PHP Projects
Build three unique projects using PHP 7
Grasp all the concepts from basic to advanced
Develop a well-organized and maintained unit with functional testing
Learning
Quickly create isolated development virtual machines for your projects
Learn the new features of PHP 7 that make it well suited to quickly create web applications
Use PHP’s object oriented features to implement the Model-View-Controller pattern
Write tests in PHP Unit to create an automated test suite for your application
Use test driven development to help produce and refactor reusable code in a web application
Convert single server sites using technologies like file backed storage into highly scalable sites that can be ran on multiple servers
Use a micro framework called silex to quickly develop complex web applications
Use PHP to create real-time streaming functionality using the Comet model
About
The latest release of PHP has created a massive spark among developers, needless to say how popular a back-end scripting language it is. With this course, you'll get a deep insight into 3 cool projects that are built on PHP, and you'll learn different ways to improve your development.
Once you're familiar with setting up your environment and using the basic syntax of PHP, we'll begin with an entry-level project, where we'll show you how to build a URL shortener. You'll understand how to make effective use of MVC and how to connect up to the database. From there, we'll show you how to automate testing for our project and how to create functional tests. Next, we'll jump on to building an authentication platform, where you'll be introduced to Test Driven Development and CRUD, to create persistence storage. We'll show you the beauty of using the REST API and you'll also learn how to alleviate the load on the database. Finally, we'll build a social sharing platform, where we'll tighten the security and let users interact with each other in real-time.
With this course in your hands, you'll be confident of the practical use cases of PHP and will be ready to take your development skills to the next level.
Style and Approach
The video is filled with real world projects which are fun, exciting and practical. The codes are explained in detail and there are ready to use solutions for developers
Starting a PHP Project
The Course Overview
Creating the Development Environment
Setting Up PhpStorm
Setting Up NetBeans
Introduction to PHP
Handling Forms
Using PHP Sessions
Useful PHP Functions
Using PDO to Connect to a Database
Basic Object Oriented Features
Turning Long URLs into Short Ones
Composing a Project
Using MVC in the Right Way
Securing and Validating Our Data
Wiring Up to the Database
Redirecting Our Users
Automated Testing of Our Shortener
Installing PHPUnit
Understanding PHPUnit
Using Mock Objects in a Test
Testing Database Interaction
Functional Tests with Selenium
Creating an Authentication Platform
Introducing Test Driven Development with User Management
Implementing User Management
Managing Groups for the Users
DRYing Out Group and User CRUD
Giving Permissions to Our Groups
Bootstrapping Authentication to Our Management System
Converting Our User Management Application into a Scalable Service
Introducing REST
Creating a REST Interface for User Management
Moving from SQLite to MySQL
Moving Sessions from Files to the Database
Introducing Memcache for Caching and Session Management
Creating a Social Sharing Platform
Introducing Silex
Using OAuth to Login
Completing the Account Registration and Login Flow
Creating a Crawler Service
Allowing URLs to be Shared
Allowing for Crawling to Scale
Creating a Real-time Global Feed
Letting Users Interact with Each Other
Searching for Your Friends
Discovering New Content
User Following and Unfollowing
Creating a Real-Time Commenting Stream for URLs
Creating a Feed for Users
