Module 2 Overview

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PHP

Our second module for this class went over PHP. PHP is a scripting language that can be used to create more interactive webpages. In the assignments, I learned how to set up PHP inside HTML code, create variables and arrays, use control flow, and setting up loops & functions. In class, we also practiced some examples of PHP with our own webpages. I found PHP Manual to work the best out of all of our assignments. It showed how to integrate PHP with HTML files to create more responsive webpages, with I talk about below. The PHP module helped provide the foundation of creating more dynamic webpages and is built on further in the MySQL module.

Learning Artifact

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PHP Manual

Codecademy and w3schools were used again to introduce the basics of PHP. While helpful, they were still very basic. In the PHP Manual assignment, we actually created a responsive webpage. The tutorial involves adding a form in HTML that asks for the users name and age. After entering the information and submitting it, PHP script outputs a message in a new window. This assignment gives an example of how the post method is used to get and store a response from the user. While simple, it demonstrates how PHP is used with HTML to create things like log-in forms and search bars. Here is a picture of what that finished webpage looks like:

Here is a link to the PHP Manual page of our assignment portfolio with the working code.