COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1 – Linux, Apache and PHP Fundamentals

·      Module 1: Introduction to LAMP Stack

o  Understanding full-stack web development

o  LAMP architecture

o  Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP overview

o  How LAMP components work together

o  Client-server architecture

o  Setting up the development environment

·      Module 2: Linux Fundamentals

o  Introduction to Linux

o  Understanding the Linux file system

o  Basic Linux commands

o  Creating and managing files and directories

o  File permissions

o  Users and groups

·      Module 3: Apache Web Server

o  Introduction to Apache

o  Understanding web servers

o  Apache directory structure

o  Starting and stopping Apache

o  Basic Apache configuration

o  Document root

·      Module 4: PHP Fundamentals

o  Introduction to PHP

o  PHP syntax

o  Variables and data types

o  Operators

o  Conditional statements

o  Loops

o  Functions

o  Arrays

o  Working with HTML and PHP

o  Hands-on: Build a simple dynamic PHP page

Day 2 – MySQL and Database-Driven PHP

·      Module 5: MySQL Fundamentals

o  Introduction to relational databases

o  Understanding databases and tables

o  Columns, rows and data types

o  Primary and foreign keys

o  Creating databases

o  Creating and modifying tables

·      Module 6: SQL Fundamentals

o  Introduction to SQL

o  INSERT statements

o  SELECT statements

o  UPDATE statements

o  DELETE statements

o  Filtering and sorting data

o  Basic joins

·      Module 7: Connecting PHP with MySQL

o  Database connectivity concepts

o  Connecting PHP to MySQL

o  Executing SQL queries from PHP

o  Retrieving database records

o  Displaying database data on web pages

·      Module 8: Forms and CRUD Operations

o  Creating HTML forms

o  Processing form submissions with PHP

o  Input validation

o  Create operations

o  Read operations

Day 3 – Complete LAMP Application and Deployment

·      Module 9: PHP Application Development

o  Organizing PHP applications

o  Reusing code

o  Includes and required files

o  Sessions and cookies

o  Basic application navigation

·      Module 10: Authentication and Security Fundamentals

o  User registration and login concepts

o  Password hashing

o  Session-based authentication

o  Input validation and sanitization

o  SQL injection awareness

·      Module 11: Building a Complete LAMP Application

Participants will build a simple database-driven application incorporating:

o  PHP frontend and server-side logic

o  Apache web server

o  MySQL database

o  User input forms

o  Database connectivity

o  CRUD functionality

o  Basic authentication

·      Module 12: Deployment and Best Practices

o  Preparing an application for deployment

o  Apache configuration basics

o  Database configuration

o  Environment and configuration files

o  File and directory permissions

o  Application debugging