Hi, my name is David Rodriguez (AKA davidjguru) and I have created this project as a free training resource. After some time seeing materials on PHP, object oriented programming (OOP) and other things, I have encouraged to create my own training course, focusing on a didactic, entertaining and progressive. With the objective of practicing with specific LAMP environments, three layer architecture and some interesting frameworks.
The following repository and its contents are available under Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA.
Would be ideal to have a homogeneous environment to make this trip through PHP. I recommend a system to practice with the following characteristics: Operating System: Unix-based (Debian, Ubuntu ...) Webserver (for testing the scripts): Apache2 Database: MySQL Text editor: Vim, Atom, Gedit ... however you want And obviously everything related to the use of PHP: engine, libraries, connectors...
Well, fortunately there is a lot of information about this on the Internet. Here I will put some links that I find interesting to install and deploy the work environment.
DigitalOcean: How to install Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL stack on Ubuntu
Well, obviously there are many tutorials on programming in general and programming in PHP in particular, but I think my point of view, based on years of experience, learning, relearning, erasing the hard drive and guiding others on this path, Have led me to think that a more constructivist approach is necessary than behaviorist, very close to the immediate reality to model cases and better visualize the principles of programming. In addition, I believe that the process should be theoretical-practical, build bases and practice directly. That's where my approach is. You may not like it. You may not be interested. Who knows? I, from my position, I'm just playing.
In fact, this practical guide is based on the roadmap created by the user @kamranahmedse in Github (see here), especially in the way described for backend in the PHP7 branch. Everything is really oriented to learn to work with the stack PHP-MySQL-Node-Drupal and Git. It is based on my own experience and some ideas.
For more references, I recommend (much) read and practice with: