Welcome to PHP

Welcome

To PHP

Hi! Welcome to Introduction to PHP. In this course you will learn the following:

  • the basics of the PHP language.
  • essential Zend PHP concepts – such as Object Oriented Programming
  • creating your very own Drones!

Let’s see how this course will unfold: 

Sparta

In the Andromeda Galaxy

After many years of research and space exploration, humans have finally found sustainable life in the Andromeda Galaxy far from the Milky Way. Space travel has become commonplace and humans are given the opportunity to inhabit a Planet called Sparta in the Andromeda Galaxy. Thousands of Inhabitants from Earth have already started settling on Sparta.

Galaxy X flight goes missing

A flight to Sparta from Earth takes 20 years to get there. The Galaxy X flight with 500 passengers on board, already en route to Sparta, is hit by a meteor in space. Already 19 years into travel,  the flight is thrown off its planned course and gets lost in space. 

The mainframe computer and engine  is damaged. They are experiencing technical difficulty in trying to reach another flight or nearest spaceshipt to ask for help. A flight log records all events happening on the flight. The last entry in the log records the collision event and notifies the control center based on Sparta. 

Agent Gail has to save Galaxy X

Control Tower agent Gail is the first to receive the logged entry of flight Galaxy X and notifies the other agents of the collision. Scrambling to make contact with Galaxy X, the agents on Sparta have to find a way to help the flight crew. The crew on board the Galaxy X are racing against time to save the ship and 500 passengers on board! They are in danger of drifting aimlessly in space and losing oxygen supply fast.

Your task - build a drone

You need to help Agent Gail and the other agents build two drones that would help locate the crew on Galaxy X flight. It would take you and an agent 3 months to build such drones and drones need to be built in such a way that they would take less than 2 months to locate the crew on Galaxy X flight as they are racing against time.

As the software engineer, your main task in building the drones with the other agents is to program the brains of drones or software components of the drone.

Good luck !!!! Remember you don’t have much time and people’s lives are depending on you.

Learning outcomes

In PHP

Let’s see how this course will unfold. Hover on the green glowing icons below to find out what you will cover in each of our PHP lessons. 

Icons

Before we begin. We will be using icons to display various items which you need to look into. Here are some icons to keep an eye out for:

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Optional section

There is no required software for this course. We will be using an online PHP compiler throughout this course. But if you wish to install PHP on your local machine so you can have some fun with PHP code, follow the steps in the videos below.

Optional: install PHP

Let’s learn how to install PHP.

Optional: install text editor

Let’s learn how to install a text editor. Remember – you don’t need to install a local server for this course – as we have our own PHP online editors in the course where you will be coding. But if you’d like to extend your knowledge into programming, it’s a good idea to know about text editors. 

Optional: install local server

Let’s learn how to install a local server. Remember – you don’t need to install a local server for this course – as we have our own PHP online editors in the course where you will be coding. But if you’d like to extend your knowledge into programming, it’s a good idea to know about local servers.

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Intro to PHP

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