PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
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PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
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Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#2Looks like good material and the formatting is nice so kudos.
Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#3Very well done, there’s a lot to help a novice PHP developer. I feel like the next chapters I’d love to see would take those concepts and apply them to building something. Everything so far unless I missed it is focused on the backend but it’s important to show that it’s also possible to use it as a front end and what the modern approaches to doing that are.
Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#4Nice job and well written. A nice addition would be how to use pdo. I'm appalled by the number of ressources I see online which are using the old mysql api.
Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#5Nice job and well written. A nice addition would be how to use pdo. I'm appalled by the number of ressources I see online which are using the old mysql api.
This is a very good resource for PDO: https://phpdelusions.net/pdo
Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#6Looks great! Perhaps, making it possible to turn pages with the arrow keys on the keyboard would make it a bit easier to navigate.
Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#7Good job ! Please add something about namespaces.
Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#8Nice job and well written. A nice addition would be how to use pdo. I'm appalled by the number of ressources I see online which are using the old mysql api.
> I'm appalled by the number of ressources I see online which are using the old mysql api
Recently authored articles? We have an internet filled with 20 years of PHP tutorials, and unfortunately for beginners there's not an easy way to evaluate if something utilizes modern best practices or is an Experts Exchange post from 2001.
Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#9Looks great! Perhaps, making it possible to turn pages with the arrow keys on the keyboard would make it a bit easier to navigate.
Yeah, that was my first reaction as well! With the chapters being this short (which itself is great) it would be really nice to be able to use the arrow keys.
Re: PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
#10Why not teach it better?
https://glot.io/snippets/f8g0wlar0d
No wonder PHP developers have a bad reputation.