Foundations of PHP Tutorial
summary
Step-by-step primer that actually builds a working pizza order form (text fields, radio sizes, checkbox toppings) and ends with a printable receipt; code is shown live and posted for download but explicitly marked not secure for production. Covers arrays, loops, sorting, string handling, form validation, and escaping plus session vs cookie storage (including serialize for cookies). Demonstrates database access with mysqli and PDO and shows using prepared statements to avoid injection.
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chapters (33)
- 0:00Start
- 5:29Getting Started
- 6:50Opening PHP tag
- 8:40Quoting Strings
- 13:19Closing PHP tag - Optional
- 14:37Echo'ing and HTML
- 15:57Making Comments
- 17:11Good Coding Practices
- 19:58Starting the Form
- 21:14Radio Buttons
- 21:32Input Field
- 23:28Two Types of Arrays
- 25:05Creating Arrays
- 27:12Quoting Arrays
- 28:42Nested Arrays
- 30:27Displaying Arrays
- 31:30while Loop
- 33:25do Loop
- 37:21Associative foreach Loop
- 38:03Displaying the Pizza Choices
- 38:21Reordering the Toppings
- 39:37Sorting Naturally
- 40:52Sorting with Keys
- 41:33Sorting Keys
- 42:41Comparison Operators Checks if the value of the two is the
- 44:53Logical Operators
- 47:51if-elseif-else
- 49:22Loop Uh-oh
- 49:54Corrected Loop
- 50:25Corrected Decision Code
- 51:08Validation
- 57:22Basic Security
- 58:39Common Attacks
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