PHP — resources
roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/php
Books
- PHP & MySQL: Server-side Web Development (Jon Duckett) — approachable, visual intro to PHP with databases for beginners.
- Modern PHP (Josh Lockhart) — covers PHP 7+ idioms, Composer, PSR standards, and good practices.
- PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice (M. Zandstra) — deep dive into OOP, design patterns, and professional tooling.
- Clean Code in PHP (Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois) — quality, static analysis, and maintainability for real projects.
Courses / practice
- Official PHP Manual — the canonical, exhaustive reference for every function and feature.
- PHP: The Right Way — community-maintained guide to modern best practices.
- Laracasts — high-quality video courses on PHP and its ecosystem.
- Composer docs — authoritative guide to dependency management and autoloading.