1. Stacey Mulcahy| Technical Evangelist Jamie Kosoy | Content Developer
PHP on Azure
Stacey Mulcahy| Technical Evangelist
Jamie Kosoy | Content Developer

2. Meet Stacey Mulcahy |@bitchwhocodes
Technical Evangelist for Microsoft
Focused on web development, Open Source, IoT, Design
and UX
Channel 9 Contributor – channel9.com/niners/bitchwhocodes
International speaker

3. Meet Jamie Kosoy| ‏@jkosoy
Founder / Tech Director of Arbitrary
Mad Scientist Programmer
Teacher. Parsons and University of San Francisco
Life Achievements
Has a web site on permanent display in MoMI in Queens, NY
Built a life-sized Arduino powered R2D2
Taught the Food Network what a hoagie is

4. Course Topics An Introduction to PHP on Azure 01 | Getting Started
05 | Creating an API
02 | From Static to Dynamic
06 | Deploying to Azure
03 | Forms, Sessions & Cookies
07 | Supplement Your Knowledge
04 | PHP and MySQL

5. Setting Expectations Target Audience
Front end developer
Server side developer
Some familiarity with server side technologies
Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material
Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web
XAMMP, WAMP (

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7. Introduction to PHP

8. Introduction and Getting Started
History of PHP
PHP in the Wild
Development Environment
Getting information about configuration settings
Hello World
Scalar Data Types
Compound Data Types
Functions

9. About PHP Server side scripting language for web development
General purpose language
Originally stood for “Personal Home Pages”
Later stands for “Hypertext PreProcessor”
Dynamic and weakly typed

10. PHP In The Wild
PHP is the 4th most popular language type for newly created repositories in Github
Mod_php is the most popular Apache module
Of websites where the server side language is known, it’s listed that 82% of them are PHP
Popular for CMS including WordPress, Joomla, MediaWiki, and Drupal.

11. Development Environment
LAMP web development environments can be downloaded
Can use MAMP, XAMPP, WAMP (
Can use IIS to support PHP (

12. Configure IIS for PHP

13. Configuration Settings
PHP can be configured
For example, some libraries like CURL need to be included in some server environments
To view how your server is configured, use phpinfo()

14. Viewing Configuration Settings

15. Hello World in PHP

16. Scalar Data Types TYPE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE Integer Whole Number
-4, 512
Float
Floating Point Number
3.14,
String
Characters
“Jamie” ,
Boolean
True or False
true, false

17. Scalar Data Types

18. Compound Data Types TYPE DESCRIPTION Array
Holds many values indexed by string or numbers
Object
Holds many properties, may contain methods

19. Compound Data Types

20. Functions