PHP Training Courses

In the current economic climate as companies fight for business and employees fight for the best jobs, competitive advantage is more important than ever & training is the vital key to success. A PHP certification could help you secure new contracts and recession proof your business.

ibuildings_logo_smallForLinux is proud to announce that we have teamed up with Ibuildings, the UK’s leading authority on PHP, to offer PHP training courses to the public. This is a new initiative designed to open up training to individuals, freelancers and small development teams by providing a easy and cost effective way to validate your PHP skills.

ForLinux offers a range of PHP training courses; from the introductory ‘Essentials’ course through to the ‘Certification’ training and advanced workshops. Our experienced trainers have a lot of real-life and hands-on experience in using PHP and each trainer is a Zend Certified Engineer. We currently have a range of public courses scheduled at our purpose built training centre, all aimed at significantly advancing your PHP knowledge and competitive edge, whatever your current level. To discuss your requirements and for information on training dates please call us now on 0845 4210430.

If you have ever wondered how to integrate AJAX into your PHP coding then this is the course for you. This 3 day course is packed with practical applications building and will enable you to master the world of Web 2.0 development.

This is unique opportunity for you to attend a 4 day PHP training course and receive an voucher to complete your certification at any Pearson Vue centre in the UK. The 4 day, Instructor-led course will fully prepare you for your examination and is full of exercises and examples that meet the certification levels and correspond to the various different aspect you will face in the exam.

If you are considering using Zend Framework in a new or existing project, then this comprehensive training will give you all the essential information you will need. This 4 day tutorial-style course takes an in-depth look at Zend Framework and its components. This course will also help you if you need to debug or expand upon another application using it.

Are you looking for a course to give you a solid foundation in PHP? Then why not let the experts train you? This 3 day, instructor-led training course is designed to give you all the basic knowledge you need to get started with PHP. The course is aimed at deepening your knowledge of the language and its best programming practices. This training includes lots of practical application-building and will challenge you with real-world examples.

Are you ready for the PHP Certification? Test your PHP knowledge here.

Train your way to a recession proof business.

As the economic downturn pushes demand for services down, competition for the remaining business intensives. Businesses have to ensure their staff are highly trained to latest industry standards in order to gain competitive advantage and differentiate themselves from the competition.

“Becoming a certified expert brings many benefits to the engineer,to the company and its clients.” “The ZCE Certification demonstrates that the development team keeps in step with the latest PHP technology. And it helps to show our customers and prospects that we have highly qualified PHP developers where it matters most of all – their critical projects.” Dmitry Karpovich, Oxagile CEO. http://www.zend.com/en/company/news/press/zend-further-expands-its-line

Building Rich Internet Applications with PHP5 & AJAX

Duration 3 days, £900 per delegate

This course ensures a lot of practical application-building exercises to ensure that you don’t just get the theory, but fully understand the real-time functionalities behind Building RIA’s powered by PHP, AJAX and Web services.

Topics include:

  • Proper HTML(X) Programming
  • Web service creation and management
  • REST
  • XML-RPC and SOAP
  • JavaScript Primer
  • Asynchronous operations
  • Debugging
  • Using JSON for data transfer
  • Managing events with JavaScript
  • Security

By the end of this course you will have mastered the process of building RIA’s with PHP5, AJAX & Web Services.

For further information, contact our team on 0845 4210 430

PHP Zend Certification Training and Exam voucher

Duration 4 Days, £1200 per delegate

The Zend Certification Exam is the industry standard for PHP Professionals and this intense training course will fully prepare you for your examination. The course is full of numerous, hands-on exercises and examples built in line with the exam objectives aimed at honing in your PHP skills to maximise your successful completion of the course.

As part of this course, you will receive an examination voucher for the PHP Zend Certification which can be redeemed at any Pearson Vue centre &,  as ForLinux is a Pearson Vue Authorised Test Centre, you can come back after the training course and sit your exam, alternatively, you can sit it at any other Pearson Vue centre in the UK.

Topics include:

  • PHP basics
  • String & Patterns
  • Arrays
  • Functions
  • Security
  • Web Features
  • Databases & SQL
  • PHP 4/5
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • XML and Web Services
  • Design and Theory
  • Streams & Network Programming

By the end of this course you will be fully prepared on each exam topic and on your way towards becoming a Zend Certified Engineer!

Zend Framwork Training

Duration 4 days, £1200 per delegate

This 4 day tutorial-style course takes an in-depth look at Zend Framework and its components. Through out the course, delegates will be challenged with real world examples and have the opportunity to build a real application.

Topics include:

  • Model View Controller (MVC) Basics
  • MVC in Zend Framework
  • Data access
  • Web Services with Zend Framework
  • Authorization and Authentication
  • Exceptions
  • Error Management
  • RIA with Zend Framewrok
  • Working with Forms
  • Page Layouts
  • Advanced functionality
  • Framework internals
  • Tips and Tricks

After completing this course you will have the necessary background information about MVC frameworks. You will be able to utilise Zend Framework in your existing projects, as well as to debug and optimise current projects with it. You will also have a reference of Zend Framework components for use after the training.

PHP Essentials Training

Duration 3 days, £900 per delegate

This 3 day training course is designed to enable Web Developers and others with limited PHP programming experience to build dynamic, database driven, e-commerce sites, using the PHP programming language.

Topics include:

  • Essential PHP Elements: language structure, data types, application design
  • Strings and Functions
  • Arrays
  • HTTP
  • Forms
  • Cookies and Sessions
  • Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • Files
  • Databases
  • SQL

By the end of this course, you will fully understand the benefits of using PHP in web application development and the way it is used in companies nowadays. You will learn the main features of PHP development and acquire the basic skills to work with PHP, providing you with an excellent grounding for further training.

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