So many people know the basis of PHP - the language constructs themselves and how they work individually - but could really benefit from learning how to make the best of those elements. And these techniques for putting the elements together are so important that they should not be crammed onto the end of a "PHP Programming" course, but rather should be tackled afresh, with time, after you've had a little practise with the basics.

If you can already code PHP but you're looking to make good use of databases (and get the joins right), to make secure code, to write applications which recognise the country your visitor is from (or whether your page is being visited by a spider), to write code which is easy to modify as your customer's needs change, to handle uploaded images, or which can have a new look-and-feel applied without reprogramming, our PHP Techniques Workshop will be what you're looking for.

Why a Workshop? Because for this type of learning, a small group is ideal. Interaction with other delegates and the tutor, working on projects that are relevant to you so you go away with a practical experience and not just the result of book-learned theory.

We describe this as a two day workshop - but it's a full two days and we encourage you to arrive the evening before at our Melksham, Wiltshire hotel and training centre. On that lead in evening, you'll get a chance to get on line (we provide server and client laptops, but you are welcome to bring your own and connect them in), to meet your fellow delegates, and to be prepared for a fresh start early the following morning.

This year (2008) arrive on Wednesday, 14th May ... on Sunday, 20th July, on Sunday 14th September or on Wednesday, 5th November, for the following two days. The £720.00 + VAT rate includes 2 evening meals, 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, and two nights accommodation, high quality rooms. Let us know if you'll be arriving in Melksham by train and we'll meet you at the station too. And, yes, we have plenty of free parking.

The Arrival Evening
up to 21:00	Arrive (any time from mid-afternoon), settle in, get on line
20:00	Buffet available
First Full Day
07:00	Breakfast
07:30 - 09:00	PHP Revision - the basics [details]
09:15 - 12:30	Sticky Fields and Sessions [details] MVC, 4 Layer Model and templating [details]
12:45	light lunch
13:30 - 17:15	Long and short term cookies and security [details] DDA, Style, image handling (inc capture) [details]
Evening	Tips and Techniques Clinic [details]
20:00	evening meal
Second Full Day
07:00	Breakfast
07:30 - 09:00	mod rewrite techniques, Recognising browsers, countries and referers [details]
09:15 - 12:30	Web2 and caching, [details] Searches, 404s and Search Engines, [details] Maps, Graphics and Geographics [details]
12:45	light lunch
13:30 - 17:15	Putting it Together [details]

We'll offer you a lift back to the station at the end of the second day, or if you prefer to stay a further evening you're welcome to book your room for just £60.00 + VAT and check out the next morning.
(written 2008-04-26 21:10:33)

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  [2558] Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010 - (2010-01-01)
  [2505] I almost put the bins out this morning - (2009-11-16)
  [2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP? - (2009-09-08)
  [2354] Training, Open Source computer languages - (2009-08-13)
  [2350] Ten years in Melksham - looking forward to ten more. - (2009-08-11)
  [2341] Koulutus, Open Source tietokone kielillä - (2009-08-09)
  [2340] ldning, Open Source dator språk - (2009-08-09)
  [2339] Opplæring, Open Source datamaskinen språk - (2009-08-09)
  [2338] Uddannelse, Open Source computer sprog - (2009-08-09)
  [2337] Opleiding, Open Source computertalen - (2009-08-09)
  [2336] Formação, Open Source computador línguas - (2009-08-09)
  [2335] Ausbildung, die Open-Source-Sprachen - (2009-08-09)
  [2334] Formazione, Open Source computer lingue - (2009-08-09)
  [2333] Formación, de los lenguajes de código abierto - (2009-08-09)
  [2332] Formation, des langages Open Source - (2009-08-09)
  [2326] Learn a new programming language this summer. - (2009-08-06)
  [2278] First courses for 2010 - (2009-07-10)
  [2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses - (2009-06-11)
  [2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK - (2009-06-07)
  [2118] Spring Sprung - (2009-04-05)
  [2041] httpd, Tomcat and PHP course enhancements - (2009-02-14)
  [1629] A short introduction to our courses - (2008-05-03)
  [1577] Spring and early summer training courses - (2008-03-15)
  [1565] Languages compared - based on developer community size - (2008-03-05)
  [1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news - (2008-01-01)
  [1453] What makes our courses special? - (2007-12-02)
  [1384] An email update for past guests and delegates - (2007-10-08)
  [1317] 2008 course schedule - Perl, Python, PHP, Linux, Java Deployment, Ruby and more - (2007-08-23)
  [1102] A Reference - (2007-03-08)
  [1087] Telling a story in different ways - (2007-02-20)
  [1018] Open Source Courses and Business Hotel - products and prices for 2007 - (2007-01-01)
  [564] Open Source training from Well House Consultants - (2006-01-14)
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [549] 2005 - Come as a student, leave as a friend - (2005-12-31)
  [504] We are about Open Source programming courses in the UK - (2005-11-24)
  [419] Most popular courses - (2005-08-19)
  [277] Fire drill - (2005-04-12)
  [234] How to get the best from your supplier - (2005-03-03)
  [181] Maximum number of trainees on a course - (2005-01-18)
  [13] Mobile Office revamp - (2004-08-13)

H115 - Designing PHP-Based Solutions: Best Practice
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  [1794] Refactoring - a PHP demo becomes a production page - (2008-09-12)
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  [1533] Short and sweet and sticky - PHP form input - (2008-02-06)
  [1490] Software to record day to day events and keep an action list - (2007-12-31)
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  [1482] A story about benchmarking PHP - (2007-12-23)
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  [1390] Converting from postal address to latitude / longitude - (2007-10-13)
  [1389] Controlling and labelling Google maps via PHP - (2007-10-13)
  [1381] Using a MySQL database to control mod_rewrite via PHP - (2007-10-06)
  [1323] Easy handling of errors in PHP - (2007-08-27)
  [1321] Resetting session based tests in PHP - (2007-08-26)
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  [1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables - (2007-05-09)
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H116 - Shopping Cart Application in PHP
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H999 - Additional PHP Material
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  [2073] Extra PHP Examples - (2009-03-09)
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  [1505] Script to present commonly used images - PHP - (2008-01-13)
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  [1104] Drawing dynamic graphs in PHP - (2007-03-09)
  [1053] Sorting people by name in PHP - (2007-01-26)
  [1020] Parallel processing in PHP - (2007-01-03)
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  [665] PHP Image viewing application - (2006-04-01)
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  [468] Stand alone PHP programs - (2005-10-18)
  [372] Time calculation in PHP - (2005-07-08)
  [337] the array returned by preg_match_all - (2005-06-06)
  [322] More maps - (2005-05-23)
  [320] Ordnance Survey - using a 'Get a map' - (2005-05-22)
  [239] What and why for the epoch - (2005-03-08)
  [54] PHP and natural sorting - (2004-09-19)

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