sleduc on February 24th, 2010

Resources

List of Text Editors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_editors

Basic Tutorials

Very good basic tutorial to get started with some nice scripts to run

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/php/
http://inpics.net/phpbasics.html

Basic overview with extended reference to the php language options

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/

Script Samples

Huge list of pre-built php scripts

http://www.hotscripts.com/category/php/

Questions From Class

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sleduc on January 1st, 2010

Chapter 1: Adding Life to Web Pages with PHP

Goals

Learn the basic syntax and commands of PHP

Terms

HTML
PHP
Web Form
Browser
<?php ?>
Variable
Quotes
Echo
$_POST
Web Server
Array
Superglobal
Mail()

Concepts

HTML on Client side
PHP on Server side
PHP Syntax and command structure

Resources

Graphical Secure File Transfer Applications

Fugu (Mac)
WinSCP (Windows)

SSH (Secure Shell) Client

Terminal (Mac) - is already on all Macs
PuTTY (Windows and Unix)

HTML Editor

Kompozer

phpMyAdmin

Hulk Server Access

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