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.
π 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:
β Clean code
A great post about some clean code rules in PHP, with great screenshots:
Some other clean code rules, applied to a concrete example:
A very detailed article about clean architecture and design patterns:
π₯ 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):
The next article shows how to automate everything with the editor, composer, git & the CI/CD pipeline:
βοΈ Tests
How to design your code to be able to unit test everything:
Not so specific to PHP, but still interesting:
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 γ» Apr 23 '18
π 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?):
5 rules to secure your PHP application:
π 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:
@david_j_eddy introduces 5 essential tools every PHP developers should use:
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:
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:
π Other
Because we all know that reading books help us understanding the things more deeply, here is a list of suggested books about PHP:
The PHP edition of the well known imposter syndrome:
Because such articles are very, very rare, and because I already found myself lost in the face of the lack of resources when Β« cloudifying Β» a PHP app, here is a great article about PHP with containers:
π 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.
@gonedark's posts are mostly about clean code, PHP and git. Some of them are among the most popular on DEV.
Two of the above articles were written by @brpaz, and some others worth the read.
If you think a PHP post is missing in the list, don't hesitate to mention it in the comments !
Thanks for reading !
Top comments (26)
Thank you putting this together. I would like to also throw in a few more resources:
You're right, but I wanted to put the dev.to's posts in the light.
Thanks anyway !
I created a collection of resources related to object-oriented programming and PHP. There are a lot of thing about OOP, OOD, refactoring, design patterns and architecture! I glad you like it! ;)
github.com/marcelgsantos/learning-...
It's an awesome collection you built here!
Congratulations for that great job!
He surely talk on DEV.to as most people do js here
This is fabulous! I am definitely a JS person, but I've been alongside PHP devs for a long time and it's severely underrated considering how much of the internet it runs.
The number of PHP posts is far, far behind JS posts, but what I feel (without being sure because there is no counter for that) is that people here are (quite) not interested by PHP.
Very few posts get more than 100 likes.
Checks out β
Thank you very much for sharing.
Indeed a great list to keep in check.
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Great list! Don't forget phptherightway.com/ though!
Ah @david_j_eddy beat me to the punch!
This post is awesome! Thanks a lot.
I'm happy you like it, thanks !
Thank you!
I have to learn PHP. This will be helpful.
Thanks you :)