• Gain a foundational understanding of server-side scripting and its relevance to web development.
• Learn about the significance of PHP programming language in building dynamic web applications.
• Develop the ability to set up a PHP development environment.
• Familiarize with the basic syntax of PHP, including statements, variables, and comments.
• Understand the functionality and usage of operators for performing different operations in PHP.

Unit 1: Introduction

1. Understanding server-side scripting and PHP Programming
2. Installing and setting up PHP development environment (XAMPP, WAMP, or alternatives)
3. Basic syntax and data types
4. Variables and Constants
5. Operators
   1. Arithmetic Operators
   2. Assignment Operators
   3. Logical Operators

• Understand the concept of conditional statements and their role in controlling the flow of program execution.
• Explore different conditional logic statements.
• Learn about the ternary operator as a concise alternative for simple conditional expressions.
• Develop the ability to use loops for repetitive tasks.
• Control the loop execution flow with continue and break statements.

Unit 2: Control Structures and Loop

1. Conditional Statements
   1. If, Else, Elseif
   2. Ternary Operator
   3. Switch Statement
2. Using Loop for Repetitive Tasks
   1. While, Do...While, For
   2. Continue and Break

• Understand the concept of arrays and their significance in storing and organizing data.
• Learn how to iterate through arrays using various iteration techniques.
• Understand the concept of functions and their role in promoting code reusability by encapsulating reusable logic.
• Dealing with strings, numbers, date & time, and arrays with built in function.
• Learn about passing arguments to functions and returning values from functions.
• Understand variable scoping and how they affect the visibility and accessibility of variables within functions.

Unit 3: Array and Function

1. Working with Array
   1. Indexed Array
   2. Associative Array
   3. Array Iteration
   4. Multi-dimensional Array
2. PHP’s Built in Function
   1. String Function
   2. Math Function
   3. Date and Time Function
   4. Array Function
3. User Defined Function
   1. Passing arguments and Return
   2. Variable Scoping

• Gain proficiency in processing HTML forms to collect user input from web pages.
• Understand the HTTP request methods and their usage in form submissions.
• Validating and sanitizing user input to prevent security vulnerabilities and ensure data integrity.
• Validating file types, sizes, and other attributes to ensure the integrity of uploaded files and prevent potential security risks.
• Understand the process of sending emails programmatically.

Unit 4: Form Handling and Data Validation

1. Processing HTML forms with PHP
2. Working with HTTP Request ( GET, POST, SERVER )
3. Preserving User Input
4. Validating and Sanitizing User’s Input
5. Dealing with checkbox, radio button and list.
6. File Upload
7. Send Email

• Learn about the importance of file handling in web development, including reading file content and storing user-generated content, logging application data etc.
• Understand the various file reading and writing modes and their respective use cases.
• Know the differences between file inclusion methods (include and require) and their respective use cases.
• Gain practical knowledge in managing sessions and cookies for maintaining user state and tracking user interactions.
• Acquire skills in implementing session-based authentication and authorization mechanisms to control access to web applications and resources.
• Learn to efficiently manage and gracefully handle unexpected errors or exceptional conditions in the application

Unit 5: File Handling, Sessions, and Error Handling

1. Reading from and writing to files
2. Understanding file permissions and security considerations
3. File Inclusion (Include and Require)
4. Managing sessions and cookies
5. Implementing session-based authentication and authorization
6. Error handling in PHP: try-catch blocks, exception handling

• Understand the importance of using databases in PHP applications for efficient data storage, retrieval, and management.
• Connecting PHP applications to a MySQL database using MySQLi extensions.
• Acquire skills in executing SQL queries dynamically in PHP to interact with MySQL databases.
• Explore transaction management concepts to ensure data consistency and integrity in multi-step database operations.

Unit 6: Working with Database

1. Introduction to MySQL database management system
2. Connecting PHP with MySQL database
3. Performing CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
4. Executing SQL queries using PHP
5. User Registration and Login
6. Error handling and transaction management

• Understand the importance and benefits of using object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP.
• Creating and using classes and objects to organize and encapsulate code.
• Understand the purpose and usage of static properties and methods, including declaring and accessing static members without the need for class instantiation.
• Learn about properties and methods in PHP classes and how they contribute to code organization and reusability.
• Explore advanced concepts such as inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism.
• Learn about PHP magic methods and their role in implementing specific functionality, enhancing code flexibility and extensibility.

Unit 7: Advanced PHP Concepts

1. Object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP
2. Creating and using classes and objects
3. Properties and Methods
4. Inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism
5. Static Properties and Methods
6. Magic Methods
7. Practical applications of OOP in PHP development

• Understand the concepts of models, views, and controllers, and understand how they interact within the MVC architecture to handle user requests and manage application data.
• Learn about the benefits of using a framework for web development, such as code reusability, modularity, and rapid development.
• Explore one of the PHP frameworks available, such as Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter.
• Learn about common features provided by PHP frameworks, such as routing, templating, authentication, authorization, and ORM (Object-Relational Mapping).

Unit 8: PHP Framework

1. MVC Model
2. Benefits of using the PHP Framework
3. Getting Started with PHP Framework