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

# Adding a test for the homepage
In the first real test that we will now create, a `GET` request will be made to the homepage (`/`) and it will be verified if the server returns the right page. We need several things for that:

1. The PHP web server should already be running before we run the test. This will be taken care of by Panther, which is a PHPUnit extension that starts the PHP web server for us before it runs the first test.
2. We should be able to make that `GET` request to the server inside our test. This will also be provided by Panther. It offers a *client* that can navigate the website as if it were a real person (make requests, click on links, fill out forms, set cookies, etc.).
3. Finally, we should check if the page contains something that we expect to be there. This is provided by the Symfony DomCrawler component, which we can use to inspect the response and make an assertion about it.


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

Creating Our First Browser Test

Adding a test for the homepage