PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner

About the Project

This project is intended for everyone new to PHP. This is a group of tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, and published on Zend Developer Zone. I took care of grouping all these contents, to make them easier to find.

If you came here to learn about elementary PHP 4 or basic PHP 5, this is for you.
Enjoy!

Index

• PHP 101 (Lesson 1): Down the Rabbit Hole
  An introduction to PHP's variables and operators.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 2): Calling All Operators
  The rest of the PHP operators (there are many), and simple form processing.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 3): Looping The Loop
  Basic control structures explained.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 4): The Food Factor
  Arrays, PHP array functions, and what it all means.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 5): Rank and File
  Everything you're ever likely to need to know about dealing with external files from a PHP script.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 6): Functionally Yours
  All about functions, arguments, passing by reference, globals and scope.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 7, Part 1): The Bear Necessities
  A gentle introduction to object oriented programming in PHP 4 and PHP 5.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 7, Part 2): The Bear Necessities
  A gentle introduction to object oriented programming in PHP 4 and PHP 5.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 8, Part 1): Databases and Other Animals
  All about connecting to a MySQL database from PHP, using the mysql or mysqli extensions.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 8, Part 2): Databases and Other Animals
  All about connecting to a MySQL database from PHP, using the mysql or mysqli extensions.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 9, Part 1): SQLite My Fire!
  Introducing another database: SQLite.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 9, Part 2): SQLite My Fire!
  Introducing another database: SQLite.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 10): A Session In The Cookie Jar
  Sessions and cookies - how to keep track of visitors to your site.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 11): Sinfully Simple
  An introduction to PHP’s easiest method for dealing with XML.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 12, Part 1): Bugging Out
  Basic error handling.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 12, Part 2): Bugging Out
  Basic error handling.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 13, Part 1): The Trashman Cometh
  A primer in basic security.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 13, Part 2): The Trashman Cometh
  A primer in basic security.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 14, Part 1): Going to the Polls
  Putting the pieces together – a first Web application.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 14, Part 2): Going to the Polls
  Putting the pieces together – a first Web application.
• PHP 101 (Lesson 15): No News is Good News
  Creating a simple RSS news aggregator.

About the Author

Vikram Vaswani is the founder of Melonfire, an open source software consultancy firm in Mumbai, India. Melonfire provides specialized product design and development services to help customers efficiently launch and manage new products for the Web.

More information is available on LinkedIn and Google+.

About me

You can reach me at http://alemohamad.com/ if you want to work with me or talk about this subjects.