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Any sources for modern PHP? I kinda started programming in PHP (completely self taught from internet as a kid in grade school) and my first internship was in PH

Any sources for modern PHP? I kinda started programming in PHP (completely self taught from internet as a kid in grade school) and my first internship was in PHP. When I started learning other languages, and technologies I basically realized PHP is nothing but an eternal hell. This was 10 years ago. To be very honest, PHP was so bad back then I hardly believe it's passable now. But I'd like to explore it a little, to see that I'm wrong and they somehow saved PHP. Is there a source that can give me what modern PHP has to offer and how it diverged from its (famously) "fractal of bad design' nature?

rocketpastsix 8y ago
Laracasts.com is a great way to get started. phptherightway.com is by far one of the best "one stop shop" for modern php development.
yhoiseth 8y ago
The Symfony docs are great. Also, see https://symfonycasts.com/ https://symfonycasts.com/.
thefork 8y ago
PHP: The Right Way (https://phptherightway.com/ https://phptherightway.com/) is a maintained resource which I frequently recommend. Additionally, JetBrains has good resources. The PHPStorm IDE is worth your time, as well as the blog PHP Annotated Monthly: https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/category/php-annotated-monthly/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/category/php-annotated-m...
- wyclif 8y ago
  PHP: The Right Way has helped me immensely. It is the best of "The Right Way" sites because it's maintained by people who know what they're talking about, it gives you the most important resources and documentation you should read, refer to, and understand.
lbriner 8y ago
To be honest, plenty of languages that allow bad behaviour could be classed as hell including C and C++ but done well, all of the main framework languages can also be nice. PHP has its origins in scripting rather than what traditional developers might consider a "real" language but as a C# developer, I often turn to PHP for my web "sites" as it is plays much nicer with front-end frameworks and using a framework like Yii2 does most of my heavy lifting.

rocketpastsix 8y ago

Laracasts.com is a great way to get started. phptherightway.com is by far one of the best "one stop shop" for modern php development.

yhoiseth 8y ago

The Symfony docs are great. Also, see https://symfonycasts.com/ https://symfonycasts.com/.

thefork 8y ago

PHP: The Right Way (https://phptherightway.com/ https://phptherightway.com/) is a maintained resource which I frequently recommend. Additionally, JetBrains has good resources. The PHPStorm IDE is worth your time, as well as the blog PHP Annotated Monthly: https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/category/php-annotated-monthly/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/category/php-annotated-m...

wyclif 8y ago
PHP: The Right Way has helped me immensely. It is the best of "The Right Way" sites because it's maintained by people who know what they're talking about, it gives you the most important resources and documentation you should read, refer to, and understand.

lbriner 8y ago

To be honest, plenty of languages that allow bad behaviour could be classed as hell including C and C++ but done well, all of the main framework languages can also be nice. PHP has its origins in scripting rather than what traditional developers might consider a "real" language but as a C# developer, I often turn to PHP for my web "sites" as it is plays much nicer with front-end frameworks and using a framework like Yii2 does most of my heavy lifting.