Duration: 2 days • Price: $1440.00 or £720.00 +VAT (with hotel room), or $1200.00 or £600.00 +VAT (without room), • Venue: Melksham, England

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• Thursday 15 May 2008	• Monday 21 July 2008
• Monday 15 September 2008	• Thursday 6 November 2008

An intensive two day workshop style course for programmers with some prior PHP experience who wish to make full use of the facilities of the language to write robust, reliable, secure and maintainable innovative web sites for their companies and clients. You'll arrive the evening before the course at our hotel - settle in, get a good nights sleep, and get on line with your own computer or with one of our loan systems, talking to our PHP web servers, and ready for your course.

After a brief revision of the mechanisms of the PHP language itself, we go on to look at how you should write code to enhance the user experience - to make fields "sticky", to maintain knowledge of each user to your site, to work out where in the world they're visiting from and whether your visitors are regular users, or crawlers indexing your page.

We cover the design of multiform applications, and how that can be done with the flexibility to reuse code across bewteen pages without substnatial recoding, and how to use databases for images, for user preferences, and for regular data.

Flexible use of URLs, handling errors and error pages, and site seraches are all tools whihc PHP can help you with - whether you're looking for a simple logging script, a "did you mean" type facility for sound-alike works, or even a full spell chacker.

With a wide variety of techniques covered through the two days, the final session brings the aspects that are especially relevant to each delegate together in a final practical session that helps you cement what you have learned. Knowledge of PHP to the level taught on our PHP Programming course

Getting the most from your Well House Consultants course [Link] PHP is a programming language that - at its simplest - is embedded in web pages to add server side control to them. But you can do much more that than with PHP - you can write complete web based applications, such as many of those we run on this site.

PHP Revision (module H300) The PHP language. Variables, conditionals and loops. Function, Arrays, methods and objects. File and database handling. Form input elements and superglobals.

Sticky fields and session (module H301) User-proofing your data entry. Data validation with regular expressions. Equallity and not equality. Consistent Error handling.

MVC, 4 layer model and templating (module H302) How to design and structure your application. Model - View - Controller. Top level, business logic, web helpers and template. Objects - how and when to use them. Handling the look and feel with DreamWeaver. A little on database design. Configuration files. Shopping cart applications.

Long and short term cookies and security (module H303) Welcoming your user back. Keeping sessions apart - a multiuser application. Avoiding double ordering - the back button issue. Sign on, single sign on. Legal issues. Credit Card - gathering and processing.

DDA, Style and image handling (module H304) Disability Discrimination . Legal issues from user posted content. Naughty word filters. Captcha.

Tips and Techniques (module H312) Singular v plural. Reporting zero answers and making suggestions. Cardinal values and the child called "Drop database". Upper case and lowe case names - making good addresses. Databases. Sorting. Specifying an API that can be expanded.

Web server configuration (module H305) Rewriting URLS / mod rewrite. Handling multiple pages through the same script. Scripting Style sheets. handling images via a database. Handling error pages - making 404 pages work for you. Tailoring your PHP with php.ini.

Who is your visitor? (module H306) Reconginsing browsers and countries. Is your visitor a crawler? Did your visitor arrive from Google? Is your visitor in the area that you sell to?

Web2 and caching (module H307) Calling in other online resources. Databases and RSS feeds. Making effiecient use of remote feeds. Flash getting information from the server. Ajax and Javascript validation.

Searches, and search engines (module H308) Searching your site. Search Engine Optimisation. Look alike and sound alike words.

Maps, Graphics and Geographics (module H309) Interfacing to Google maps. Ordnance Survey data. Sorting by location. Drawing Graphs and diagrams in PHP. Random Images. Hotlinked images.

Putting it all together (module H310) A practical session in which each delegate. will undertake a different practical to try our. the most revelant techniwues learned so far on. the course. Delegates are encouraged to bring their. own data along, and to go away with useful code.

Graham Ellis - graham@wellho.net [email]  [about Graham] Melksham, Wiltshire , England. A taxi transfer can be arranged if you'll be arriving by air from United States. Private Courses can be arranged on site in your country.
Public courses run at Well House Manor - our own purpose fitted training centre and business hotel / conference centre in Melksham.
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1 student	2 students	3 students	For 4 or more students from the same company, please consider a private course.
With hotel room $1440.00 ($1692.00 inc VAT) or £720.00 (£846.00 inc VAT) Without room $1200.00 ($1410.00 inc VAT) or £600.00 (£705.00 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $2680.00 ($3149.00 inc VAT) or £1340.00 (£1574.50 inc VAT) Without rooms $2200.00 ($2585.00 inc VAT) or £1100.00 (£1292.50 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $3920.00 ($4606.00 inc VAT) or £1960.00 (£2303.00 inc VAT) Without rooms $3200.00 ($3760.00 inc VAT) or £1600.00 (£1880.00 inc VAT)
Notes: • Multiple discount applies to bookings for second and subsequent delegates on the same running of a course, and on same order. • Hotel rooms are available for arrival the night before the course starts, for departure after the end of the course on the last day.

Upon completion of your course, you'll have online access to the source code of all the examples from the course, and you'll have access to the "Opentalk" forum where you can raise questions. We also encourage you to email the tutor, and to visit us again to use our library as appropropriate.

Certification? - [Link] Public (scheduled) courses -- http://www.wellho.net/course/ctc.html
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