Enterprise e-Commerce with PHP

Enterprise e-Commerce development with PHP
Course Fee : £690
Course Outline

What is the Internet?

• How did it come about?
• World Wide Web
• Accessing the Web
• The Internet and You
• Installing a Browser
• Internet Providers
• Browsing the Net
• Favourites
• Accessing a We Page Stored in URL
• Printing a Web Page
• Saving a Web Page
• History
• Defining E-commerce
• The Development of E-commerce
• E-commerce Marketing
• E-commerce Security Issues
• E-commerce Security Requirements
• E-commerce Legal Considerations
• International Legal Considerations in E-commerce
• E-commerce Implementation Costs
• Online Auctions Including E-Bay
• Customer Service Expectations of the E-commerce Experience
• Welcome to HTML
• View the Source Code
• To Print the Source Code
• How to make HTML Tags Work
• Organising the Layout of Your Page
• Body Attributes
• More Control
• Adding Images
• Using and Image as a Background
• Hyperlinks
• Adding colors
• Creating Tables
• Creating Frames
• Creating Forms
• Introduction and History of PHP
• Comparison with dynamic content alternatives (Perl, CGI, ASP, JSP, Servlets , CGI, etc)
• Tools and set up (web browser/server, editor, libraries, etc)
• Create a basic PHP Script
• Taking user input (HTML forms)
• Self Referring Forms
• Selecting alternatives
• Use PHP to generate HTTP headers
• Pass variables via the URL
• Debugging
• Where to find PHP documentation
• What can you do with HTML5
• Pros and Cons
• How to develop HTML5 applications
• Which features are supported in which browsers
• Moving from Flash to HTML5
• Mobile HTML5 applications
• Deploying HTML5 applications
• HTML5 development process
• Potential problem areas and pitfalls
• Testing HTML5 applications
• Cross-domain issues
• Creating forms
• Security Protection from Cross Site Scripting
• Using the form GET method
• Using the form POST method
• Obtaining data from forms through variables
• Using hidden fields
• Secure Web Forms (HTTPS and SSL)
• Calling pages from themselves using forms
• Quoting HTML entities in user input
• Identifiers
• Data Types (integers, floats, strings and booleans)
• Type juggling
• Text constants, interpolation (strings, arrays, objects), here documents
• Creating Variables
• Variable assignment
• Variable Scope
• Namespaces
• User-defined Constants
• String constants, variable interpolation into strings
• HTTP environment variables
• Magic Constants
• Variable References
• Arithmetic Operators
• Logical Operators
• Relational (Comparison) Operators
• The Identity Operator
• Bitwise Operators
• Error Suppression Operator
• Execution Operators
• Other Operators
• Assignment Operators
• Operator Precedence and Associativity
• True and False
• If
• Comparing Strings and Numbers
• else and elseif
• The ? : Operator
• Comparing for equality or identity
• The switch / case statement
• Alternative Syntax for Control Structures
• Loops
• while
• do ... while
• for
• break and continue
• goto
• exit
• The php.ini file
• Module Vs CGI Usage
• register_globals
• Control of error logging
• Control of resource limits
• Commonly set configurations
• File system security
• PHP4 compatibility in PHP5
• A glance at upcoming PHP6
• Purpose of functions
• Built-in functions
• Declaring functions
• Functions Arguments
• Default Arguments
• Arguments - Call by Reference
• Return
• Returning References
• Variable Scope (global vs local)
• Static variables
• Recursion
• include and require
• Variable function calls
• What are arrays?
• How and when to use arrays
• Indexing arrays, numeric and hashes
• Initialising arrays
• Using foreach
• Add/remove elements from arrays
• One-dimensional arrays
• Multi-dimensional arrays
• References to array elements
• Database APIs
• Error-handling strategies
• Connection/disconnection, log in/log out
• Escaping strings in SQL statements
• Including common access functions
• Doing simple SQL queries via PHP
• Building HTML tables using SQL Queries
• Avoiding SQL Injection attacks
• Access to: MySql, MySqli, Oracle & MS-SQL
• Using PEAR DB
• Using PHP Data Objects - PDO
• An Insight to Smart Programming
• substring and [] operators
• Case conversion, trimming
• Formatting output data
• Regular expressions
• What is a session?
• Dependencies on the php.ini file
• Understanding PHP session variables
• Create a PHP session variable
• Register and modify PHP session variables
• Putting PHP session IDs in pages
• Good Practise with sessions and PHP
• Cookie properties
• Setting a cookie
• Retrieving PHP cookies
• Expiring/Deleting PHP cookies
• Drawbacks to cookies
• Using cookies well
• Cookie Security Issues
• Opening files, local and remote
• Reading and writing files
• PHP portability on different Operating Systems
• Finding file metadata
• Handling file permissions
• Handling file ownership
• File locking
• Opening and reading directories
• File uploads from the browser/user
• Getting IP addresses from visitors
• Getting referring URLs from visitors
• Environment variables
• Showing different content to different browsers (IE, Netscape, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, etc)
• Handling HTTP and MIME headers
• Object basics
• Classes
• constructors and destructors
• Inheritance
• Accessing instance data and functions
• __sleep and __wakeup
• __autoload
• Class constants
• PHP5 OO Additions
• Objects: Assignments and References
• Try throw catch Exception handling
• PECL quick tour
• APC - Alternative PHP Cache
• Xdebug - debugging and profiling
• PEAR installation and quick tour
• PEAR Config
• PEAR Log
• PEAR Auth
• PEAR HTML_Quickform
• Smarty Templates
• Smarty and HTML_Quickform
• Smarty and Quickform help with security
• Sending email
• Sending multi part email - MIME
• Accessing mail boxes - IMAP & POP
• Graphics basics, referencing a PHP scrip in an IMG tag
• Image MIME type
• Basic examples, line/box drawing
• Creation from an existing image
• Image copying and resizing
• Drawing text on images
• True Type fonts
• Case study