WBDV243

Web Authoring II

PHP, WordPress & Content Management

Design, Develop and Implement

PHP - What can I do?

  • process forms
  • upload files
  • generate thumbnails
  • watermark images
  • read/write files
  • communicate with a database

How PHP Works

Web communication
Request/Response

How PHP Works

Web communication
Web Server -> PHP Engine -> Database

An Embedded Language


<body>

  
My first PHP page


  <?php
  echo "Hello World!";
  ?>

</body>

What the text editor sees.

An Embedded Language


<body>

  <h1>My first PHP page</h1>

  Hello World!

</body>

What the browser sees.

What Do You Need?

  • PHP-enabled web server
    • remote server
    • local testing environment - safer/faster
  • script editor

Local Testing

Script Editors