working with the Learning Managment System (LMS).

• Introduction to PHP
  PHP is the classic language for web servers - it’s the original “P” in the LAMP-stack acronym (Linux/Apache Web Server/MySQL/PHP). I believe it is still used by Facebook and many other web applications (though with lots of optimizations thrown in).

  This course gets you setup with VS Code and a complete local web-serving environment, XAMPP, setting you up with web server, database, and application programming language in one configuration.

  • XAMPP Tutoral - this will guide you through configuration and getting a Hello, World working in PHP.

  References:

  • Learn PHP - Interactive PHP Tutorial
  • Learn SQL Online - Interactive SQL Tutorial
  • PHP Week 2 Slides

  Assignments:

  • Upload your hello world PHP file and it’s output.
  • Create a 5-function calculator two inputs - upload code and output in browser.