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

## Creating a new flash message script
Due to the nature of these messages "flashing" in front of the user and then disappearing, these messages are called *flash messages*.
It is a handy feature that we want to have on pretty much every page.
Wherever we add a flash message to the `$_SESSION` variable, and wherever the browser gets redirected to, we should always see the message on that page.
In [Project Structure](https://www.educative.io/courses/php-web-learn-php-without-framework/header-and-footer-snippets), we will solve this problem with templates.
For now, let's solve it with a slightly simpler trick.

First, we move the code for showing the flash message to a new script, called `_flash_message.php`, inside the `public/` directory:

# Creating a new flash message script
Due to the nature of these messages "flashing" in front of the user and then disappearing, these messages are called *flash messages*.
It is a handy feature that we want to have on pretty much every page.
Wherever we add a flash message to the `$_SESSION` variable, and wherever the browser gets redirected to, we should always see the message on that page.
In [Project Structure](https://www.educative.io/courses/php-web-learn-php-without-framework/header-and-footer-snippets), we will solve this problem with templates.
For now, let's solve it with a slightly simpler trick.

First, we move the code for showing the flash message to a new script, called `_flash_message.php`, inside the `public/` directory:

# Creating a new flash message script
Due to the nature of these messages "flashing" in front of the user and then disappearing, these messages are called *flash messages*.
It is a handy feature that we want to have on pretty much every page.
Wherever we add a flash message to the `＄_SESSION` variable, and wherever the browser gets redirected to, we should always see the message on that page.
In [Project Structure](https://www.educative.io/courses/php-web-learn-php-without-framework/header-and-footer-snippets), we will solve this problem with templates.
For now, let's solve it with a slightly simpler trick.

First, we move the code for showing the flash message to a new script, called `_flash_message.php`, inside the `public/` directory:

Let's look at how we can add a flash message on any page we want.

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

Using Flash Messages Everywhere

Creating a new flash message script