Название: PHP Crash Course: The Complete, Modern, Hands-On Guide (Final)
Автор: Matt Smith
Издательство: No Starch Press
Год: 2025
Страниц: 728
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 24.5 MB

Tired of cobbling together PHP solutions from scattered online tutorials? Frustrated by outdated PHP practices that leave your code vulnerable and hard to maintain? Whether you’re building your first dynamic website or modernizing legacy systems, PHP Crash Course gives you a complete, practical foundation for writing professional web applications.

PHP is one of the engines that drive the internet: it plays a role both in what the user sees on web pages and in what happens behind the scenes, such as processing form submissions, talking to other websites, and interacting with databases. The language was first released in 1995, but it wasn’t until the late 2000s, when my computing students encouraged me to introduce PHP into their web programming classes, that I began working with it in earnest. They wanted to improve their skill profiles for the job market, since they felt the internet was going to continue to grow in importance in the work of computing. Clearly, they were right.

PHP is currently in its eighth major version, so as well as being tried and tested, it’s faster and more secure than ever before. It’s a free, open source, and well-maintained language. While other popular web programming languages are available, about 70 percent of the web is run by PHP programs, including Etsy, Facebook (using its dialect of PHP, called Hack), Spotify, Wikipedia, and WordPress. PHP also has a relatively shallow learning curve. We’ll start off with just a few lines of code, and once you’re comfortable with the basics, we’ll move on to larger, more structured web application systems.

In this comprehensive, example-driven guide, you’ll learn how to:

Write clean, maintainable PHP code using modern language features and best practices
Build secure web applications that protect against common vulnerabilities
Master database integration using PDO and object-relational mappings (ORMs)
Implement professional features like shopping carts and user authentication
Structure applications using object-oriented programming and model-view-controller (MVC) patterns
Leverage powerful tools like Composer and Twig to accelerate development
Starting with PHP fundamentals, you’ll progress through six carefully crafted sections covering essential patterns, security best practices, database integration, and advanced concepts like object-oriented programming. Each chapter builds on real-world examples, giving you the skills to solve common development challenges.

Who This Book Is For:
PHP Crash Course is for anyone wanting to learn PHP programming in a practical, hands-on way, regardless of whether you have previous programming experience. Since most PHP programs are web applications, knowing about the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) languages used to represent the content and visual style of web pages might prove helpful, but you don’t need to know any web programming, such as jаvascript.

Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced developer looking to modernize your PHP skills, PHP Crash Course gives you everything you need to build professional, dynamic websites with confidence.

Includes setup instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and configuration details for Replit, the free online development environment.