A Workshop on Basic Web Development was conducted by LUG Manipal. It furnished the attendees with the knowledge of the web technologies required for the upcoming workshop on Facebook Application Development. The primary focus were the concepts behind web development, such as Client Server Architecture, Server Side Languages and Client side Languages.
Day 1:
The XAMP suite was given to the attendees. The focus of the workshop was on PHP, MySQL, HTML. The workshop started with a discussion on the Client Server Architecure. It was followed by an introduction to HTML. Major HTML tags were covered, and the day ended with a simple page, covering most of the important tags.
Day 2:
The second day was devoted to PHP. The basic concepts of server side scripting were covered. Also, the working of PHP, the syntax of PHP statements were taken up. At the end, the attendees were able to pass information from a form to another page and process the information
Day 3:
The focus of the third day was MySQL, and its connection with PHP. In the beginning, basic database concepts were discussed. MySQL was introduced, and basic queries such as INSERT, UPDATE, CREATE TABLE, DELETE, SELECT were discussed.
The Connection of PHP with MySQL with the particular functions was discussed in detail. Inserting values from a form into the database, and retrieving the data from the database and displaying it on the screen was demonstrated.
Day 4:
The day started with an introduction to Sessions and Cookies. The differences between Sessions and Cookies and their respective uses was highlighted. The creation and usage of sessions and cookies using PHP functions was demonstrated. The day ended with a simple login script demonstration. An insight was also given into Facebook application development using PHP, which will be covered in the next workshop.
Slides of the Workshop -> Link Get the Official PHP Manual from its website. Get the Official MySQL Manual from its website.
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