PHP for Beginners: Part 4 - Build a Game

Learn to create a Hangman game using HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript in this engaging beginner-friendly course that enhances your coding skills.

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Brief Summary

This course helps you build a Hangman game while learning HTML, CSS, and PHP. It's designed for beginners, packed with clear steps and fun challenges, making coding enjoyable and easy.

Key Points

  • Create a simple Hangman game using HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript.
  • Learn basic code structure and enhance the game with graphics.
  • Short and targeted course lasting around 4 hours.
  • Includes challenges with full solutions to advance your skills.
  • Use ANY development environment; Visual Studio Code and MAMP are suggested.

Learning Outcomes

  • Create a fully functional Hangman game.
  • Understand how to process user input with PHP.
  • Add stylish graphics with HTML5 canvas and Bootstrap.
  • Solve coding challenges to enhance your game.
  • Develop confidence using a variety of coding environments.

About This Course

Use HTML, CSS, PHP and the HTML5 canvas to create a simple Hangman game

This course is intended for those students who would like to complete a simple project. You should be familiar with PHP code, HTML, and CSS. However, each step is fully explained in detail. If you are a proficient PHP coder then this course is probably not right for you!  If you are familiar with my other courses then you should really enjoy this one as you will create a full project.

As an experienced teacher, I often find that some courses are just too long and students lose interest. By keeping this course short (around 4 hours of content) and targeted, you should learn some valuable skills quickly and effectively without the need to sit through hours of code. You will follow along as you and I work together to develop scripts. You will learn about my thought processes as we develop the hangman game. You will also see how I avoid many errors that plague beginner coders.

In this course I will show you how to create a simple hangman game using PHP, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and Javascript.

You will learn the basic code structure and then begin to enhance the game by adding HTML5 canvas graphics and some Bootstrap styling. You will continue to develop the game as the lessons progress and learn how to integrate PHP code with HTML, CSS and jQuery.

At the end of the course you will find a series of challenges with full solutions. These are intended to help you advance the game with some new features.

I strongly recommend that you watch the free course preview videos to see if this course will be suitable for your level of ability as it is aimed at beginners.  If you like the previews, then join today.

I look forward to welcoming you to the course.


THE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

IMPORTANT: Please read carefully

You are free to use ANY development environment including the one that you are already using (if any). In this course, I show you how to download and install Visual Studio Code and MAMP (both of which are FREE and available for Mac and Windows). 

If you are unsure about which code editor option is best for you then I encourage you to contact me and I will be happy to discuss the options with you.

You can also follow this course using your own preferred code editor. 

Once again, using Visual Studio Code with MAMP is OPTIONAL. You can use ANY suitable development environment of your choosing.


MY PROMISES TO YOU

As a registered teacher (yes, I teach in a real classroom every day), I strongly believe it is my job to ensure you feel totally supported when taking my classes. I therefore promise the following:

  • to respect you as a student and individual with your own learning needs

  • to be courteous and polite in our interactions

  • to answer your questions about the course content promptly

  • to fix any issues you may encounter with the lessons

  • to respond promptly to feedback

I really do look forward to welcoming you to this course. I am confident you will enjoy the approach of learning what each line of code actually means.

Join the course today.



  • create a hangman word game using HTML, CSS, and PHP

  • create a HTML form to accept a user input

  • process user input from a HTML form using PHP

Course Curriculum

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I have been teaching students for over 30 years and focus on delivering content in a clear and concise manner. As a national award-winning teacher, I am passionate about education and still teach in the classroom today. My online courses across subjects including coding, game development, and mathematics have attracted many thousands of students across over 120 countries.

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4.9 course rating
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Steve D.
3.0
3 years ago

Good basic overview of one of the basic uses of PHP. I assume this is part of an overall series for beginners. Teacher was knowledgeable and responsive, but content was rather dated, and approaches were not particular standard. Good for beginners, but lacking for more advanced users.

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Gabriel S.
5.0
3 years ago

Very good course, I learned a lot from this course. Is very well explained, this was the 4th course from Patrick, he is a great teacher, every time when you'll need help he will be glad to assist you.
His courses took me the first job in programming.

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John
5.0
3 years ago

An excellent course that focuses on developing a simple (at first) php game. However, while coding the game, other technologies (BootStrap, CSS, Javascript, and jQuery) are incorporated to improve functionality and the user interface. An additional benefit of this course is the author’s logical approach. The code is organized in a modular fashion and there are many examples of code optimization.

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