PHP Training UK - Relational Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

PHP Training - Relational Databases (e.g. MySQL)

Duration

One day

Pre-Requisites

Ability to program in PHP (understand arrays and functions)

Description

This day long course introduces you to database design and implementation (using either MySQL or PostgreSQL). It then moves on to show you how you can talk to a database using PHP, covering the various PHP options available (e.g. PDO, PEAR::MDB2, Zend_Db and PHP's native functions) and provides suggestions for which is best for which situation.

The course consists of one main exercise which allows delegates to insert, retrieve and update data within a database using a skeleton of a provided web application.

Course Content

  • Database design and theory - from business rules to database schema
  • MySQL vs PostgreSQL and other options
  • Examples of the various APIs for PHP
  • Doing it yourself...(supervised, guided exercise)
  • Issues regarding security (sql injection) and performance (caching)

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