/PHP-Software-Engineer

Everything you should know as software engineer who works on the PHP stack

PHP Software Engineer roadmap

Everything you should know as software engineer who work on PHP stack

OOP

  • Class / Object
  • Interface and polymorphism
  • Abstraction
  • Inheritance
  • Trait

Clean Code

  • Principles

    • SOLID
    • DRY
    • KISS

  • Design patterns

    • Singltone
    • Factory
    • Strategy
    • Decorator
    • Adapter
    • Proxy
    • Chain of Responsibility
    • Specification
    • Template
    • Facade

  • PHP Coding style standards

    • PSR-2
    • PSR-12
    • PHP CS Fixer
    • Psalm
    • CircleCI

  • PSR

    • PSR-3 logging
    • PSR-4 autoloading
    • PSR-6 Caching interface
    • PSR-11 Container interface
    • PSR-14 Event Dispatcher

Test

  • What is software testing?
  • Which types of testing should be use?
  • Mock / Stub / Spy / Faker
  • TDD
  • Unit test / PHPUnit / Mockery

Laravel (Below concepts are mappable to any PHP framework you desired)

  • Model and Database

    • Relation ships 1:1 1:n n:m polymorphic
    • Mutator/Accessor
    • Events
    • Observer
    • Scope
    • Resources
    • Pagination
    • Seeder
    • Migrations
    • Query Builder
    • Cache

  • HTTP and Controllers

    • Routing
    • Controllers
    • Middleware
    • Requests and Validation
    • Responses
    • URL Generations
    • Authentication (Sanctum or Passport)
    • Authorization
    • Error Handlng
    • Restul API

  • Architecture concepts

    • Service container
    • Service provider
    • Facade

  • Test

    • Feature/HTTP Testing
    • Mocking dependencies [Queue/FS/Notifications/...]
    • Eloquent factories and Database testing

DB

  • RDBMS
    • Choose MySQL or Postgres
    • SQL: join sub-query aggregation
    • DDL
    • DML
    • DCL
    • TCL
    • Indexing / Foreign keys / Composite Keys / ...
    • Cuncurrency Control and Isolation levels
    • Pesimistic and Optimistic locking
  • Redis as In Memory db (types/threading system/...)
  • Learn a no-sql (ElasticSearch or MongoDB for the beginners)
  • Learn PDO and two different patterns of ORMs like Doctrine and Eloquent

Deployment Cencepts

  • Basic usage of Linux terminal
    • Package/Repository management
    • File system manipulations
    • Systemctl and Services
    • Install PHP and Composer
    • Basic Unix ACL
  • Docker
    • Image
    • Container
    • Basic storage and mounting
    • Basic usage of registry
  • Web server
    • Nginx basic stuff
    • HAProxy (Optional, not required)
  • Basic network concepts: Try khanacademy course

Advanced Concepts

  • 12 Factor of Software as service
  • Message queue and PubSub [Use redis for the sake of simplicity, Use RabbitMQ or Kafka for more advanced purposes]
  • Cache invalidation

Design and Architecture [Advanced topics]

Tooling

  • Git and Git Flow
  • Markdown
  • 10 fingers typing
  • Learn vim or nano