This detailed course is designed for those students who want to start their career as a PHP web developer. The aim of this course is to take you from scratch to strong understanding of PHP fundamentals. After completing this course, students will be ready for the next level of PHP which is Object Oriented Programming.

What is PHP?

PHP  is a recursive acronym which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. Originally PHP stood for Personal Home Page. It is open source (freely available) which was originally created in 1994 by Resmus Lerdorf. It is a general purpose programming language but widely used in web development. 

What is PHP Procedural?

PHP procedural or PHP fundamentals (two names of the same thing) is extremely important for one who want to start his/her career as a PHP back end developer. If you have command on PHP procedural, you will be able to learn rest of the stuff very easily. Whether you are writing a WordPress plugin or making an MVC application, the fundamentals go hand in hand. If you are not good at fundamentals, that means, you are not a good developer. 

Market value?

PHP has a high demand in web development. There are famous Content Management Systems written in PHP for example WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Open Cart, Zen Cart, Magento and many more. Famous Model View Controller frameworks are CodeIgniter, Laravel, Sympfony, CakePHP, Yii and Zend.