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Mary Gillen has been an active Web developer since 1995, and has developed SEO-compliant Internet and Intranet Web sites for such organizations as NIH AIDS Research & Reference Reagent Program , The World Bank, The International Brotherhood of the Teamsters, Cancer Research Foundation of America, McKinsey & Company, and many others. She develops Web-based applications using PHP, ColdFusion, XML, XSLT, CSS, SQL, JavaScript, and third-party e-commerce applications.
She is also an experienced technical instructor who has taught over 8,000 individuals across the U.S. since 1995 via classroom and online instruction environments. Mary instructs XML, XSLT, SQL, JavaScript, ColdFusion, PHP, AJAX, Writing for the Web, WordPress, e-commerce, Web/Email Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Using Social Media for Online Marketing courses.
Greg Smith started scripting with Lingo, the scripting language for Macromedia Director, then the standard software for games and educational applications on CDs. Greg developed with Lingo full-time for a year, working on a kiosk-based health information project for the Center for Disease Control.
In 1999 he wrote the Macromedia Authorized Training materials for an Introduction to Flash 4 and for an Advanced Flash class on the yet undocumented first version of ActionScript, now known as ActionScript 0. Greg lives in Houston, teaching online, onsite, and one-on-one classes.
How-to: PHP and Flash Forms
Live, Instructor-Led Online Course
How to: PHP & Flash Forms
1½ Days Online
Instructors: Mary Gillen & Greg Smith
Overview
Web developers and designers know that contact forms are an important part of doing business on the Web. And the same folks know that Web forms created using popular applications like Flash need the processing power of a scripting language like PHP to process the forms and send the content to a database or as an email message.
Now is your chance to learn both. Web developers Greg Smith and Mary Gillen have teamed together to present a unique learning opportunity that fits a real need...how to learn enough PHP to process Flash forms to a MySQL database or as email.
PHP & Flash Forms Training Prerequisites
Attendees should be comfortable with basic HTML prior to taking this course. Don't have a lot of experience using PHP or Flash? No worries. We will lead you through the process...step-by-step.
Software Needed on Each Student Computer
- Internet Explorer 6 or higher
- Firefox 2 or higher
- XAMPP Apache distribution containing MySQL and PHP
- Adobe Flash
- Web page or text editor students will be using after the class
Part 1: Learn Basic PHP
Length: 1 Day
Time: 10 - 5 pm EDT
Instructor: Mary Gillen
Topics covered in class
- How to configure your computer to run PHP
- How to create a database and tables using MySQL
- How to use SQL to query and output information from a database to a PHP Web page
- How to create a simple content management system so you can add, update, and delete information from a MySQL database using Web forms
- How to email information from a Web form using PHP
Part 2: Learn Flash Forms
Length: ½ Day
Time: 10 - 1 pm EDT
Instructor: Greg Smith
Topics covered in class
- How to create simple forms in Flash
- How to connect with MySQL Database using ActionScript 3.0 and PHP
- How to send and receive dynamic variables using ActionScript 3.0 and PHP
- How to format data using the DataGrid Object
Tuition: $449 per person
Register:
June 16-17, 2010 | July 20-21, 2010 | August 24-25, 2010 | September 15-16, 2010 | October 26-27, 2010 | November 17-18, 2010 | December 01-02, 2010
Testimonials
"I took an SQL class with Mary some time ago. She was explaining 'joins'. When she finished, all the students had the 'deer in the headlights' look. We didn't have a clue of what joins were. More advanced concepts were coming after joins, so it wasn't looking good. Not to worry. Mary sent us on break and promised to have a better explanation by the time we returned.
We left the room with no hope of learning anything else that day. However, when we returned from break, Mary had a new approach for explaining joins, and we quickly got the concept.
This is just one example of Mary's willingness to go the extra mile in order to give students what they need. I find that Mary's teaching style works for me, and I will seek her out again and again when I have training needs."
- Toni Tates
Webmaster/Desktop Publisher
NIH AIDS Research & Reference Reagent Program
Germantown, MD
Other instructor-led online classes available:
ColdFusion | Advanced ColdFusion | HTML | CSS | Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional | Search Engine Optimization Essentials | PHP | Javascript | XML | XSLT | Using Social Media for Online Marketing