PHP
PHP, which is an acronym for 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor', is a scripting language primarily made to create robust web applications.
PHP, which is an acronym for 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor', is a scripting language primarily made to create robust web applications.
Beginner
15 hrs 31 mins
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Routinely in this course, we'll construct HTML markup to create various kinds of applications. Prior knowledge of HTML is thus a clear-cut requirement.
Although CSS isn't directly associated with PHP, we'll also routinely use it to style our HTML markup.
Although JavaScript isn't directly associated with PHP, we'll use it sometimes to interface with the server side asynchronously.
PHP, which stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is a powerful scripting language conceived of helping developers easily create the backend of a web application.
It is a server-side language that powers over 75% of websites out there whose backend programming language is known, according to this report on W3Techs.
PHP is a high-level interpreted language that is much like the C programming language in terms of syntax and semantics. A person familiar with C, or any C-style language will have no problem in understanding PHP. However, even without any prior knowledge of programming, PHP is a very good choice as the very first programming language for any beginnger, although a knowledge of HTML and JavaScript really helps in the longer run.
PHP has a large scope for jobs. There are many frameworks built around PHP to ease web development such as Symfony, Laravel, CodeIgniter. This is evident of the fact that knowing PHP improves your portfolio and increases your chances of landing at a good job. Some big names out there use PHP to power their web applications. To name a few, we have Facebook, Wordpress, MediaWiki and Drupal.
The best part about PHP is that it is extremely simple to learn, yet extremely powerful and robust. We can do anything in PHP that we can do in any other sophisticated language. You name it — file handling, image processing, PDF processing, multithreading — everything can be done in PHP.
By the end of this course, you will know:
E, how to round numbers, how to obtain random integers and much more.if, else, elseif, and switch, and then ending with iterative statements: for, while, and foreach.Not at all! In fact, one of the reasons why newbies, done with learning frontend technologies, are introduced to PHP as a server-side technology is its simplicity.
Getting started with PHP is really easy, and you can easily get comfortable with the basics of the language in almost a week. However, if we look at it holistically, PHP is extremely huge, with a countless amount of built-in features and functions. Learning all of this can take quite some time, obviously depending on your learning speed and prior programming experience. Expect somewhere between 2 - 4 months to reach your full potential working in PHP.
Theoretically, yes. But practically speaking, as PHP is most commonly used as a server-side scripting language, powering the backend of web applications, it's desirable that you are at least comfortable with common frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and a little bit knowledge of HTTP.
While it's true that many other technologies have sprung up over the years, competing with PHP, to aid in web development, the language still continues to host innovations and receive a huge support from its open-source community. Moreover, PHP still runs on a staggering number of servers around the globe, and if we add the power of PHP frameworks to the equation, then it's more than just clear that PHP is still a highly relevant language to learn today.
It's quite unfortunate that most, if not all, resources out there teaching PHP treat it only as a server-side technology, powered by a web server like Apache. In reality, PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that can be used to do a lot of different things, not just web development. For example, PHP is a really handy tool to build command-line programs. The aim of this course is to appreciate this aspect of PHP.
If you're having a hard time understanding a given concept in the course, feel free to reach out to me at bilal@codeguage.com, describing the issue you're facing. I'll try my level best to help you out.
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When you have a robust foundation, with the fundamentals crystal-clear, your mind will intrinsically get that ability to handle any kind and level of complexity.
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