The Complete PHP 8 Masterclass – Go from Beginner to Artisan

The Complete PHP 8 Masterclass – Go from Beginner to Artisan, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 3.85, with 226 lectures, based on 108 reviews, and has 9044 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn PHP 7 and PHP 8 Build a WordPress plugin from scratch This course is ideal for individuals who are No Experience needed! – New to web development or programming in general (I assume you don't know anything at all about building websites or programming in general.) or Programmers knowledgeable in a different programming language It is particularly useful for No Experience needed! – New to web development or programming in general (I assume you don't know anything at all about building websites or programming in general.) or Programmers knowledgeable in a different programming language.

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Summary

Title: The Complete PHP 8 Masterclass – Go from Beginner to Artisan

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 3.85

Number of Lectures: 226

Number of Published Lectures: 225

Number of Curriculum Items: 226

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 225

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn PHP 7 and PHP 8
Build a WordPress plugin from scratch

Who Should Attend

No Experience needed! – New to web development or programming in general (I assume you don't know anything at all about building websites or programming in general.)
Programmers knowledgeable in a different programming language

Target Audiences

No Experience needed! – New to web development or programming in general (I assume you don't know anything at all about building websites or programming in general.)
Programmers knowledgeable in a different programming language

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UPDATED FOR PHP 8!

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This course is/will/has…

A living, breathing, course continuously updated whenever new significant versions of PHP get release, whether that’s PHP 7.0 to 7.1, PHP 7.x to PHP 8.x, or later, I’ll be sure you have the latest information as quickly as possible in new videos.
Teach you the difference in coding standards that makes the difference between a PHP artisan, and someone who’s self-taught and spends years in the dark. (HINT: SOLID, DRY, YAGNI! You’ll learn what they mean and why they’re important, and also why your code should comment itself.)
Has several micro-courses to help you grow in ways that matter, potentially putting you six-figures or more in profit!

Bread and Butter (Basics and Advanced PHP Concepts)

What about the main course? (Hint: it’s not a dinner roll! 🙂 ) Here’s what you can expect.

Getting started with Eclipse PDT (free)
Variables (including global variables)
Data types (arrays, strings, int, float, etc.)
Superglobals ($_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, $_FILES, $_REQUEST) – The general I/O for your PHP application
Flow control (if/elseif/else, for, foreach, while, do/while, switch) – Control what happens in your application
Ternary statements
Error handling with try/catch/finally
Functions (including anonymous/lambda functions)
Type Hinting (classes, array, scalar types [New in PHP 7!])
OOP (Classes, methods, properties [static and dynamic], scope, and more!)
Generators
GuzzleHTTP for API interaction

Course Project

During the course, we will learn how to build a basic online freelance marketplace in Laravel 7. Rick spent 2 years of his life building a very elaborate online freelance marketplace, and he’ll distill his knowledge down into the basics so we can fit it into a course project. You’ll also hear about numerous other options you could use to expand the marketplace into your own awesome creation, while reinforcing your knowledge in PHP.

What’s an online freelance marketplace? Simple. It’s a place where vendors and shoppers meet each other and transact service-based business. An example of some of them are Upwork, Freelancer, and Fiverr.

The project includes the following:

Laravel 7 training
Git using GitHub
Authentication system, and a deep dive into how that works behind the scenes.
Create and manage a project screens
Project search and Laravel Scout with Algolia’s free tier
CI/CD with Travis CI

Micro-courses:

PHP is one of the most prevalent languages on the internet, but HTML and JavaScript are staples of any quality frontend. Furthermore, without a solid income from your investment, you’d only be spending money in hopes of getting your next job. Don’t worry! I’ll clue you in on how I started on government welfare, but went on to make six figures on Upwork, and how you can follow in my footsteps. (Please note that I cannot guarantee that you will make six figures, or even a single penny by using what you learn, but if you give it your all, I’d be shocked if you weren’t successful at making some nice money.)

My secrets as a six-figure Upwork freelancer – PHP has the uncanny double standard of being EXTREMELY popular on online freelance marketplaces, such as Upwork, but almost non-existent in traditional jobs. If you’re looking to work for yourself, learn PHP and go freelance. If you’d prefer to work for the man, try Node.js, Python, Java, or another language popular for that career path. I’ll show you how to succeed as a six-figure freelancer on Upwork.
You’ll also learn the various caveats of each of the major online freelance marketplaces, such as Fiverr, Freelancer.com, and Upwork, so that you can make your own decisions on where to start your journey as a freelancer.
SOLID, DRY, YAGNI, and other tips that’ll make you a PHP artisan instead of just someone writing code.
S — Single responsibility principle
O — Open/closed principle
L — Liskov substitution principle
I — Interface segregation principle
D — Dependency inversion principle
DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself!
YAGNI – You Aren’t Gonna Need It!
WordPress and WooCommerce – WordPress powers 35% of the entire internet at the time of writing this in February 2020. Just a couple months ago, it powered 34%! That’s a massive market share, and it’s no surprise that Upwork is filled to the brim with WordPress and WooCommerce projects. During this course we’ll build the following WordPress plugins from scratch, while keeping our codebase FAR cleaner than most WordPress plugins, or even WordPress core itself.
Custom WooCommerce Thank-You Page – Create a custom thank-you page for your WooCommerce installation on WordPress.
Featured Products Widget – Build a widget to display an admin-defined list of posts on your sidebar, footer, or anywhere else your theme supports widgets!
Laravel 7 – Laravel is the most popular PHP framework at the time of writing, and we’ll learn how to build software in laravel. You’ll learn the components that make up the framework, such as model, views, controller, the Artisan CLI and more. You’ll also get hands-on training in Laravel Spark and Laravel Nova not taught in other courses in PHP and Laravel!
Vue.js – Learn the very basics of using Vue.js to build your frontend. As we’ll be using Laravel, Vue.js will come up somewhat often when working with their products, and you should be able to hit the ground running with Vue.js.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Platform Migration

Lecture 2: Course Introduction

Lecture 3: A Few Things to Remember

Lecture 4: How to Get Help

Lecture 5: Finding the Resources

Chapter 2: Install and Setup

Lecture 1: How to Use This Section

Lecture 2: PHP Versioning

Lecture 3: [Win/Mac] Installing Dev Environment on Windows and Mac

Lecture 4: [Win/Mac] MySQL Root Password (Option 1)

Lecture 5: [Win/Mac] MySQL Root Password and Workbench (Option 2)

Lecture 6: [Win/Mac/Linux] MySQL Root Password Grant

Lecture 7: [Linux] Installing Dev Environment on Linux

Lecture 8: Configuring Apache with a Local Test Website

Lecture 9: Installing Eclipse PDT

Lecture 10: Coding Standards

Lecture 11: Printing Text in the Console

Chapter 3: BOOT CAMP – The Basics

Lecture 1: Hello World

Lecture 2: Variables and Data Types

Lecture 3: Code Completion in Eclipse

Lecture 4: Four Types of Strings in PHP

Lecture 5: String Interpolation

Lecture 6: Tabs, New Lines, and the Escape Character

Lecture 7: Indexing Into Strings

Lecture 8: Operators

Lecture 9: PHP is Loosely Typed

Lecture 10: Not Defining a Value Versus Null

Lecture 11: String Concatenation

Lecture 12: Mid-Section Challenge

Lecture 13: Mid-Section Challenge Solution

Lecture 14: Two Types of Arrays

Lecture 15: The Difference Between echo, print_r, and var_dump

Lecture 16: in_array, array_key_exists empty, isset, array_slice

Lecture 17: Section Challenge: Copy Words in a Sentence into an Array

Lecture 18: Gotcha with isset and empty

Lecture 19: Solution: Word Array

Chapter 4: BOOT CAMP – It's Browser Time!

Lecture 1: Running Hello World in Your Browser

Lecture 2: True, False, Truthy, Falsey

Lecture 3: Control Structures with if / elseif / else

Lecture 4: Switch

Lecture 5: Ternary Statements

Lecture 6: Handling Form Submissions – Introduction to Superglobals

Lecture 7: $_REQUEST, $_GET, and $_POST Superglobals

Lecture 8: Mid-Section Challenge

Lecture 9: Solution to Mid-Section Challenge

Lecture 10: $_SERVER

Lecture 11: Handling a File Upload

Lecture 12: Number Guessing Game and rand

Lecture 13: Security Concerns with $_GET

Lecture 14: Using $_COOKIE to Store the Number

Lecture 15: Security Concerns with Cookies

Lecture 16: Using Sessions to Make It More Challenging

Lecture 17: Section Challenge: Submit a Form – Set Cookie When Valid

Lecture 18: Solution: Server Side Validation

Chapter 5: BOOT CAMP – Loops

Lecture 1: For loop

Lecture 2: Printing All Values in an Array

Lecture 3: I++, J++… C++?

Lecture 4: Nested For Loop

Lecture 5: Printing Times Tables

Lecture 6: Mid-Section Challenge

Lecture 7: Continue and Break

Lecture 8: The Foreach Loop

Lecture 9: The While Loop

Lecture 10: The Do / While Loop

Lecture 11: Augmented Assignment

Chapter 6: BOOT CAMP – Functions and File I/O

Lecture 1: Section Challenge: Implement Binary Search

Lecture 2: Solution: Implement Binary Search

Lecture 3: Writing data to a file using file_put_contents

Lecture 4: Reading the Contents of a File with file_get_contents

Lecture 5: The eval() Function is EVIL!

Lecture 6: Serialize / Unserialize (Hint: Also Evil!)

Lecture 7: Writing Functions in PHP

Lecture 8: Mid-Section Challenge

Lecture 9: Solution to Mid-Section Challenge

Lecture 10: Anonymous / Lambda Functions

Lecture 11: Recursion

Lecture 12: Mutual Recursion

Lecture 13: Generators

Lecture 14: Gathering Input From the Console

Lecture 15: Creating a Phar (PHP Archive) File

Lecture 16: Section Challenge: Implement a Recursive Factorial Function

Lecture 17: Solution: Recursive Factorial

Chapter 7: BOOT CAMP – OOP and 3rd-Party Software

Lecture 1: Classes in PHP

Lecture 2: Static Methods

Lecture 3: Static Properties

Lecture 4: The __construct Method

Lecture 5: Dynamic Methods

Lecture 6: Dynamic Properties and the $this keyword

Lecture 7: Including a file Versus Require

Lecture 8: Namespaces

Lecture 9: spl_autoload_register

Lecture 10: Interfaces

Lecture 11: Abstract Classes and Extending a Class (Inheritance)

Lecture 12: Traits

Instructors

Rick Mac Gillis
Software Engineer since 2003
Red Scale Corporation
Premium Training Provider

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 6 votes
2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 16 votes
4 stars: 29 votes
5 stars: 54 votes

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