PHP and MySQL Web Development course - 2nd Edition

The 2nd edition of the course “PHP and MySQL Web Development” was announced by NASD. PHP is the world’s most popular and widely used Web development language that runs nearly one third of the sites in Internet. It runs on a Web server which executes the PHP scripts as input and produces dynamic Web pages as output. PHP in combination with Linux, Apache and MySQL (the LAMP platform) is simple, stable and low cost open-source solution for wide range of Web applications. In this course the students will learn the bases of the PHP language, MySQL and the LAMP platform as well as advanced techniques for developing complex data-driven Web sites. The curriculum covers the fundamentals of Web programming, HTML, CSS, the PHP language basics (variables, strings, arrays, conditional statements, loops, etc.), working with Web forms, using sessions and cookies, working with MySQL database and phpMyAdmin, using the SQL language for querying and modifying databases, working with files, controlling the HTTP headers, object-oriented programming and exceptions handling, using PEAR modules, working with Apache and mod_rewrite, as well as real-world practical examples.
The course finishes with practical project where the students implement simple e-commerce application by applying all skills learned during the course. The course will start in December 2008. The duration of the course is 80 hours. The price for the course is 960 BGN (450 EUR). The lectures will be thought 3 times a week.
See the program of the course here.