PHP

PHP's name is an recursive acronym for: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP script is an HTML- embedded scriting language Designed to do something only after event occurs. e.g. when user submit forms

A Server-Side language the code resides on a host computer that serves Web pages

to the requesting visitors (client). PHP is easy to use for Web development because it

has many built-in functions that make web programming simpler, so that programmers can focus on the logic of programming without wasting precious development time

PHP

client serverURL request

HTML

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Script requestHTML

PHP Block

PHP code skeleton:

<?php …. ?>

<? … ?>

<script language = “PHP”> … </script>

First style

Second style

Third style

PHP Programming Style

Sending data to web browser

Use PHP built in functions Example

▪ echo ‘Hello Student’;▪ print “ How are you”;

Case-insensitive for function names▪ ECHO, echo, Echo

Other print functions print_r, var_dump - value of variable print_f - formatting what you print

White space, HTML and PHP

White spaces - blank lines, tabs and extra spaces To alter spacing of finished web page,

use▪ <br /> - line break ▪ <p></p> - paragraph

To alter spacing of HTML source from PHP, use▪ echo() or print() over the course of several

lines ▪ \n (newline character) within double

quotation marks

Writing comments

Important aspect to dynamic web site development

Viewable in the source but not in the browser window

PHP supports 3 type of comments # this is a comment // this is also a comment /* this is a larger comment that spans two line */

Variables

Rules of thumbVariable name must start with dollar

sign ($)Combination of strings, numbers and the

underscoreFirst character after dollar sign cannot

be a numberCase sensitiveAssigned value using equals sign (=)

String

A quoted chunk of letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation .. Example strings

‘hello’ ‘software’ ‘1000’ ’12 January, 2006’

String variable – assign a string value to valid variable name $today =’16 July, 2007’;

To print out echo $today; echo “Today is $today”;

Concatenation string Addition of strings using period (.).

▪ $day=‘12’;▪ $month=‘January’;▪ $year =‘2006’;▪ $today = $day . ’ ‘ . $month . ’ ‘ . $year;

Use it extensively when building database queries in later chapters

Numbers

Valid number-type variables can be 8 3.14 1098727272798 -4.2828282

Arithmetic operators + addition - subtraction * multiplication / division % modular ++ increment -- decrement

Numbers

Functions round()

▪ $j = 3.14;▪ $k = round( $j);

number_format()▪ $p =20980;▪ $g=number_format($p);▪ $g=number_format($p,2);

Constant

Specific data type Retain initial value throughout script Cannot change once it has been set

Use define()▪ define (‘AGE’, ‘value’);

Print constant▪ echo ‘Hello, ‘ . AGE; OR▪ echo ‘Hello,’, AGE;

Single vs Double Quotation Marks

Single quote -> values treated literally Double quote -> interpolated Example:

$var =‘Hello’;

echo “var equal to $var”;▪ var equal to hello

echo ‘var equal to $var’;▪ var equal to $var

echo “\$var is equal to $var”;▪ $var is equal to hello

Single vs Double quotation marks

“” replace variables name with its value

and a special character’s code (\$) with its represented value

‘’ display exactly what you type, except for

the escaped single quote (\’) and the escape backslash(\\).

PROGRAMMING WITH PHP

PROGRAMMING WITH PHP

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Creating an HTML form Handling an HTML form Conditional and Operators Validating Form Data Sending Values to A Script Manually What are Arrays For and While Loops

HTML form

Managing HTML form with PHP involves 2 steps :

1.Step 1:Create HTML form with any text editor• HTML form (.htm/.html) is created using the HTML

form tags and various input types.

2. Step 2:Create PHP scripts that receives form data• PHP script (.php) is created to receives the submitted

form data and handle it.

Handling HTML formStep 1: create html form

Step 2: create php scripts that receive form data

Step 1: create html form form.html

how dat ais sent(get or post)

which page the form data will be send

Step 2: create php script procesform.php

Superglobal variable

If you have a text box in html form with name attribute age, PHP will store the text entered there in a variable called $age (registered global variable)

$age is similar to $_POST[‘age’] (superglobal variables)

eg : ( in HTML form)

eg : ( in PHP scripts)

echo “<p>Thank you, {$_POST[‘age’]} for the following comments”;

<p><b>Age: </b><input type ="text" name=“age" size="20" maxlength="40"/></p>

attributes

Conditional and Operators Dynamic web frequently use conditionals to alter

script behavior 3 primary terms – if, else, elseif

Syntax:

if (condition) { // do something!}

if (condition) { // do something!} else { // do something else!}

if (condition1) { // do something!} elseif (condition2) { // do something else!} else { // do something else!}

Conditional and Operators Condition can be TRUE for any

number of reasons. Below are common TRUE conditions:

$var, if $var has a value other than 0, an empty string or NULL

isset($var), if $var has any value other than NULL, including 0 and an empty string.

TRUE

Conditional and Operators

Comparative and Logical Operators

Symbol Meaning Type example

= Is assigned the value of Assignment $n=1

== Is equal to Comparison $x==$y

!= Is not equal to Comparison $x!=$y

< Less than Comparison $x < $y

> Greater than Comparison $x > $y

Conditional and Operators switch

Used in place of a long if–elseif–else conditional

Syntax :switch ($variable) {

case ‘value1’ :// do thisbreak;

case ‘value2’ :// do thisbreak;

default :// do thisbreak;

}

Validating Form Data

Use of conditionals and any number of functions, operators and expressions. Common functions : empty(), strlen(), isset()

Aims of validating data

Why validate form?

• To ensure that something was entered or selected in form elements.

• To ensure that submitted data is of the right type (numeric, string, etc), of the right format (eg: email addr), or a specific acceptable value (eg: $gender is either M or F)

Sending Values to a script manually

2 ways to pass a PHP script variables and values

Use HTML hidden input type<input type=“hidden” name=”name” value=“Brian”/>- As long as this code is anywhere between the form

tags, the variable $name will have a value of ‘Brian’ in the handling PHP script

To append a value to the handling PHP scripts URLwww.smkbbb.edu.my/page.php?name=Brian- Emulate the get method of an HTML form

The $source variable

The page (handle_calculator.php) that handles the form (calculator.html) will receive a $source variable to indicate where the data (hidden input) came from.

The $source variable need also be validated; is set or not and if it is set with value, is the value correct or not.

Observe the action attribute in the form tag below :

appended!

What are Arrays?

An array can hold multiple, separate pieces of information List of values Each value being a string or a number or even

another array Structured as a series of key-value pairs.

Each item in the list, there is a key associate with it. Support 2 kind of arrays

Indexed – use numbers as the key Associative – use strings as key

What are Arrays?

Example – indexed $artists

Example – associative $states

Key Value

0 Low

1 Aimee

2 Ani Difranco

3 Spiritualized

Key Value

MD Maryland

PA Penssylvania

IL Illinois

MO Missouri

What are Arrays?

To retrieve a specific value from an array, refer to the array name, followed by the key, in square brackets echo $artists[2]; echo $states[‘MD’];

To print, wrap array name with curly braces echo “IL is the abbreviation for {$states[‘IL’]}.”;

Superglobal Arrays

Very useful and powerful tool By default, PHP uses several types of

arrays $_GET to store all of the variables and values sent via the get

method $_POST to store all of the variables and values sent via the

post method $_SESSION, $_COOKIE

Creating Arrays

Syntax to create arrays Add an element at a time

▪ $array[] =‘value’;▪ $array[] =‘value one’;▪ $array[‘key’] =‘more values’;

Use array() function to build an entire array▪ $array =array(‘key’ =>’value’, ‘key2’ => ‘value2’);▪ $array =array(‘value’,’value2’,’value3’);

Create an array of sequential numbers, use range()▪ $ten = range(1,10);

Accessing arrays

Access every array element, use foreach loop:Syntax :

foreach ($array as $value) echo $value ;

Iterate through every element in $array, assigning each element value to the $value variable.

To access both the keys and values Syntax : foreach ($array as $key => $value)

echo “The array value at $key is $value”;

Multidimensional arrays

An array consisting of other arrays Combine 2 arrays into 1 multidimensional array

▪ $states = array (‘MD’ =>’MaryLand’, ‘IL’ =>’Illinois’);▪ $provinces = array (‘QC’ =>’Quebec’, ‘AB’ =>’Alberta’);▪ $abbr = array (‘US’ =>$states, ‘Canade =>$provinces’);

To access $states array▪ $abbr[‘US’];

To access Maryland▪ $abbr[‘US’][‘MD’]

To print out▪ echo “The US state whose abbreviation is MD is {$abbr[‘US’][‘MD’]}.”;

Array and strings

2 functions for converting between strings and arrays $array = explode (separator, $string);

▪ Turning a string into an array▪ $string =‘Jan-Feb-Mac-Apr-May’;▪ $array =explode (‘-’, $string);

$string = implode (glue, $array);▪ Turning an array to string

▪ $string =implode (‘ , ’, $array);▪ $string= ‘Jan,Feb,Mac,Apr,May’;

Sorting Arrays

Use built in PHP function sort() – sort an array by value discarding the

original keys▪ The array keys will be reset after the sorting process

▪ Avoid use this function if key-value relationship is important.

asort() – sort an array by value while maintaining the key

ksort() – sort an array by key Each of these can sort reverse order by

changing them to ▪ rsort() , arsort() , krsort()

shuffle() – to randomize the order of an array

For and While Loops While loop

If the condition is still true, the loop will be executedSyntax :

while (condition) { // do something

} For loop first the initial expression is run, checked the condition

and if true, content of the loop is executed. After execution, checked closing expression with condition again.Syntax :

for (initial expression; condition; closing expression) { // do something

}