Easy PHP Projects: Single-Serving Sites

Course details

Sometimes simple websites are more effective than complex ones. In this course, discover the beauty and power of single-serving sites. Easy PHP Projects is a series of small-scale PHP projects targeted at PHP beginners as well as experienced developers looking to practice their skills. Each of the projects in this installment results in a stand-alone, single-page website. Kevin Skoglund shows how to determine a user's IP address and browser details, parse and compare dates, generate dynamic page styles, and create sentences from randomized fragments.

Learning objectives
Finding and validating an IP address with PHP
Parsing the HTTP request for browser details
Comparing dates and times in PHP
Randomizing data with PHP
Styling page content dynamically
Generating random sentences

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - How to use the exercise files
03 - Introducing single-serving sites

1. What is My IP Address

04 - Find an IP address with PHP
05 - Understanding proxy servers
06 - Find forwarded IP addresses
07 - Validate an IP address
08 - Finish up

2. Browser Mirror

09 - Display a full request report
10 - Decode request time
11 - Browser detective
12 - Decode browser details
13 - Finding browser window size

3. Is it New Years Yet

14 - Work with date and time in PHP
15 - Is it Friday yet
16 - Is this a leap year
17 - Add a form for year selection
18 - Convert a time string to a timestamp
19 - Is Star Wars out yet
20 - Add a form for episode selection

4. Random Data and Styling

21 - Randomize data in PHP
22 - Random color squares
23 - Random text styling
24 - Delete elements from arrays
25 - You are awesome

5. Random Phrase Generator

26 - Introducing PHP array rand
27 - Generate sentence parts
28 - Generate complex sentences
29 - Increase complexity

Conclusion

30 - Next steps

Easy PHP Projects: Single-Serving Sites

Authors

Kevin Skoglund