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by xfour 2718 days ago
Very well done, there’s a lot to help a novice PHP developer. I feel like the next chapters I’d love to see would take those concepts and apply them to building something. Everything so far unless I missed it is focused on the backend but it’s important to show that it’s also possible to use it as a front end and what the modern approaches to doing that are.
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Thats a good point. PHP is a general language, but used almost exclusively for web development and most websites now use a framework (symfony/laravel......) etc.

I'm learning symfony framework after my micro framework of choice lost its support (Silex..).

The symfony documents are ok, but I wouldn't want to give them to someone starting out. (though looking again, they seem better..) https://symfony.com/doc/current/page_creation.html

Someone showed me the free video cast howto build a basic symfony site. I though it was pretty good. Like many of these, the basic tutorials are free, but its a subscription site.

https://symfonycasts.com/tracks/symfony

I plan to add a new section for learning how to use the concepts to build a basic website. I wanted to start with backend foundation first.