earthshakira / advanced-php

This repo was initially made while preparing for an interview , hope it helps someone

advanced-php

This repo was initially made while preparing for an interview , hope it helps someone

A todo list of what I'm supposed to do

PHP Review

- [ ] PHP Basics
- [ ] Working with Arrays
    - [ ] Sorting arrays
- [ ] Variable Scope in PHP
- [ ] Arithmetic Operators
- [ ] Comparison Operators
- [ ] The If and While Constructors
- [ ] Functions
    - [ ] Declaring Functions
    - [ ] Passing data by reference
    - [ ] Functions with variable arguments
- [ ] Including code in scripts

Managing Web sessions

- [ ] Using PHP Session handling
- [ ] Managing sessions across multiple servers
- [ ] PHP Cookie Handling

Handling Date & Time in PHP

- [ ] Displaying dates & times
- [ ] Parsing a date or time
- [ ] Generating relative times

Sending email with PHP

- [ ] Using PHP's email functions
- [ ] Sending simple emails
- [ ] Sending HTML emails
- [ ] Working with web forms

PERL Regular Expressions Object Oriented Programming and PHP5

- [ ] PHP 5 Objects
- [ ] Class Inheritance
- [ ] Autoloading Classes
- [ ] Constructors & Destructors
- [ ] Member & Method Visibility
- [ ] The static keyword
- [ ] Abstract Classes
- [ ] Object Interfaces
- [ ] Overloading
- [ ] Class Members

PHP Design Patterns

- [ ] About Design Patterns
- [ ] The Factory Pattern
- [ ] The Singleton Pattern
- [ ] The Observer Pattern
- [ ] The Chain of Command Pattern

Try & Catch Exception handling

- [ ] Handling PHP Exceptions
- [ ] Using Try & Catch blocks
- [ ] The Exception Object
- [ ] Generating Custom Exceptions
- [ ] Multiple Catch Blocks
- [ ] Default Exception Processing

Debugging PHP Code

- [ ] PHP Error Handling
- [ ] PHP Debugging Tools
    - [ ] Creating Conditional Debug Code
- [ ] Creating Custom Error Handlers
- [ ] Suppressing Errors

Leveraging Existing Code using PEAR & PECL

- [ ] Introduction to PEAR

Building Client-Server Applications

- [ ] Client-Server Programming models
- [ ] Understanding XML-RPC
    - [ ] Sample XML-RPC Conversation
- [ ] Creating an XML-RPC Client
    - [ ] Encapsulating Values with XML_RPC_Value Objects
    - [ ] Retrieving data from a XML_RPC_Value() Object
- [ ] Sending the Message & Receiving the Response
    - [ ] A Sample XML-RPC Client
- [ ] Creating an XML-RPC Server
    - [ ] A Sample XML-RPC Server

Sending Multi-Part Email

- [ ] The PEAR::Mail Class
- [ ] Intializing PEAR::Mail
- [ ] Sending a Message
- [ ] Using the PEAR::Mail_Mime Class
- [ ] Creating a new Mail_Mime Object
- [ ] Sending Messages with both HTML and Text
- [ ] Attaching Files to Email Messages
- [ ] Attaching Graphics to Email Messages
- [ ] Generating Message Bodies & Adding Custom Headers

Accessing Databases using PHP

- [ ] Using PDO
- [ ] Reasons to use PDO
- [ ] Transactions & Concurrency
- [ ] Specifying Connection Properties (the DSN)
- [ ] Construction Queries
- [ ] Executing Queries
- [ ] Working with SELECT Results
- [ ] Errors Returned from Queries

Smarty Templates

- [ ] Understanding Smarty Templates
- [ ] How Smarty Works
- [ ] Installing Smarty
- [ ] Setting up Smarty
- [ ] Setting Smarty Directories
- [ ] Creating the Smarty Object
- [ ] Creating TPL Files
- [ ] Setting up Smarty Config Files
- [ ] Smarty Variable Modifiers
- [ ] Escaping Data
- [ ] Combining Modifiers
- [ ] Smarty Conditionals
- [ ] Looping through values
    - [ ] Using {section}
    - [ ] Using {foreach}
- [ ] Other Common Smarty Functions
- [ ] Smarty Class Variables
- [ ] Smarty Methods
- [ ] Configuring Smarty Caching
- [ ] Using Caching
- [ ] Multiple Smarty caches per page
- [ ] Common Caching Methods
    - [ ] Mix & Match Caching
- [ ] Scaling Caching

PHP Best Practices