Learn PHP: The Complete Beginner's Guide (Full Course)

This course is a complete beginner's guide to learn the syntax, variables, functions, classes, PHP OOP & more. Created and based on the newest version, PHP 8! Start working towards your lamp stack setup today with this PHP tutorial for beginners.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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0:00 Intro to the course

Project setup
01:56 Install PHP with Homebrew
06:24 Install a PHP IDE editor
08:25 Start the built-in PHP web server

PHP tags
11:05 Create a "Hello world!" PHP script
13:09 Closing tags, semicolons & line breaks in PHP
16:12 Alternate method of calling PHP language constructs
17:23 Write short echo tags in PHP

Variables & Constants
19:19 Create & name variables in PHP
21:47 PHP data type assignments
25:18 Type casting in PHP
27:27 Type juggling (coercion) in PHP
30:18 Concatenating strings in PHP
33:30 String interpolation & escaping in PHP
35:12 Create a constant in PHP to store a fixed value
39:56 Create a Boolean variable in PHP

Conditionals
43:28 Conditionally execute PHP code with an if statement
45:20 Write multiple conditions to execute alternate PHP code
48:49 Alternate PHP conditional statements syntax for view files
52:28 Refactor PHP control structures into ternaries
56:06 Use a PHP switch statement for advanced conditional logic
1:00:22 Use a match statement for advanced PHP data checks

Arrays & Loops
1:03:33 Create a list using a PHP array
1:04:47 Display the contents of an array with a foreach loop
1:06:47 Use an array key to determine current iteration
1:08:17 Create a key:value store within a PHP array
1:10:40 Create a nested or multi-dimensional array in PHP
1:13:18 Get the count of a PHP array
1:15:54 Display the contents of an array with a for loop
1:19:35 Continue or break out of a PHP loop

Functions
1:21:55 Purpose of a function in PHP
1:23:33 Create a function in PHP
1:25:27 Function & global scope in PHP
1:27:24 Calling functions with return values in PHP
1:31:01 Passing arguments to PHP functions
1:33:32 Defining function return & arguments types in PHP
1:35:55 Type coercion & strict data types in PHP
1:40:25 Including or requiring files in PHP

Classes
1:44:46 Create & instantiate a class in PHP
1:47:03 Run code on PHP class creation with a constructor
1:49:30 Create class properties in previous versions of PHP
1:52:20 Create promoted properties in PHP 8 classes
1:54:37 Retrieve public class properties with PHP's arrow syntax
1:56:24 Understanding scope in PHP classes
2:00:28 Refactoring functions into PHP classes
2:03:50 Defining & using PHP namespaces
2:08:13 Replace PHP require statements with the Composer class autoloader

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