What to learn first

in phpPresentation by Tessa Mero

Hello!I am Tessa Mero

What do I do?• College Instructor• Open Source Contributor• Developer• Mentor

You can find me at:@TessaMero

serverThe first step on learning PHP is setting up a

server

Set up your server - options

Set up a web server with apache.

✖ Hosting Server (apache)or✖ Local Development Server(WAMP, LAMP, XAMPP)…

✖ http://www.easyphp.org/

Create file called test.php

C:/wamp/wwwC:/xampp/htdocs

<?php phpinfo();

?>

How does the client/server/php work?

Your Computer

(Client)PHP

Interpretor

Web Server

Start writing phpThe second step to learning PHP is to

start writing it!

Displaying text

Commenting text

Creating variables

Variables and strings

Conditional statement – if / else

Basic syntax:If (condition) { //execute }

Conditional statement – switch

Comparison operators

Arrays, loops, & string handling

Php loopingPHP Looping (built in functions)✖ for✖ foreach✖ while✖ do while

For loops and while loop example

arrays

functions

Displays as:

Okay, that’s enough!

The next step of learning PHP is extending your knowledge!

Extend your learning✖ Object Oriented

Programming (OOP)

✖ Model View Controler (MVC) structure

✖ Learn PHP Frameworks (Laravel one of the easiest to learn)

✖ Be familiar with the php.ini file in your server

✖ Review lots of cool built in PHP functions

✖ Check out PHP date functions ( my favorite )

✖ Practicing Debugging and Look into using Error Reporting

Awesome resources✖ Read books✖ Watch and Read Tutorials✖ Learn how to use an Integrated

Development Environment (IDE) ex: PHPStorm

Interactive PHP Learning: http://www.learn-php.org/

Learn PHP in a FUN way!https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/php

Check out the PHP Documentation: http://php.net/docs.php

Reach beyond your goals

✖ Find a PHP Mentor (or be a mentor)https://phpmentoring.org/

✖ Contribute to the PHP community (or other PHP related projects, like Joomla!)

http://php.net/get-involved.php

Without contributors, none of this would exist!

You have come this far on learning. There’s no going back now. ;-)

Thanks!Any questions?

You can find me at:@tessamero

http://tessamero.com