Notes on PHPBridge apps.md

Dev env tools

• PHP installers
  • Mac http://php-osx.liip.ch/
  • Windows http://windows.php.net/download
  • Linux: you can figure it out
• Editor
  • Komodo Edit http://komodoide.com/download/
• DB
  • SQLite Browsing tool http://sqlitebrowser.org/

Running the dev server

• write a .bat file for Windows
• write a bash script for Linux and OS X

Basic PHP should start with "hello world" and the change/refresh cycle
then basic variables (container for a value)

Then on to

1. booleans, numbers and math
2. strings and string functions
3. scalar vs. complex types and juggling types
4. basic arrays
5. basic objects
6. logic - if, else, foreach, for, while
7. basic functions
8. basic classes

After "this is PHP" we should get into "this is the web"

1. HTTP, sockets, what the internet is and how it works in basic terms
2. request -> response and PHP (shared nothing)
3. basic html (here is your template for future pages)
4. PHP speaks http! (POST and GET and a sidenote on redirects)

Now we get into forms

1. basic forms (var dump our data)
2. basic security (all people are evil cats)
3. check input (validate)
4. escape output and separation of concerns
5. populating forms, errors, redirecting

Databases!

Use - pdo? or sqlite3?

how much of db to do?

and then basic "write crud"