Create a Calendar Booking system in PHP and MySQL

Learn to create your own booking calendar in PHP and MySQL from scratch without using any frameworks and securing it

What you'll learn:
Create a calendar booking application using PHP and MySQL
Allow a user to insert, edit and delete a booking entry in the calendar
Secure the application using a Content Security Policy(CSP) to prevent XSS attacks, prepared statements to protect against SQL injection attacks
Protect the application from bots by building your own captcha and protecting your forms against CSRF attacks
Each line of code is described so to beginners and intermediate students can follow along
Style the calendar using CSS

Requirements:
There is no programming experience required for taking this course although a basic knowledge in some programming language would be beneficial such as arrays, variables, operators. We will be diving into the code in quite detail so even a beginner learning PHP would understand.
Some interest in Web development

Description:
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What will we be doing in this course?

We will be creating a simple calendar from scratch where we will allow users to make booking entries into it and interacting with the database. Users can then edit and delete bookings.
We’re also securing the application.We’re not using any frameworks such as fullCalendar or Google calendar.
Whether you have some PHP experience and wish to improve your Web Security skills then this course may suit you.

- Creating the calendar
- Styling the calendar using CSS
- Setting up the MySQL database
- Insert a calendar entry(booking) into the calendar
- Sanitize and validate the forms in our application
- Display and style the current date
- Displaying booking information from the database
- Delete and edit a calendar entry
- Creating our own captcha to the form to protect from bots
- Using prepared statements to prepare against SQL injection attacks
- Implement a Content Security Policy to protect the application against XSS attacks
- Implement various headers to protect the application from malicious use
- Implement Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSFR)

Lectures are explained in great detail so to cater for a wide audience(beginners and intermediate).
Source code included in each lecture.

Who this course is for:
This course is for anyone wanting to learn PHP and MySQL whether they are at beginner level or intermediate level wishing to brush up on their existing skills
Someone who wants to include a calendar booking system into their existing website or application

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