The best way to learn is by building a project. We build Twitter from scratch, and over the course of 3 hours, we go through the basics of PHP. PHP is built for servers and backends, so we connect a MySQL database. We also build a complete frontend, using clean HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Start from nothing, and learn coding, including proper coding patterns and habbits.
PHP 7 Tutorial: Build Any Web App - Web Development for Beginners. 2023 Course.
Need help to install PHP & MySQL?
On Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw_e0loFezU
On Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsKKcdnIPV0
Other full courses:
HTML: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFizDPrrVI
CSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epVdyPPlQKo
MySQL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9aNAh4vawc
Chapters:
00:00:00 Welcome
00:01:48 Installation
00:03:46 Start a PHP server
00:04:53 Browsers, Clients & Servers
00:11:30 Enable Error Handling
00:13:50 Variables & Strings
00:15:40 HTML Forms as input
00:22:30 Arrays
00:26:00 If-then-else
00:28:22 Functions
00:41:52 Sessions
00:51:09 Why we use databases
00:52:55 Create and connect to a database
01:07:00 Require & Include
01:22:15 Register new user
01:38:30 Login
01:45:34 Password Hashing
01:51:51 MVC Template
01:55:22 The MVC Design Pattern
02:09:30 Building Tweets
02:34:07 Reacting to Tweets
02:56:28 PHP & AJAX
03:07:21 PHP errors in the JavaScript console
03:09:00 API's and separating frontend from backend
03:16:00 Epilogue
