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Software Engineering in PHP

PHP is today most popular programming language in developing web applications. This course covers all required topics for passing Zend Certified PHP Developer (PHP 7.1) exam and beyond. It provides its participants with the most up-to-date knowledge and practical experience required for developing today software systems in PHP. It includes 90 academic hours organized in two parts. The training material (slides, video clips, assignments, solutions and code samples) for the entire course is organized in small online courses on the e-learning platform we use during the course. The course is up-to-date with the latest version of PHP covering the new capabilities that were introduced in PHP 5.3, PHP 5.4, PHP 5.5, PHP 5.6 and PHP7. The entire course is captured on video (trainer laptop screen together with his explanations) in order to assist the participants to go over the material in between the meetings. The course is broadcasted online in order to allow remote participation.

Fundamental Topics in Software Development (First Part)
We cover the very basic topics in software development which are necessary in order to learn all other topics the course includes. This part focuses on very basic topics in procedural and object oriented programming. (10 academic hours)

Software Development in PHP (Second Part)

The part covers nearly all topics the PHP Zend Certified Engineer exam covers and beyond. Taking this certification exam is highly important. Learning towards the exam takes the student into the highest possible levels of understanding. Those who pass this exam enjoy a different status in the industry. Their name is shown in the PHP Yellow Pages. (80 academic hours)

Meeting	Topic	Online Course
1	The Internet Procedural Programming HTML	Introduction to The Internet Internet History, The Web, HTTP Protocol, Web Services, Websites Introduction to Procedural Programming Simple Variables, Input & Output, If Statement, While Loop XHTML Fundamentals Introduction, Headings, Images, Links, Tables, Lists
2	Procedural Programming Object Oriented Programming	Introduction to Procedural Programming Arrays, Functions XHTML Fundamentals Forms Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Objects & Classes, Class Members, Inheritance
3	PHP	PHP Fundamentals Introduction to PHP, PHP Basics, Functions
4	PHP	PHP Fundamentals Arrays (Quiz in ‘PHP Basics’) (Quiz in ‘Functions’)
5	PHP	PHP Fundamentals Strings Regular Expressions Web Forms (Quiz in ‘Arrays’)
6	PHP	PHP Open Source Projects Introduction Architecture Installation Administration Introduction to Procedural Programming Recursive Function PHP Fundamentals Functions (Quiz in ‘Strings & Patterns’)
7	PHP	PHP Fundamentals HTTP Headers Sessions Management Object Oriented Programming (Quiz in ‘Object Oriented Programming’ 1st)
8	PHP	PHP Fundamentals Object Oriented Programming (Quiz in ‘Object Oriented Programming’ 2nd) תרגיל מתגלגל
9	PHP	PHP Fundamentals Object Oriented Programming Extensions Configuration (Quiz in ‘Object Oriented Programming’ 3rd)
10	PHP	PHP Fundamentals Object Oriented Programming Performance Closure (Quiz in ‘Object Oriented Programming’ 4th) (Quiz in Extensions) (Quiz in Configuration)
11	PHP	PHP Fundamentals Exceptions Handling Database Connectivity (Quiz in Closure)
12	PHP	PHP Fundamentals Accessing Files Reflection Capabilities
13	PHP	PHP Security Common Practices Website Security Database Security Session Security Filesystem Security Shared Hosting PHP Fundamentals Namesapces Networking Web Forms (uploading file) (Quiz in Performance) (Quiz in ‘Exceptions’) תרגיל מתגלגל
14	PHP	PHP Web Services PHP & XML Simple API for XML (SAX) Document Object Model (DOM) Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX) Representational State Transfer (REST) Java Script Objects Notation (JSON) (Quiz in ‘Stream Network Programming’) (Quiz in ‘Namespaces’) תרגיל מתגלגל
15	PHP	PHP Design Patterns Introduction Structural Patterns Behavioral Patterns Creational Design Patterns (Quiz in ‘Object Oriented Programming’)
16	PHP	MongoDB Introduction Jump Start MongoDB Shell Data Types Crud Operations Querying Indexing Compose.io MongoDB PHP
17	PHP	PHP Fundamentals The Standard PHP Library
18	PHP	PHP Web Services Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) PHP Fundamentals Database Connectivity (Prepared Statements, PDO, Join Statements) (Quiz in ‘PHP Standard Library’)

November 6th, 2013
The Slim Framework topic was extended with 7 new topics: Environment, Request, Response, Logging, Debugging and Configuration.

December 12th, 2013

More topics were added to CodeIgniter meetings. We now cover 30 different topics in CodeIgniter.

September 2th, 2014
The topic ‘MongoDB’ was added. The hours allocation for design patterns was shrinked in order to allow us having 1 full meeting dedicated for learning how to work with the MongoDB no-sql database both from the terminal and from code written in PHP.

October 20th, 2014
The course was updated to cover all new features that were added in PHP 5.6.

April 7th, 2018

The course length was decreased to 90 academic hours (instead of 140).