PHP Basics
The language that runs WordPress, most of Pakistan's business websites and a large share of its web-dev jobs, server-side programming from your first echo to a working form-and-database page.
- 6 lessons
- about 16 minutes (estimate)
- Free
- Free BvLogic Certificate of Completion
- Video in اردو
- Exercises in اردو
- 13 quiz questions
- 6 exercises
- 1 graded lab
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What you'll be able to do
- Understand what runs on the server versus the browser, why PHP dominates that layer locally, and set up PHP on your own machine.
- Transfer your programming skeleton into PHP syntax and meet the differences that matter.
- Generate real HTML pages from data, structure the mix cleanly, and reuse layout with includes.
- Handle GET and POST form submissions, validate server-side, and escape output, the security habits that must be day-one habits.
- Connect to a database with PDO, insert form submissions and list them back, using prepared statements as the only way you ever learned.
- Add login-style state with sessions, organise a small project properly, and see exactly what the paid full-stack course builds from here.
Skills covered
- API Development
- MySQL
- PHP
Course content
- 1 Server-side: the half of the web you have not seen Understand what runs on the server versus the browser, why PHP dominates that layer locally, and set up PHP on your own machine.
- 2 PHP the language: variables, decisions, loops, functions Transfer your programming skeleton into PHP syntax and meet the differences that matter. Sign in to open
- 3 PHP makes pages: mixing code and HTML honestly Generate real HTML pages from data, structure the mix cleanly, and reuse layout with includes. Sign in to open
- 4 Forms: receiving data from the visitor Handle GET and POST form submissions, validate server-side, and escape output, the security habits that must be day-one habits. Sign in to open
- 5 PHP + MySQL: pages that remember Connect to a database with PDO, insert form submissions and list them back, using prepared statements as the only way you ever learned. Sign in to open
- 6 Sessions, structure, and the road to Laravel Add login-style state with sessions, organise a small project properly, and see exactly what the paid full-stack course builds from here. Sign in to open
Course lab
Graded lab · optional practice An enquiry system that survives an attack on itself Open the lab →Full Stack Web Development (PHP)
Full Stack Web Development with PHP & Laravel
This free course is the introduction to the full Full Stack Web Development with PHP & Laravel programme. The programme is taught by a trainer, marked by the academy, and carries the syllabus in full: the part an employer asks about.
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