Introduction to PHP
Matthew Machaj is Educator's Introduction to PHP course. As a self-taught PHP developer, Matthew understands first-hand the difficulties encountered by newcomers to PHP. He focuses on the topics most relevant to web developers looking to build their skill set by learning to add dynamic content and advanced functionality to their websites.
Matthew focuses his lessons on actual code and builds on a web application using new skills learned throughout the series. Topics covered include setting up the development environment, arrays, type casting, user-defined functions, and loops. Downloadable code and homework solutions are included so students can follow along with the lessons.

Advanced PHP Training with MySQL
Matthew Machaj's Advanced PHP with MySQL course continues from his Introduction to PHP course but is also appropriate for those already well versed in PHP. Matthew again focuses on topics relevant to developers and works on real code in text editors as well as executing MySQL commands from the command prompt. A working web application program will also be developed throughout the course to build on new concepts learned. Topics covered include reading/writing files, object-oriented programming, cookies, MySQL databases, and MySQL commands. Downloadable code and homework solutions are included so students can follow along with the lessons.

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