Web Development Using PHP – Adv

Program Class: Certificate/ BCA

Year: II

Semester: IV

Subject: BCA

Course Title: Web Development Using PHP

Credits: 4

Core Compulsory

Max. Marks: –25+75

Min. Passing Marks: 33

Unit

Topics

I

Introduction to PHP, History of PHP, Versions of PHP, Features of PHP, Advantages of PHP over Other Scripting Languages, software requirements, Installation and Configuration of PHP, Installing and Configuring Apache to use PHP on Windows, Basic HTML, Embedding PHP in HTML, PHP Basic syntax, data types, comments, variables and constants, scope of variables, PHP arrays: creating array and accessing array elements, PHP String, PHP operators, precedence of operators, expressions, creating a PHP Script, running a PHP script.

II

PHP conditional statements, switch case, PHP looping statements, while, for and do while loop, break, continue, exit, PHP functions: built-in and user defined function, declaration and calling of a function, function argument with call by value, call by reference, string manipulation, mathematical, date and time functions.

III

Introduction to a web form, processing a web form, capturing form data, passing information between pages, PHP $_GET, PHP $_POST, with multi value fields, validating a web form, input validation, exception and error handling, introduction to cookies and session handling.

IV

Working with database: PHP supported databases, using PHP & MySQL: Installation and configuration of MySQL on windows, checking configuration, connecting to database, selecting a database, adding table and altering table in a database, inserting, deleting and modifying data in a table, retrieving data, performing queries, processing result sets.

V

Code re-use, require(), include(), and the include_path, PHP file permissions, working with files: opening, closing, reading, writing a file, file system functions and file input and output, working with directory: creating, deleting, changing a directory, file uploads, introduction to object oriented programming with PHP.