PHP is an unfairly underrated language, but here at DEV, we have yet some great resources about it.
It's not so easy to find them out, because PHP don't have a big audience and related posts get drown among many other (JS) posts, but nevertheless, some of them reached a pretty high quality.

🏗 Bootstrapping

It can be difficult for newcomers to know where to start a new PHP project. If you want to give a try to the Slim micro-framework, have a loot at @charliedevelops's following post:

Getting started with Slim PHP framework by building a very simple MVC/OOP app

charliedeveloper ・ Jun 29 '18

#webdev #beginners #php #tutorial

✅ Clean code

A great post about some clean code rules in PHP, with great screenshots:

A month of clean code

Jason McCreary ・ Nov 10 '17

#programming #practices #refactoring #php

Some other clean code rules, applied to a concrete example:

Writing Beautiful Code

Andrew Davis ・ Sep 24 '18

#webdev #productivity #php

A very detailed article about clean architecture and design patterns:

Cleaning up your codebase with a clean architecture

Barry O Sullivan ・ May 15 '17

#cleancode #layeredarchitecture #php #design

🚥 Quality

I wrote the following post to show dev how to check the quality of PHP code by using 3 static analysis tools (phpcs, phpmd & php-cs-fixer):

🚥 How to Write Clean Code in PHP 🐘

Boris Jamot ✊ / ・ Aug 31 '18

#cleancode #tools #codingstyle #php

The next article shows how to automate everything with the editor, composer, git & the CI/CD pipeline:

🚥 How to Automate Code Quality Checks in your Workflow? ⚙

Boris Jamot ✊ / ・ Sep 10 '18

#git #automation #cleancode #bash

☑️ Tests

How to design your code to be able to unit test everything:

🐘 Unit Tests in PHP

Boris Jamot ✊ / ・ Jan 15 '19

#php #testing #showdev #codequality

Not so specific to PHP, but still interesting:

Fake it by stubbing the mock, dummy

Jason McCreary ・ Nov 14 '17

#testing #php

Because unit tests are never enough, we need acceptance tests. Here is a simple way to test an HTTP API as a black box:

Acceptance testing your PHP app with ease

Barry O Sullivan ・ Apr 23 '18

#tdd #php #acceptancetests

🔒 Security

It's well known that misusing PHP can lead to serious security breaches. The following resources will be a great introduction for people who care about security (who doesn't?):

PHP Security: Introduction

dewbiez ・ Sep 20 '18

#php #security

5 rules to secure your PHP application:

Security Tips for a PHP Application

Andrew Davis ・ Aug 7 '18

#php #security

🛠 Tooling

The best tool in PHP world is unquestionably composer. Number of its features are often unknown. It's not only a dependency manager. Let's have a look at its possibilities:

What, why and how of PHP Composer

Gaurav Makhecha ・ Jun 14 '18

#php #laravel #composer

@david_j_eddy introduces 5 essential tools every PHP developers should use:

5 PHP Tools to make your life more enjoyable.

David J Eddy ・ Aug 2 '18

#php #tool #productivity #codequality

If you ever tasted the pleasure of debugging, then you know you can't do without. Thanks to @brpaz, you'll now know how make all the things work together:

Docker, PHPStorm and Xdebug, The definitive guide

Bruno Paz ・ Sep 6 '18

#docker #xdebug #phpstorm #php

This last tool has been developed by the author of the article, who can thus help you get started. It's a tool to quickly bootstrap a PHP project from scratch:

PHP project scaffolding (kickstarting) tool

Jitendra ・ Aug 15 '18

#showdev #php #productivity #automation

🚀 Other

Because we all know that reading books help us understanding the things more deeply, here is a list of suggested books about PHP:

My Favorite PHP books

Bruno Paz ・ Sep 23 '18

#php #books

The PHP edition of the well known imposter syndrome:

Imposter Syndrome: PHP Edition

Andrew Davis ・ Nov 28 '17

#php #impostersyndrome #webdev #career

Because such articles are very, very rare, and because I already found myself lost in the face of the lack of resources when « cloudifying » a PHP app, here is a great article about PHP with containers:

Isolating PHP with Docker Containers

John McCracken ・ Nov 1 '18

#docker #php #tutorial

🌠 People to follow

@restoreddev's posts are always well written, and most of them are about PHP. As a PHP dev, you can't definitely not follow him.

Andrew DavisFollow

PHP and JavaScript web chef with a little Go and Swift on the side.

@gonedark's posts are mostly about clean code, PHP and git. Some of them are among the most popular on DEV.

Jason McCrearyFollow

I build things with my hands. The human behind Shift - https://laravelshift.com, master of Git - https://gettinggit.com, and author of "BaseCode" - https://basecodefieldguide.com

Two of the above articles were written by @brpaz, and some others worth the read.

Bruno PazFollow

Web Engineer. Working mostly with PHP, Symfony and Golang. Entusiast about Engineering Best Practices, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Sports and FC Porto fan!

If you think a PHP post is missing in the list, don't hesitate to mention it in the comments !

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