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

## Project root should not be the document root
"Document root" means that any file inside this directory can be accessed from the browser.
It's normally not a good idea to let your project directory be the document root because there will always be files in your project that shouldn't be publicly accessible.

Let's create a new file called `secret.txt` in our project directory.
Copy the following text into the new `secret.txt` file:

# Project root should not be the document root
"Document root" means that any file inside this directory can be accessed from the browser.
It's normally not a good idea to let your project directory be the document root because there will always be files in your project that shouldn't be publicly accessible.

Let's create a new file called `secret.txt` in our project directory.
Copy the following text into the new `secret.txt` file:

Always make sure that the project root is not the document root.


Security Announcement

Always make sure that the project root is not the document root.

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

Security Announcement

Project root should not be the document root