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

# Improving error handling 

As soon as we started using a PHP server to serve `.php` scripts in [Serving PHP Scripts](https://www.educative.io/courses/php-web-learn-php-without-framework/dynamic-resources), we had to worry about errors and showing them in the browser.
We mentioned back then that you need to make a distinction between the website as it is still running on your own computer and the website as it is running on a publicly accessible server. You may find that people talk about this distinction in different ways. 
* When you're working on your website on your own computer, you're running it "locally", or on your "development server". 
* When it runs on a publicly accessible server, it has been "deployed" to the "production server".

We use different words here because these are different contexts or environments, and there will be some differences in server configuration and behavior of the website depending on whether it runs locally or on the production server.
In this chapter, we will improve the way our website handles errors depending on the environment in which the website runs.


Let's create a file that produces an error to observe how our website handles 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

Producing an Error

Improving error handling