PHP (officially "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP code is embedded right in your HTML, like Javascript, but the code executes on the web server before the HTML is sent, instead of on the client machine.

• PHP vs CGI
  • Cover how CGI works
  • Cover how code embedded in HTML works (a la ASP and php)
  • Compare/contrast.
  • Other alternatives.

  • ADD database problems

• The "look and feel" of PHP
  • What does PHP look like
  • Compare/contrast to Perl and C/C++.
• Go over some specific pieces of functionality from the manual
  • Mail
  • DBMS (Niall)
  • Regexp.
    • Perl
    • Posix
  • Strings
  • Arrays
  • Filesystems
• Installation (Niall)
• Demonstrate or talk about RSVP
  • defaults.inc
  • index.phtml
  • mainform.phtml
• Demonstrate or talk about LunchBunch
  • defaults.inc
    
  • appdefaults.inc
  • index.phtml
• Resources
  • Main PHP website http://www.php.net/
  • When should you use PHP? http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=407249
  • Installation
  • PHP Builder http://www.phpbuilder.com/
  • PHP Vault http://www.phpvault.com/
  • Developer Shed http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/
  • HotScripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP
  • PHP is bad for you (funny) http://bbspot.com/News/2000/6/php_suspend.html
• Q&A