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

# Creating a bootstrap file
Before you can use `_flash_message.php`, the session data should be loaded into `$_SESSION`.
This means that the session needs to be started on every page as well.
We can't do this in `_header.php` itself because some pages have to use the session before they include `_header.php`.
We should consider starting the session as part of the startup phase of every page, something that has to be done before we do any other work.
In most other contexts, this is called a "bootstrap" phase, so let's introduce a file with the same name (`bootstrap.php`) that can be included at the top of every page script:

# Creating a bootstrap file
Before you can use `_flash_message.php`, the session data should be loaded into `＄_SESSION`.
This means that the session needs to be started on every page as well.
We can't do this in `_header.php` itself because some pages have to use the session before they include `_header.php`.
We should consider starting the session as part of the startup phase of every page, something that has to be done before we do any other work.
In most other contexts, this is called a "bootstrap" phase, so let's introduce a file with the same name (`bootstrap.php`) that can be included at the top of every page script:

Let's create a bootstrap file and include it at the top of every page script.

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

Bootstrapping

Creating a bootstrap file