CST463 · S7 CSE

Module 3 — PHP Basics

Reference material for this module, arranged in teaching order. These are the resources used when this module was taught; the classroom posts for the current cohort go up as we cover it. Every link below is public — follow it directly.

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Reference material for this module

PHP building blocks, variables, data types, operators, control statements, functions, arrays, strings and regular expressions.

Setting up — where your PHP actually runs

Module 3,4,5 — PHP and XAMPP
- 🔗 XAMPP Installers and Downloads for Apache Friends
PHP Script Processing and PHP Interpreter Modes
- 📄 PHP_Processing_Guide.pdf — how PHP scripts are invoked
- 📄 Read on the web — How PHP is processed by a web server
Free PHP/MySQL hosting environment
- 🔗 Free Website Hosting — InfinityFree

The language — building blocks of PHP

Module 3 — PHP Basics
- 🔗 PHP Introduction
PHP — Language Structure
Variables, data types and operators
- 🔗 PHP Variables
- 🔗 PHP Data Types
- 🔗 PHP Operators
Control statements and flow control
- 🔗 PHP if...else...elseif
- 🔗 PHP switch Statement
- 🔗 PHP Loops
- 🔗 prime.php — worked loop example
Working with functions
- 🔗 PHP Functions
- 🔗 PHP Variable Scope
Initialising and manipulating arrays
- 🔗 PHP Arrays
- 🔗 PHP Associative Arrays
- 🔗 PHP Multidimensional Arrays
- 🔗 PHP Sorting Arrays
Strings and regular expressions
- 🔗 PHP Strings
- 🔗 PHP String Functions
- 🔗 PHP Regular Expressions

Practice

Programming questions — JavaScript and PHP
- 🔗 CST-463-Web-Programming/Programming_Questions_Javascript_PHP.md