PHP is one of the most popular server-side scripting languages for web development.
Like many C-derived scripting languages, PHP is easy to use, flexible, and scalable—three traits that have no doubt fueled its popularity. Interestingly, many PHP developers are self-taught, having learned the language by trial and error, from books, or by following tutorials online.
Understanding the value of a good tutorial, (I have been brushing up on my PHP in preparation for our April 8 webinar, wherein I'll build a shopping cart from scratch in an hour using PHP), I've listed five of the PHP tutorials that I have used so far this week. These are powerful PHP tutorials that may help you improve your PHP skills.
HTML-Friendly Template System Using PHP’s Output Buffering
This quick tutorial from Lost in the Woods blog at Theme Forest describes how to create a PHP template system that does not require separate PHP files for the header, body, or footer of a document. The tutorial includes all of the code and downloadable source files.
Create a Weblog in 20 Minutes
This video tutorial from the folks at CodeIgniter demonstrates how to bring up a full-function blog in just 20 minutes with the CodeIgniter framework. The video starts by creating the database and ends with a finished product.
The CakePHP Framework: Your First Bite
This is Fabio Cevasco's excellent introduction to the CakePHP Framework. Originally published in 2006, the tutorial is still an excellent resource.
Rotate Product Listings with PHP and jQuery
This is a very good tutorial from Jeff Adams that describes how to create a featured product section on an ecommerce site that rotates products using PHP, MySQL, and the popular jQuery Library.
Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP, Part 1
Written by Duane O'Brien, this intermediate level tutorial is published as part of the IBM's DeveloperWorks. It offers 36 pages of detailed baking instructions for rapidly deploying a CakePHP-based website.
