PHP Overview & Environment Setup
What PHP is and where it shines, PHP 8 engine basics, installing PHP with Composer, the request lifecycle, and writing your first HTTP endpoint.
PHP Tutorial
The classic web language: PHP 8 with Laravel/ThinkPHP still powers a huge share of sites.
All 4 tutorials
PHP 8 Modern Syntax & Features
Match expressions, named arguments, constructor property promotion, readonly properties, enums, fibers and the JIT — the syntax that modernized PHP.
Building Web Apps with Laravel
Laravel project structure, routing and controllers, Eloquent ORM, migrations and seeders, Blade templates, and the service container.
Deploying PHP: Nginx + PHP-FPM
How Nginx hands requests to PHP-FPM over FastCGI, tuning fpm pool workers, OPcache settings, and hardening a production deployment.