learn-php-resources

Spreading the word about PHP educational resources!

"The elephant has entered the room." -Donovan

I'm accepting pull requests for this repo. Resources can be paid or free.

Please follow the styling conventions and include the following so I can accept your contribution:

• Indicate paid or free
• List course creator/author where applicable
• List the date the material was published or last updated, if possible
• If material is a series, list how many are in the series

Thank you to my GitHub Sponsors including @eddiejaoude & @keithballinger for making this repo possible.

Beginner

• Net Ninja's PHP (& MySQL) YouTube Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cUxeGkcC9gksOX3Kd9KPo-O68ncT05o

^{A free 42-video PHP (and MySQL) series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Mar 14, 2019.}

• Derek Banas's PHP YouTube Tutorial https://youtu.be/NihZYkNpslE

^{A free 1-video PHP Tutorial created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Video uploaded on Dec 9, 2019.}

• Dani Krossing's (formerly mmtuts) PHP YouTube Tutorial Series (Updated) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0eyrZgxdwhxhsuT_QAqfi-NNVAlV4WIP

^{A free 15-video PHP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Aug 26, 2020.}

• Learn PHP in One Day and Learn It Well. PHP for Beginners with Hands-on Project. (Learn Coding Fast with Hands-On Project Book 6) https://www.amazon.com/PHP-Beginners-Hands-Project-Project-ebook/dp/B08BK7PPT2

^{An easy to read book for absolute beginners to PHP who want to understand this language in a short amount of time. It starts from explaining what PHP is and goes into subjects like PHP data types, loops, etc. At the end, it guides you through a hands-on project by using everything that you have learned. Paid.}

• Educative - Learn PHP from Scratch (free course) https://www.educative.io/courses/learn-php-from-scratch

^{A free 71-lesson (video-free) PHP course.}

• Code With Dary's PHP For Beginners 2020 YouTube Tutorial Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFHz2csJcgk_fFEWydZJLiXpc9nB1qfpi

^{A free 63-video PHP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Jun 6, 2020.}

Intermediate

• PHP The Right Way https://phptherightway.com/

^{PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP popular coding standards, links to authoritative tutorials around the Web and what the contributors consider to be best practices at the present time. Free.}

• freeCodeCamp's Use PHP to Create an MVC YouTube Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERdu4k62wI

^{Get an understanding of how frameworks are made with this free 6-hour tutorial. The framework you build is not production-ready.}

• Net Ninja's PHP OOP (Object Oriented) YouTube Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cUxeGkcC9hNpT-yVAYxNWOmxjxL51Hy

^{A free 14-video PHP OOP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Oct 21, 2019.}

• Dani Krossing's (formerly mmtuts) PHP OOP (Object Oriented) YouTube Tutorial Series (Updated) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0eyrZgxdwhypQiZnYXM7z7-OTkcMgGPh

^{A free 18-video PHP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Dec 08, 2019.}

• Laracasts https://www.laracasts.com

^{A video-based paid-membership site (you can find plenty of free videos though) featuring dozens of PHP-related courses. Topics include PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony); testing (Cyrpress, PHPUnit); tooling (PHPStorm, Laravel Forge); and more. Most are intermediate to advanced level.}

• Thinkster 'realworld' app https://github.com/gothinkster?language=php

^{Build a Medium.com clone with Laravel, Slim, and/or CakePHP. Read more about the project here: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld}

• Code With Dary's Object-Oriented PHP For Beginners 2020 YouTube Tutorial Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFHz2csJcgk-7hgKrjUa_IP5YCLE4vJhV

^{A free 15-video PHP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Dec 7, 2020.}

Advanced