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A New, Interactive Approach to Learning PHP

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The PHP Workshop

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This is the repository for The PHP Workshop, published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the course from start to finish.

Requirements and Setup

The PHP Workshop

To get started with the project files, you'll need to:

  1. Install PHP on Windows
  2. MySQL Workbench on Windows
  3. Installing Composer on Ubuntu/Mac, Windows

About The PHP Workshop

You already know you want to learn PHP 7, and a smarter way to learn PHP development is to learn by doing. The PHP Workshop focuses on building up your practical skills so that you can develop cutting-edge, high-performance web applications. It’s ideal if you’re looking to work with an existing application, or even develop your own side project with a PHP framework like Laravel. You'll learn from real examples that lead to real results.

What you will learn

  • Get to grips with the fundamental concepts of the PHP language
  • Discover how you can work with the MySQL database to build dynamic web applications
  • Learn how to compile logical errors and handle exceptions in your programs
  • Use PHPUnit to ensure a bug-free development process
  • Learn how to use Composer – PHP's package manager – to include third-party packages in your applications
  • Explore what are web services and how to connect them to your applications with Guzzle

Related Workshops

If you've found this repository useful, you might want to check out some of our other workshop titles: