Using PHP

We are lucky at Horbury Academy to have a web server that our students can access. I have set them all up with an individual FTP account so they can post live web pages and use PHP running on Apache.
This double lesson starts to introduce them to actual coding but also how to upload files to the server.
In practice, syncing between local files, remote files, and the browser cache took the students a while and I would cover this in more detail in future.




 I chose PHP because I think t meets these criteria.

• Simple to understand
• Syntax is simple.
• Powerful 
• It is widely used in industry, so will be useful for the students later
• Students can install PHP on their home computers using XAMP

One issue with PHP is that it isnt easy to use an "input" command. This lesson also covers HTML forms (in fact we did forms first)


Click here to download the Using PHP presentation

Click here to download the Creating Web Forms worksheet