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  PHP Guide




#### A guide covering PHP including the applications and tools that will make you a better and more efficient PHP developer.



**Note: You can easily convert this markdown file to a PDF in [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/) using this handy extension [Markdown PDF](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzane.markdown-pdf).**





 

  





# PHP Learning Resources



[PHP](https://www.php.net/) is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.



[PHP 8](https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php)



[What's New in PHP 8 - Auth0](https://auth0.com/blog/whats-new-php-8/)



[PHP Manual](https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php)



[MIT's PHP Code Style Guide](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/shared/content/PHP_Code_Style_Guide.php)



[PHP Style Guide](https://gist.github.com/ryansechrest/8138375)



[PHP tutorial by W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/php/)



[PHP MySQL & CodeIgniter Course on Udemy](https://www.udemy.com/course/php-mysql-codeigniter-complete-guide/)



# PHP Tools and Frameworks



[Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.



[Code Server](https://coder.com/) is a tool that allows you to run [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) on any machine anywhere and access it in the browser.



[PhpStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/) is a professional PHP IDE developed by Jet Brains for working with Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Laminas, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, Yii, and other frameworks.



[Laravel](https://laravel.com/) is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable and creative experience to be truly fulfilling.



[PHP Intelephense](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client) is a high performance PHP language server packed full of essential features for productive PHP development in Visual Studio Code.



[PHP Tools for Visual Studio/VS Code](https://www.devsense.com/en) is a an extension that turn Visual Studio into a powerful PHP development environment.



[Symfony](https://symfony.com/) is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Symfony is used by thousands of web applications (including BlaBlaCar.com and Spotify.com) and most of the [popular PHP projects](https://symfony.com/projects) (including Drupal and Magento).



[CakePHP](https://cakephp.org) is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like Associative Data Mapping, Front Controller, and MVC. CakePHP's main goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.



[Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) is a tools helps you declare, manage, and install dependencies of PHP projects.



[Guzzle](https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle) is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.



[DesignPatternsPHP](https://designpatternsphp.readthedocs.io/) is a collection of known design patterns and some sample code how to implement them in PHP 7.4. Every pattern has a small list of examples.



[CodeIgniter](https://codeigniter.com/) is an Application Development Framework for people who build web sites using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries. CodeIgniter lets you creatively focus on your project by minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task.



[HHVM](https://hhvm.com/) is an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in [Hack](https://hacklang.org/). HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining amazing development flexibility. HHVM should be used together with a webserver like the built in, easy to deploy [Proxygen](https://docs.hhvm.com/hhvm/basic-usage/proxygen), or a [FastCGI-based](https://docs.hhvm.com/hhvm/advanced-usage/fastCGI) webserver on top of nginx or Apache.



[PHPUnit](https://phpunit.de/) is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.



[Phalcon](https://phalcon.io/) is an open source web framework delivered as a C extension for the PHP language providing high performance and lower resource consumption.



[Swoole](https://www.swoole.co.uk/) is an event-driven asynchronous & coroutine-based concurrency networking communication engine with high performance written in C and C++ for PHP.



[Matomo](https://matomo.org/) is a full-featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five-minute installation process, you will be given a JavaScript code. Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track and access your analytics reports in real-time.



[Grav](https://getgrav.org/) is a Fast, Simple, and Flexible, file-based Web-platform. There is Zero installation required. Just extract the ZIP archive, and you are already up and running. It follows similar principles to other flat-file CMS platforms, but has a different design philosophy than most. Grav comes with a powerful Package Management System to allow for simple installation and upgrading of plugins and themes, as well as simple updating of Grav itself.



[Whoops](https://filp.github.io/whoops/) is an error handler framework for PHP. Out-of-the-box, it provides a pretty error interface that helps you debug your web projects, but at heart it's a simple yet powerful stacked error handling system.



[Slim](https://www.slimframework.com/) is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs. 



## Contribute



- [x] If would you like to contribute to this guide simply make a [Pull Request](https://github.com/mikeroyal/PHP-Guide/pulls).



## License



Distributed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Public License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).