Developing Applications and Restful Services with PHP

This course is appropriate for anyone who has a reasonable amount of web development experience, including some PHP exposure and is looking to extend their skills into full-stack PHP development and/or PHP as part of a backend service. It may be of particular interest to those looking for a grounding in PHP-MVC before learning a framework like Zend or Laravel.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Create and use PHP Views, Controllers and Models
• Creating and querying an SQL database using PHP
• Create and authenticate sessions in PHP
• Use PHPUnit to perform unit tests and test-driven development
• Use PHP to deliver endpoint data as a RESTful

• Delegates MUST have HTML and CSS skills equivalent to those provided by the Web Development Fundamentals – HTML and CSS course.
• Delegates MUST have PHP skills equivalent to those provided by the Web Development Fundamentals – PHP course.
• Delegates would benefit from having some experience in JavaScript and skills equivalent to those provided by Web Development Fundamentals – JavaScript are recommended

Creating VIEWs using PHP for a web application:

• Using a design principle called Model-View-Controller (MVC)
• Using some of the ideas presented by Agile software development methodology
• Through mixing PHP and HTML code

Creating secure forms for a user to submit:

• Using a HTML elements and HTTPS requests
• Using techniques to validate and sanitise the data

Using PHP and SQL to interact with a database safely:

• Using appropriate Object Oriented PHP
• Using safe querying techniques
• Using security measures to use passwords securely

Routing users to the correct page depending on session data

Managing cookies and sessions to help with the security of PHP applications

Use PHPUnit to test code including:

• Setting up PHPUnit to run unit tests
• Writing some simple tests in PHPUnit
• Testing objects in PHPUnit
• Testing databases in PHPUnit with DBUnit

Understanding what RESTful and Micro services are, including:

• Understanding how other applications consume these services
• Creating a RESTful service using PHP