Overview
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Learn how to use PHP to work with virtually any data source.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- What are data sources?
- What you should know
- Other helpful courses
- Reading from flat files
- What is an API?
- REST, JSON, and other common terms
- Parsing RSS feeds
- Databases
- Web services
- Reading basically any file
- How to read from a file
- Getting data from an open API
- Getting data from a protected API
- Reading a RSS feed
- A note about cURL
- Challenge: Build a random image generator
- Solution: Build a random image generator
- Types of databases supported by PHP
- A quick tour of the database
- Connecting to MySQL
- Writing to a MySQL database
- Challenge: Write a web form to submit to a database
- Solution: Write a web form to submit to a database
- Next steps
