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PHP with MySQL Essential Training: 2 Build a CMS

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Overview

Strengthen your PHP and MySQL skills by building a robust content management system with secure user authentication.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • PHP with MySQL Essential Training: Build a CMS
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Create a Content Management System
  • Blueprint the application
  • Set up the database
  • Set up the project files
2. Build Dynamic Content Navigation
  • List subjects
  • Add pages for each subject
  • Add page content
  • Use navigation to select pages
  • Highlight the current page
  • Challenge: Collapsing navigation
  • Solution: Collapsing navigation
3. Use Context and Options
  • The public context
  • Skip hidden subjects and pages
  • Use an option for conditional code
  • Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
  • Protect page visibility
  • Allow HTML in dynamic content
  • Challenge: Preview content
  • Solution: Preview content
4. Cookies and Sessions
  • Work with cookies
  • Set and read cookie values
  • Unset cookie values
  • Work with sessions
  • Set and read session values
  • Challenge: Status messages
  • Solution: Status messages
5. Regulate Page Access
  • User authentication overview
  • Create admins table
  • Challenge: Build admin management
  • Solution: Build admin management
  • PHP password functions
  • Authenticate user access
  • Require authorization
  • Log out a user
  • Optional password updating
  • Authorized previewing
6. Nesting Related Resources
  • Understand nested resources
  • List pages by subject
  • Use nested links
  • Use nested redirects
  • Add page count to each subject
  • Scope page position by subject
  • Challenge: Update positions
  • Solution: Update positions
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Kevin Skoglund

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