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Learn Database and Security Techniques with PHP

Learn Database and Security Techniques with PHP

Learning more about PHP, one video at a time


Course details

3.6∙16 Ratings8 reviews

Published
May 2017
Videos
11
Duration
1h 30m
Happy students
1557

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About the course

We've compiled some of our favourite PHP lessons into this neat mini course. Get ready to jump between useful PHP tactics, explore PHP packages, you'll event learn how to secure your PHP pages. With the lessons in this mini course, you can drastically reduce the amount of code you write for various common tasks and some not so common tasks, such as prepopulating databases and creating spreadsheets. We hope you enjoy your taster but if you'd like to get in-depth with PHP, check out our Laravel course.

Course Instructors

Lami Ada

Lami Ada

Lami is an IT consultant with a focus on web, database, and mobile technologies. He is very versed in technologies that run on both Microsoft and Linux platforms.
Ashraff Hathibelagal

Ashraff Hathibelagal

Ashraff is a blogger and freelance programmer, who loves tinkering with new frameworks, SDKs and devices. He has been building enterprise applications for various multinational organizations using HTML, PHP and Java for over a decade now, something he still enjoys. Lately, Ashraff has become obsessed with newer languages such as Ruby and Kotlin, never missing a chance to use them in his projects.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Exploring PHP
  • Free
    Database Access with PHP
    10:13
  • Locked
    Useful Arrays and Array Functions in PHP
    11:16
  • Locked
    Prevent Brute Force Attacks on a Login Page
    9:33
  • Locked
    Prevent XSS Attacks in PHP
    4:55
  • Locked
    Fetch Remote Data Using Guzzle
    7:52
  • Locked
    Faker! Dummy Data for Your Empty Databases
    9:00
  • Locked
    Sharing Data with PHPExcel
    9:09
  • Locked
    Handling PHP Logging with Monolog
    7:55
  • Locked
    PHP Dependencies Made Easy with Composer
    9:46
  • Locked
    Avoid CSRF Exploits in Your PHP Apps Today
    6:52
  • Locked
    Using Shorthand if-else Conditionals in PHP to Make Code More Succinct
    4:07

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Course details

3.6∙16 Ratings8 reviews

Published
May 2017
Videos
11
Duration
1h 30m
Happy students
1557

Take this course
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