Installing XAMPP

In this video, you'll learn how to install Eclipse PDT and create a Hello World PHP program.

Here's how to use the most important features of Eclipse for PHP programming, e.g. code assist.

This is the second video on how to use the most important features of Eclipse for PHP programming, e.g. templates.

This lesson teaches the basics of how to assign and display the various types of variables in PHP, including string, integer, boolean, etc.

This session is about operators, such as ==, !=, ===, !==, <, >, <=, >=, $score++, || (or), && (and).

This video explains conditionals indicated by if, ifelse, switch and the ternary operator as an abbreviated if statement.

This lesson explains how to use the foreach, for, and while loops.

This lesson explains how to use functions, parameters, and what global and local scope is.

Learn how to create indexed and associative arrays, count(), and to avoid an important trap along the way.

This video shows explode(), implode(), multidimensional arrays representing tables in a database, and how to sort arrays.

In this session, you'll learn how to run through the characters of a string as if the string is an array and how to use strtolower(), strtoupper(), time() and substr().

This lesson shows how to display the current date and time in U.S. and German formats, day of week, week number, RFC 282 formatted dates, etc. And there's even more: You'll also learn how to get this information for relative dates (e.g. tomorrow) or specific dates and times.

Lots of math in this section: Watch how to get the minimum, maximum and average from a list of numbers. Also see how to get the remainder of a division, how to round up and down, how to get the absolute value, and how to generate random numbers.

This video shows you how to build an easy-to-use library of functions by using require_once and include_once to include functions and classes that you need in every file. It also shows how Eclipse is able to show pop-up information on all methods and classes no matter where they are located.

In this video, you'll create a class called SmartUrl that has a constructor. This constructor accepts a value that is saved as an internal variable. Then a public method is called to output the internal variable.

This follow-up video continues to build the SmartUrl class by enabling the adding of parameters to the URL.

In this part of the SmartUrl series, you'll add two properties called "File" and "Text" and a public method called "renderLink()".

In the final part of the SmartUrl series, you'll add a static method, which allows you to create a hyperlink with parameters and variable text all in one line.

This lesson shows an example of using inheritance, private/protected variables, method overriding, and calling parent methods.

This lesson shows an example of creating an interface iFlashcard to allow the classes FAQs and Books to be treated as flashcards.

This video walks you through building up a regular expression that validates German and Austrian zip codes.

This video shows how to use preg_match_all to find all occurrences of a string inside another string.

This lesson shows how to use preg_split to get all the words out of a sentence into an array.

In this session, you'll learn how to use preg_replace to make edits, e.g. "Jim Smith" to "Smith, Jim", and how to reformat telephone numbers.

Learn how to build a cross-browser, engaging form with HTML, CSS and PHP.

This lesson tells you how to make a page that processes the data on the form and sends the user back to the form where a message is displayed thanking him for entering information.

This video shows you how to validate all of the form elements on the form, e.g. displaying a message under required fields that the user did not fill in.

Here's how to add radio buttons, a multiple dropdown, a classic dropdown, a checkbox and a hidden variable to the form.

Watch how to validate the checkbox and maintain state for radio buttons, multiple dropdown, classic dropdown, and checkbox.

Learn how to keep track of how many visits a user has made to a website. Then see the control the user has over cookies using Firefox. They can look at them, deny them, or turn them off completely.

This session shows that it takes just a few lines of code to determine whether or not a client accepts cookies. If so, you can offer them a rich experience. If not, you can still offer them a site that works and looks nice.

This video shows how to set and read sessions with a shopping cart example. When cookies are turned off, you'll see that sessions do not work. Then you see how you can edit the php.ini to enable sessions to work without cookies.

This video shows how to create a database table in phpMyAdmin and how to use PHP to display records from that database table on a web page.

What do you need to know about inserting information into a MySQL database? This video has the answer.

Watch how to install the Firefox SQLite Manager add-on, create an SQLite database and database table, then use PHP to display the data from that SQLite database on a web page.

Learn how to use PHP to write to an SQLite database. Also, you'll see that SQLite takes over 60 seconds to add 20000 records while MySQL takes only 4 seconds to add 20000 records. The pros and cons of using SQLite are also covered here.

This video shows and discusses three increasingly secure ways to protect your online SQLite databases.

Watch how to create an XML file in Eclipse and how to get the information out of the XML file in just a few lines with SimpleXML, reading both element contents and attribute contents.

This lesson tells you how to use XMLReader to run through the XML file node by node, building an array of information from your XML file and displaying this array at the end.

This session shows how to run through an XML file using SAX and get information out of the XML file, saving it in an array.

This video shows how to read information out of an XML file using DOM and identifies a number of issues that may arise and provides solutions.

Here's how to use XMLWriter to create an XML file from scratch.

Learn how to append an element to an existing XML file using DOM.

Watch how to use the Yahoo Search Service to build a custom "topic search engine", e.g. a "Colorado Search Engine", which allows users to type in keywords such as "car" and receive results on "colorado cars".

See how to download NuSOAP and use it to build and consume a web service.

Many websites feature a security hole in that directories can be browsed and files such as .pdf or .xml or .sqlite can be downloaded by anybody. This video shows how you can protect yourself against this by using .htaccess files to prevent directory browsing and determine which files are downloadable and which are not.

This lesson includes an example of how a hacker can use an unprotected form to execute script on your web server and presents ways to protect your forms against this kind of attack.

In this session, you'll see how a hacker can type in a series of characters to log into your application without knowing a correct password of any user. Then you'll see how to prevent this.

Let this video show you how to use file_put_contents to write to a file, pointing out a number of common errors that will come up and solutions to them. Also learn the old way of writing to a file with fwrite.

This lesson shows how to use the file_get_contents command to output the contents of a file to the browser. It also shows the older way of doing this with fopen and a while loop plus how to use file_get_contents to get text from an external website.

The first video of this section shows you the basics of using the new filter_input function in PHP 5.2 by building a form and then validating an entry on the form as an integer between 3 and 10.

Watch how to use the new PHP 5.2 input filters to easily validate an e-mail and a URL, and how to validate a zip code by using a custom regular expression.

This video tells you about using the new PHP 5.2 input filters to remove and encode special characters from strings entered on a form, about calling a custom function to validate text, and about how to not only validate POST variables but also GET variables.

This session shows how you can encode and decode between arrays and the JSON format with the new PHP 5.2 functions json_encode and json_decode.

Learn how to use the new ZipArchive class to build two custom functions called createZipFile and unpackZipFile, which allow you to zip or unzip files in one line.

This video explains which problem the PHP 5.3 namespace feature solves and how to implement it.

This lesson shows the basics of using lambdas and closures with array_filter.

This lesson shows the problem that late static binding solves and how to use it in PHP 5.3.

Watch how to use array_replace to overwrite an array with groups of changes.

Use parse_ini_file to get settings information from a file. And you can now use parse_ini_string to get settings information from fields in a database. Here's how!

This video tells you how to use the new date_add function.

This lesson shows how to use the new PHP 5.3 functions lcfirst, gethostname and get_called_class.