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

What is the simplest way to serve a PHP-based website on your own computer, given that you have already installed PHP?
    

What is the simplest way to serve a PHP-based website on your own computer, given that you have already installed PHP?

Which command should you use to start serving resources (like HTML files, images, and PHP scripts) when using PHP’s built-in web server?

Which command should you use to start serving resources (like HTML files, images, and PHP scripts) when using PHP’s built-in web server?

By only referring to public resources in the `href` attribute of HTML `<a>` elements

By setting the web server's document root to a `public/` subdirectory and moving public resources to it

How can you make sure that only certain resources in your project are accessible in a browser?

How can you make sure that only certain resources in your project are accessible in a browser?

The status code of a response that has been handled successfully by the server is:

The status code of a response that has been handled successfully by the server is:

The status code of a response for a resource that doesn't exist on the server is `304`.

The status code of a response for a resource that doesn’t exist on the server is <code>304</code>.

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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

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