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.
About the Author
Michael Lively has worked in a variety of roles in the
software development industry for over 15 years, from developer to
development director. He has worked on a variety of different projects
and a variety of different technologies over that time, from small
home-grown sites serving a handful of regular users to large enterprise
platforms serving millions of consumers.
His current job is with Slickdeals.net, the largest and most trusted
deal sharing community and a routine presence in the top 100 sites in
the US. In addition to his professional work, he has been an active
member of the PHP open source community. Some of his contributions
include the database extension for PHPUnit and an alternative mocking
framework for PHP called Phake.
