In this advanced PHP training course, students will learn advanced features of the PHP web programming language, its extensions and open source libraries for XML processing. As the technical web programming paradigm changes, more layers of abstractions are introduced by the PHP open source community. This course takes a deep dive into those areas such as XML/XSLT, XML-RPC, Smarty Templates, Web Services, Ajax and many more. This PHP course also explores the built-in advanced Object Oriented language constructs and looks at some of the best practices with all of the advanced technologies combined.

• Building a Class
• Working with Properties and Functions
• Private, Protected, Public modifiers
• Inheritance
• Interfaces
• Building a Web Page Object
• PHP Objects in N-Tier Web Architecture
• Importance of PHP Business Objects

• Simple XML Object
• Executing XPath Queries
• DOM Interoperability
• Using XPath
• Installing and Configuring LIBXSL
• Applying Server side XSL Transformations
• Using XML in N-Tier Architecture
• Mixing PHP Objects and XML

• Installing PEAR::HTTP_REQUEST with Dependencies
• HTTP_REQUEST Capability
• HTTP GET Request
• HTTP POST Request
• Programmatically Posting to a HTML Form
• Parsing the Response
• Building a Basic Authentication PHP Client

• XML-RPC Implementations
• Installing and Configuring PHPXMLRPC
• XML RPC Data-Types
• XML RPC Server
• XML RPC Client
• XML RPC Request and Response
• Exploring the XML RPC API

• Web Service Technology Stack
• SOAP Soup
• Web Services with PHP
• Installing NuSOAP
• Building a SOAP SERVER
• Consuming a Web Service
• Generating WSDL Dynamically
• Understanding Generated WSDL
• WSDL and SOAP Proxies

• Building Interoperable Web Services
• Generating and Handling SOAP Faults
• RPC Vs. Document Message Encoding
• Serializing the SOAP Envelope
• Web Service Best Practices

• Ajax Overview
• Ajax Technology Stack
• Ajax Implementations
• Installing and configuring HTML_Ajax Pear Module
• Ajax Server
• Ajax Client

• Smarty Overview
• Installing and configuring Smarty Pear Module
• Setting up a Template
• Passing Data to the Template
• Smarty for Template Designers
• Smarty for Programmers
• Smarty in N-Tier Architecture