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.

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# Remembering the user's name
To make the name available during the following requests, we should *set a cookie*.
This way we can tell the browser to remember the user's name and send it back to the server when the user makes the next request.
Let's see this in action first.
Add the following lines to the beginning of `name.php`:

<?php
if (isset($_POST['name'])) {
    setcookie('name', $_POST['name']);
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>


If `$_POST['name']` is defined, we know that the user submitted the form.
The name they submitted is in this variable: `$_POST['name']`.
We should now save this information in a cookie using the `setcookie()` [function](https://www.php.net/setcookie).
The name of the cookie doesn't have to be "name" too, but in this case, "name" seems to be an appropriate name (how confusing).



If `＄_POST['name']` is defined, we know that the user submitted the form.
The name they submitted is in this variable: `＄_POST['name']`.
We should now save this information in a cookie using the `setcookie()` [function](https://www.php.net/setcookie).
The name of the cookie doesn't have to be "name" too, but in this case, "name" seems to be an appropriate name (how confusing).


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

Setting a Cookie

Remembering the user’s name