Advanced PHP Programming | PHP with XML, Ajax, RESTful Services, Web Services, PHP Security Best Practices & More

Extending Your Core PHP Skills with Web Services, Security, Unit Testing, Best Practices & More

Course Code: TT4945

Skill Level: Intermediate and Beyond

Duration: 3 Days

Course Overview

Geared for experienced PHP web developers, Advanced PHP Programming is a hands-on course that provides students with the knowledge necessary to take their core PHP skills to an advanced. Students will learn how to process XML with PHP, work with SOAP and RESTful Web Services, use Ajax with PHP, extend PHP with PEAR, secure PHP applications and more.

Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert practitioner, students will learn to:

Program in Object-Oriented PHP
Process XML with PHP
Create and Consume SOAP and RESTful Web Services
Use Ajax at the Back end of PHP Applications
Extend PHP with PEAR and explore the most useful PEAR modules
Secure PHP Applications | PHP Security
Master PHP Best Practices (Code management, Unit Testing, Documentation and more)

Need different skills or topics? If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate. We offer additional PHP, web development and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs. Our team will collaborate with you to understand your needs and will target the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.

Course Objectives

Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert practitioner, students will learn to:

Program in Object-Oriented PHP
Process XML with PHP
Create and Consume SOAP and RESTful Web Services
Use Ajax at the Back end of PHP Applications
Extend PHP with PEAR and explore the most useful PEAR modules
Secure PHP Applications | PHP Security
Master PHP Best Practices (Code management, Unit Testing, Documentation and more)

Course Prerequisites

This advanced-level course is for experienced PHP developers. Attending students should have prior experience building data driven PHP web applications.

Take Before: Students should have skills equivalent to or should have recently attended the course(s) below as a pre-requisite:

TT4943 Intermediate PHP Programming

Related Courses: PHP Training Series

TT4940: PHP Programming Fundamentals
TT4943: Intermediate PHP Programming
TT4945: Advanced PHP Programming | PHP with XML, Services, Security, Unit Testing & More

Please see the Related Courses tab for Pre-Requisite course specifics and links, links to similar courses you might review as an alternative, as well as suggested Next-Step Follow-On Courses and Learning Path recommendations.

Course Agenda

Object-Oriented PHP

Building a Class
Constructors and Destructors
Working with Properties and Functions
Private, Protected, Public modifiers
Inheritance
Interfaces

PHP XML Support

Simple XML Object
Executing XPath Queries
DOM Interoperability
Using XPath
XSLT and PHP

PHP Web Services

Web Services Technology Stack
Web Services with PHP
Working with PHP and WSDL
PHP and SOAP
Debugging Web Services

RESTful Web Services with PHP

REST vs SOAP
Consuming Services
Creating Services
Debugging RESTful Web Services

Ajax with PHP

Ajax Overview
Ajax on the Server
Ajax on the Client
JSON, Ajax and PHP

Extending PHP with PEAR

Finding packages on PEAR
Installing PEAR packages
Updating PEAR packages
Uninstalling PEAR packages
PECL

PHP and Security

General PHP security
Data Validation
Protecting against SQL Injection
Thwarting Cross-site Scripting
Sensitive Data Management

PHP Best Practices

Code management
Code style
Documentation
Security
Unit testing

Course Materials

Student Materials: Each participant will receive a digital Student Guide and/or Course Notes, code samples, software tutorials, step-by-step written lab instructions (as applicable), diagrams and related reference materials and resource links. Students will also receive the project files (or code, if applicable) and solutions required for the hands-on work.

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