PHP Foundations

Your first steps in programming: variables, decisions, loops, functions and web forms, in plain PHP.

📚 4 modules 🎬 12 lessons ⏱ about 8 h 🎓 Certificate

What you will learn

✓Write and run PHP on your own computer
✓Use variables, arrays, decisions and loops with confidence
✓Build web forms that check what people type
✓A working price and change calculator

Course content

4 modules · 12 lessons

Module 1 Getting started 3 lessons

📄What PHP is and how a web page is built
📄Installing PHP and VS Code
📄Your first PHP page

Module 2 The building blocks 4 lessons

📄Variables, strings and numbers
📄Arrays and associative arrays
📄Decisions with if, else and match
📄Loops: for, foreach and while

Module 3 Functions and forms 4 lessons

📄Writing your own functions
📄HTML forms with GET and POST
📄Checking what a user types
📄Sessions and cookies

Module 4 Project 1 lesson

📄Build a price and change calculator for a shop

About this course

Your first steps in programming: variables, decisions, loops, functions and web forms, in plain PHP. Part of the PHP & Laravel Masterclass from Kaydro Code Academy. Every lesson has a short video, the code and an exercise; the course ends with a project you keep for your portfolio, and a certificate.