About the Course

Hey there! Thank you so much for joining us in this hands-on course to learn how to practice your PHP and MySQL skills. We hope that you’ll find this course fun!

What we’ll learn

The following topics are included in this course:

• How to connect a PHP application to an SQL-like database with PDO
• How to add or read data in or from a database
• How to update and delete data
• The MVC architecture
• How to secure a PHP application

Topics included

We’ll cover the below skills in this course:

• PDO
• SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE
• MVC pattern
• PHP I/O security
• PHP router

Intended audience

This course is not designed as a beginner or introductory course. This course gives us the opportunity to practice what we already know in a professional setting, so it is written with the assumption that the learner is already familiar with PHP and MySQL.

In case you need a refresher, there are PHP and MySQL introductory courses on the Educative platform.