By: karwanpro / Date: 2013-07-17
PHP, also referred as Personal Home Page is one of the easily handling server side scripting language that commonly uses html functions for designing and MySQL as backend database. Hypertext Preprocessor is another expansion of PHP if we talk about it technically. Would you like to learn PHP programming? Of course it is an easily understandable programming language. Learning all about PHP in a week is impossible for an average person but a scheduled time table can help you to study on core areas enough to become a website developer.



Day 1: The initial step towards PHP programming is to learn about HTML. Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML is the base of web designing. HTML tags are used to create the web pages or web content that need to be displayed in the Web browser. Let the first day be for learning about HTML5, the latest tool for web development.



Day 2: Once you got an idea about using HTML, it's time to start with the first program in PHP. Whether in online tutorials or text books, the first program will be to display "Hello World" in a web page. Along with baby steps to PHP, here you study on how to use HTML tags to execute pages in a browser.



Day 3: Start with the lessons on how to represent the inputs and outputs in a computer programming. Variables and Arrays are the representations using which manipulations are done. The creation and usage of variables to represent single inputs and arrays for multiple inputs enables you to customize process according to logic and execute the output.



Day 4: Usage of Conditional and Unconditional statements plays a vital role in PHP programming. This is used to code decisions and route outputs depending on logics and conditions. On the fourth day you study about single statement execution and multiple statement compilation. For example, loop statement is used to execute same set of program many times without increasing the lines of code.



Day 5 & 6: The chapter on functions is comparatively broad and this requires a minimum of two days. The real time aspects like date, time, file creation etc are defined as functions and used within the programming language to execute them on the website. There are built-in functions and user-defined functions. Learning each category a day will cover up the basic knowledge on how to use functions in PHP programming.



Day 7: There are a few concepts like commenting code which are of least important but inevitable. On the last day of week, you can go through those.

Completion of this timetable will equip you with the basics of PHP; expanding the knowledge over this foundation can definitely make you a good PHP Programmer.

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