Gain insights into modern PHP by delving into POST requests, forms, sessions, and redirects to build a CRUD app with authentication, focusing on pure PHP without frameworks.

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PHP for the Web is a terrific introduction on how to use modern PHP effectively. While there is a lot of material out there about building applications with PHP, most of them focus on using a framework like Laravel or Symfony. By working with pure PHP, you will be able to focus on the core ideas instead of how a particular framework implements them.

In this course, you will learn how to use multiple web technologies like POST requests, forms, sessions, and redirects to build a CRUD application with an authentication system.

By the end, you will have all the ingredients at your disposal to go out and build stunning, dynamic PHP web applications.

PHP for the Web: Learn PHP without a Framework

# Styling pages
The styling of our pages is not aesthetically very appealing.
We can write our own stylesheet to fix this, or (as I like to do when there isn't a professional designer on my team) we can use Bootstrap.
Download the compiled CSS from their [website](https://getbootstrap.com/).
After extracting the downloaded archive file, look for a file called `bootstrap.min.css`.
Copy this file to `public/`.
Then modify `_header.php` so every page will include this `.css` file, and use it as a stylesheet:


Refresh the index page and it should already look somewhat better.
Now, let's improve the layout some more by wrapping the entire body inside a [container](https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/layout/overview/#containers) element.
We do this by starting a `div` in `_header.php`, just after `<body>`:

Let's add a little style to our webpage to make it more attractive.

Getting Started

Serving Resources

Serving PHP Scripts

Forms

Cookies

Sessions

Authentication

PHP Project Structure

CRUD Part 1: Create

CRUD Part 2: The Rest

File Uploads

Error Handling

Automated Testing

Conclusion

Adding a Stylesheet

Styling pages