What’s the Best Way to Master PHP?

Categories: Programming Language, Technical

About Course

Dive into the world of PHP with this comprehensive course designed for aspiring developers and seasoned programmers alike. Whether you’re starting fresh or looking to deepen your expertise, this course will equip you with the tools and techniques needed to create robust, secure, and scalable web applications.

You’ll start with the basics, gaining a strong foundation in PHP syntax, data structures, and core concepts. As the course progresses, you’ll tackle advanced topics, including:

Security best practices to safeguard your applications.
Performance optimization and caching for faster, more efficient code.
Dependency management and injection for modular, maintainable projects.
Routing and configuration for modern frameworks.
Testing methodologies to ensure reliability and quality.

But that’s not all—this course emphasizes practical learning. Through hands-on exercises and real-world projects, you’ll build and deploy dynamic applications while reinforcing your skills every step of the way.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the confidence to tackle any PHP challenge, from simple scripts to enterprise-grade solutions.

Who This Course is For:

Beginners eager to learn PHP from scratch.
Intermediate developers looking to enhance their skills.
Professionals seeking to build scalable, high-performing applications.

Join now and start your journey to becoming a PHP expert today!

Course Content

Section-1

Full PHP 8 Overview

07:00
How To Install PHP & What Are Web Servers

08:29
Basic PHP Syntax

12:32
What Are Constants & Variable Variables In PHP

08:07
PHP Data Types – Typecasting Overview & How It Works

00:00
PHP Boolean Data Type

04:44
PHP Integer Data type

04:51
PHP Float Data Type

07:51
PHP String Data Type

00:00
PHP Null Data Type

00:00
PHP Array Data Type ( Indexed, Associative & Multi-Dimensional Arrays )

00:00
What Are Expressions In PHP & How They Are Evaluated

00:00
PHP Operators Part 1

00:00
PHP Operators Part 2

00:00
PHP Operator Precedence & Associativity

00:00
Control Structures in PHP – Conditional Statements – if/else

00:00
PHP Loops Tutorial – Break & Continue Statements

00:00
PHP Switch Statement – Switch vs if/else statement

00:00
PHP Match Expression – Match vs Switch

00:00
PHP Return, Declare & Tickable Statements

06:51
How To Include Files In PHP – Include and Require

00:00
How To Create Functions In PHP – Functions Tutorial

00:00
PHP Function Parameters – Named Arguments – Variadic Functions & Unpacking

00:00
PHP Variable Scopes – Static Variables

00:00
Variable, Anonymous, Callable, Closure & Arrow Functions In PHP

00:00
How To Work With Dates & Time Zones

00:00
How To Work With Arrays In PHP

00:00
How To Work With PHPs Configuration File – PHP.INI

00:00
PHP Error Handling & Error Handlers

00:00
Basic Apache Webserver Configuration & Virtual Hosts

00:00
Working With File System In PHP

00:00

Mini Projects

Section-2

Intro to Object Oriented Programming

04:19
PHP Docker Tutorial – Nginx – PHPFPM VS Apache

14:39
PHP Classes & Objects – Typed Properties – Constructors & Destructors

21:15
Constructor Property Promotion – Nullsafe Operator

00:00
PHP Namespace Tutorial

00:00
PHP Coding Standards, Autoloading (PSR-4) & Composer

00:00
Object Oriented PHP – Class Constants

00:00
Static Properties & Methods In Object Oriented PHP

00:00
PHP – Encapsulation & Abstraction

00:00
PHP – Inheritance Explained – Is Inheritance Good?

00:00
PHP Abstract Classes & Methods

00:00
PHP Interfaces & Polymorphism – Interfaces Explained

00:00
What Are PHP Magic Methods & How They Work

00:00
What Is Late Static Binding & How It Works In PHP

00:00
PHP Traits – How They Work & Drawbacks

00:00
PHP Anonymous Classes

00:00
PHP Variable Storage & Object Comparison – Zend Value (zval)

00:00
PHP DocBlock – Adding Comments to Classes & Methods

00:00
PHP – Object Cloning & Clone Magic Method

04:43
PHP Serialize Objects & Serialize Magic Methods

11:47
OOP Error Handling In PHP – Exceptions & Try Catch Finally Blocks

00:00
PHP – DateTime Object

00:00
PHP Iterators & Iterable Type – Iterate Over Objects

00:00
PHP Superglobals – Basic Routing Using The Server Info

00:00
Get & Post Superglobals In PHP – Forms – Post Routes

00:00
PHP Sessions & Cookies – Output Buffering – Headers Already Sent Warning

00:00
PHP File Uploads

00:00
PHP MVC Pattern – View Parameters Exploit

00:00
HTTP Headers In PHP – Request & Response Headers

00:00
Intro To MySQL For PHP

00:00
PHP PDO Tutorial Part 1 – Prepared Statements – SQL Injection

00:00
PHP PDO Tutorial Part 2 – Transactions – Env Variables & PHPDotEnv

00:00
PHP PDO Tutorial Part 3 – Models & Refactoring

00:00
Section 2 review & exercise project

00:00

Section-3

PHP OOP Tutorial Section 3 – Intro to Testing

00:00
PHP Unit Testing – PHPUnit Tutorial

00:00
PHPUnit Tutorial Part 2 – Mocking

00:00
Dependency Injection & DI Containers

00:00
Dependency Injection Container With & Without Reflection API Autowiring

00:00
DI Container With Interface Support

00:00
PHP Generators Explained

00:00
PHP WeakMap Explained

00:00
What’s New In PHP 8.1 – Deprecations & Backward Incompatible Changes

00:00
Covariance & Contravariance in PHP

00:00
PHP Attributes – Simple Router With Attributes

00:00
PHP Enums With Practical Examples

00:00
Composition vs Inheritance in PHP With Practical Examples

00:00
How to Send Email in PHP – Symfony Mailer – Email Protocols – Mailhog Setup

00:00
How to Schedule Emails in PHP – Run Automated Scripts Using CRON

00:00
Intro to Doctrine PHP – DataBase Abstraction Layer – Query Builder

00:00
Doctrine ORM – PHP Entities & Data Mapper Pattern

00:00
Doctrine ORM Query Builder

00:00
What Are Database Migrations & How To Use Doctrine Migrations

00:00
What is active record pattern & how Laravel implements it with Eloquent

00:00
Refactor to use Eloquent instead of Doctrine DBAL

00:00
PHP cURL API Tutorial – Emailable API Integration

00:00
Refactor cURL to Guzzle With Retry Logic – Multiple API Integrations

00:00
Data Transfer Objects – What Are DTOs

00:00
Value Objects Practical Example – What is a Value Object?

00:00
Intro to Templating Engines – Blade & Twig

00:00
How To Install Xdebug 3 with Docker & PhpStorm

00:00
How To Deploy Vanilla PHP To Cloudways

00:00
Intro to Slim PHP Framework

00:00
Slim Framework With PHP-DI & Doctrine ORM

00:00
Little Refactoring Never Hurt Nobody

00:00
How To Create CLI App & Commands

00:00
100th Video In This PHP Series – Project Overview

00:00

Projects

Set Up Expennies Project Locally – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Let’s Do Some Data Modeling & Create Entities – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
User Registration & Password Hashing – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Add Form Validation To User Registration – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Display Validation Errors & Keep Form Filled – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Session Based Authentication – Session Hijacking & Fixation – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
How to Pass Authenticated User to the Request – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Implement Session Interface – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Sessions & Referrer URL Refactor – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Request Validation – Factory Design Pattern – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
CSRF Explained – What Is Cross Site Request Forgery – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
XSS Explained – What Is Cross Site Scripting – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Let’s Build CRUD Actions For Categories – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
First Ajax Request – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
POST Ajax Requests With CSRF Fields – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Ajax Request Validation – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Display Errors Using JavaScript & Bootstrap – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
DataTables & Pagination – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
How To Securely Implement Sorting & Filtering – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Transactions CRUD Exercise Overview – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Upload Transaction Receipts With Proper File Validation – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Open Transaction Receipt Files – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Import Transactions Exercise Solution Overview – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Profiling for N+1 Queries – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Reduce Memory Consumption & Speed Up Imports – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Toggle Transaction Review Status – Minor Refactoring – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Decorating Entity Manager to Avoid Inheritance – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Implement Route Model Binding With Slim – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Implement Authorization Using Doctrine Filters – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Set Up Email Verification For New Users – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Secure User Verification Using Signed URLs – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Send Two-Factor Auth Code Via Email – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Implement Two-Factor Authentication Via Email – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Implement Forgot Password Functionality – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Implementing Caching with Redis – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Implementing Rate Limiting – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Uploading Files to S3 Bucket – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Final Exercise – Building Back-End For Dashboard – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00
Deploy Expennies To Production Using Laravel Forge – Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8

00:00

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About Course

Course Content

Section-1

Full PHP 8 Overview

How To Install PHP & What Are Web Servers

Basic PHP Syntax

What Are Constants & Variable Variables In PHP

PHP Data Types – Typecasting Overview & How It Works

PHP Boolean Data Type

PHP Integer Data type

PHP Float Data Type

PHP String Data Type

PHP Null Data Type

PHP Array Data Type ( Indexed, Associative & Multi-Dimensional Arrays )

What Are Expressions In PHP & How They Are Evaluated

PHP Operators Part 1

PHP Operators Part 2

PHP Operator Precedence & Associativity

Control Structures in PHP – Conditional Statements – if/else

PHP Loops Tutorial – Break & Continue Statements

PHP Switch Statement – Switch vs if/else statement

PHP Match Expression – Match vs Switch

PHP Return, Declare & Tickable Statements

How To Include Files In PHP – Include and Require

How To Create Functions In PHP – Functions Tutorial

PHP Function Parameters – Named Arguments – Variadic Functions & Unpacking

PHP Variable Scopes – Static Variables

Variable, Anonymous, Callable, Closure & Arrow Functions In PHP

How To Work With Dates & Time Zones

How To Work With Arrays In PHP

How To Work With PHPs Configuration File – PHP.INI

PHP Error Handling & Error Handlers

Basic Apache Webserver Configuration & Virtual Hosts

Working With File System In PHP

Mini Projects

Mini Exercise Project Overview

Building Small Part Of The App With Procedural PHP

Section-2

Intro to Object Oriented Programming

PHP Docker Tutorial – Nginx – PHPFPM VS Apache

PHP Classes & Objects – Typed Properties – Constructors & Destructors

Constructor Property Promotion – Nullsafe Operator

PHP Namespace Tutorial

PHP Coding Standards, Autoloading (PSR-4) & Composer

Object Oriented PHP – Class Constants

Static Properties & Methods In Object Oriented PHP

PHP – Encapsulation & Abstraction

PHP – Inheritance Explained – Is Inheritance Good?

PHP Abstract Classes & Methods

PHP Interfaces & Polymorphism – Interfaces Explained

What Are PHP Magic Methods & How They Work

What Is Late Static Binding & How It Works In PHP

PHP Traits – How They Work & Drawbacks

PHP Anonymous Classes

PHP Variable Storage & Object Comparison – Zend Value (zval)

PHP DocBlock – Adding Comments to Classes & Methods

PHP – Object Cloning & Clone Magic Method

PHP Serialize Objects & Serialize Magic Methods

OOP Error Handling In PHP – Exceptions & Try Catch Finally Blocks

PHP – DateTime Object

PHP Iterators & Iterable Type – Iterate Over Objects

PHP Superglobals – Basic Routing Using The Server Info

Get & Post Superglobals In PHP – Forms – Post Routes

PHP Sessions & Cookies – Output Buffering – Headers Already Sent Warning

PHP File Uploads

PHP MVC Pattern – View Parameters Exploit

HTTP Headers In PHP – Request & Response Headers

Intro To MySQL For PHP

PHP PDO Tutorial Part 1 – Prepared Statements – SQL Injection

PHP PDO Tutorial Part 2 – Transactions – Env Variables & PHPDotEnv

PHP PDO Tutorial Part 3 – Models & Refactoring

Section 2 review & exercise project

Section-3

PHP OOP Tutorial Section 3 – Intro to Testing

PHP Unit Testing – PHPUnit Tutorial

PHPUnit Tutorial Part 2 – Mocking

Dependency Injection & DI Containers

Dependency Injection Container With & Without Reflection API Autowiring

DI Container With Interface Support

PHP Generators Explained