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Importance of PHP Self Learning & Exploring PHP Resources

PHP is an ideal language for beginners. It is easy to learn and it opens a door for the career related to web development in information technology.

Importance of PHP Training Classes

There are many people who choose PHP and pursue training for jobs related to website development. Training classes help students in many ways. They provide a strong base for the students or professionals. You get an idea about the technology, workflow and some real life examples about the technology.

Training classes cover basic and important topics, but, it is almost impossible to cover them all in limited duration training classes. Like any other popular programming language, PHP has a wide range of tools, functionality and resources. Again, a training is never sufficient to cover all those aspects of PHP.

Why?
If we talk just about the built-in PHP functions, there are more than 9000 PHP functions listed on the official PHP site. If training classes, will focus on all of those functions, it would take years to complete your training course. Besides, functions there are many more concepts, statements, extensions in PHP technology.

Most of the time, you need not to learn all those functions to start PHP job or project. It is not mandatory to cover all PHP advanced concepts to crack interviews. But the more you can learn, it would be easy to get hired. We will see the importance of self learning in PHP technology, today.

Importance of PHP Self Learning

When you go to interview or bid for PHP project, you can see many people like you in the same queue. You may find plenty of PHP developers around you on job walk-ins. What may take you ahead? How you can prove yourself better in any job interview?

There could only one answer to this question: By learning more about the technology. If you really want to master technology, you should start learning by yourself as much as possible.

If there are plenty of things to learn in PHP, there are plenty of resources that help you learn them as well. There are thousands of exercises, tutorials and solutions available online. You should only know how to find them and how to use them.

Feel free and search anything about the PHP. Internet will provide you easy and latest resources about PHP. We are listing some the ideas of self learning. These resources are listed especially for beginners and freshers.

Exploring PHP Resources

You can start with a simple term “PHP Tutorials”. PHP tutorials will provide you step by step chapters that start from the basics. Most of the time you will find same topics that a general training class provides. Still, they help you in three ways:

  • It revises your PHP knowledge that you have already learned
  • These tutorials may have some examples better explained than your training classes
  • You may definitely find few extra topics than your training course syllabus

PHP tutorial websites

PHP Exercises & Practice website

PHP snippets website

You may also find a lot of php articles on different websites. They covers advanced concepts and latest technologies related to php. But you may find some interesting articles for beginners. Keep yourself updated with the latest news and articles.

PHP Articles website

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” ~ Thomas Huxley

Now, you have learnt about the importance of self learning. Use above links to explore more. Do not forget to bookmark this page, as we will keep updating them. All the best.

List of useful Web Design and Development Blogs

It is good to enhance your technical skills daily. There are number of blogs available to help you there. We have shortlisted few top and best web design and development blogs. These blogs and sites have latest tutorials, articles and tips about the various tools and technologies.

Tuts+

About Tuts+ : Tuts+ helps you learn creative skills and shape the life you want.
As part of Envato’s creative ecosystem, Tuts+ contributes to our mission of “helping people learn and earn online”. We love to see how people transform themselves and their lives by learning creative skills and earning money selling their creations or services to the world.

Whether your day job is creative or not, life is better when you learn and apply creative skills regularly. To do this is satisfying in its own right and a practical investment in your future.

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine features articles on client-side and server-side programming languages, tools, frameworks and libraries, as well as back-end issues. Experts and professionals reveal their coding tips, tricks and ideas.

There are number of articles on general design principles, Web design, typography, user interface design and related topics. It also presents design showcases and practical pieces on the business side of design.

Web Reference

Web Development and Design Tutorials, Tips and Reviews. One of the oldest (created in 1995) and most respected Web development sites, WebReference.com is all about the Web and Webmastery. From browsing to authoring, HTML to advanced site design, we’ll keep you informed.

1st webdesigner

All about Designs, WordPress and Business. Ultimate resources for Freelancer Web Designers. Web Design and Typography Courses. Useful Tips on How to Design a Great Magazine and Book Covers.

Html Goodies.com

Here you will found: Tips for Increasing Online Sales. Tips for Writing Code in WordPress Posts. Tutorial for HTML5 Mobile App Development. JavaScript and Bootstrap development Articles.

Creative Bloq

Creative Bloq delivers a daily balance of creative tips and inspiration across web design, graphic design, 3D and more. Bringing the very best design work to our audience and offering the insight that enables them to keep up to date with the latest trends and developments in global design and to create their best work.

Why PHP is the best choice for you?

“If you are looking for a professional training course, PHP could be the best choice for you.”

Why PHP is considered as a best choice for future?

In this article, we will study and discuss various factors related to PHP programming language that makes it best in the industry. We will also cover frequently asked questions that a student or fresher have before joining a new training course.

This article is helpful for anyone who is looking for a training course related Computers, Information Technology or Website Development. Even if you are a student and have no idea what to do next for your career, college project, job, learning or earning, this article will help you clearing your doubts. Without wasting more time, let us go ahead.

What is PHP?

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development. It is used by more than 80% of the all top ranked websites. You can read more about PHP in PHP Introduction OR Wiki.

Why PHP is the best choice for my career or training?

  • PHP is easy to learn as compared to other programming languages such as ASP.net/Java.
  • PHP is widely used programming language in the world, so there are more jobs and opportunities available in the market than any other language.
  • You can easily find a PHP Training institute nearby and join a short or long term PHP training course.
  • PHP is free and Open source. Therefore, you may find a lot of study material and tutorials online free of charge for your practice.

I am just a Beginner in IT and just have basic knowledge of computer. Can I join PHP training?

Yes!! You can definitely join PHP training course. It is helpful if you have basic knowledge of any programming language such as C or HTML, but it is not mandatory. All you have to do is to study little harder initially to cover basic programming concepts.

Can I get a job in PHP easily?

It is easy to get a job in PHP as compared to any other programming languages.

In other languages (such as java/asp etc), company often demands experienced candidates. For freshers, they require very high programming skills along with reference sometimes.

In PHP, the chances to get a job is better even if you are a fresher. However, it is essential to learn the basic programming concepts, apply & search jobs online and prepare well to crack the interviews. Ultimately, PHP is the best choice to make an entry in the IT or Web Development.

After entry in PHP, can I switch my job in other technology?

There are many advance tools and technologies getting introduced in IT everyday. While working in PHP, you will also get to (sometime have to) work with related technologies. If you find any related technology more suitable for your career, you can learn that in depth and switch to that.

It is not necessary that you will work in the same technology life time. Many companies switch their employees to other technologies based on project requirement. Once you are familiar with one technology or programming language (for example PHP), you can learn other related technologies with little effort such as HTML/JS/ASP etc.

Once you enter in market, you will often find that professionals are working on multiple technologies at the same time. Therefore, PHP can be your dream career or takes you to your dream career.

Can I join PHP or web development, if I am not from Engineering or IT Background?

If you are graduate from engineering or do not have IT/Programming background, the doors are open for you. Anyone who has basic computer programming knowledge (such as html or c), can easily enter into website development using PHP. Even if you do not know anything about programming, you can give it a try. All it takes is some effort and if you find it interesting building websites, no doubts will be left there. Just give it a try.

List of online Editors to run PHP online

When you start working with PHP, you need to install PHP along with web server. XAMPP, LAMP, and WAMP are the most popular open-source software which allows you to install Apache (Web Server), MariaDB (database), and PHP (programming language) easily.

However, as a beginner, it may take some time to install and run your first program on your machine. But if you do not have much time and want to quickly try PHP you can do it online.

There are a number of tools available to execute PHP online. You only need a web browser and internet connection. There is no need to install PHP and web server. Most of these online tools have limited functionality and do not run some functions such as mail() function, file deletion and database related functions because of security concerns. However, you do not need them while just starting to learn PHP

You may call these PHP online tools as a PHP Sandbox (Tester), In-Browser IDE, Online PHP Compiler or Online PHP Editor. These tools and websites are good to write and execute your PHP online.

Online PHP Editors & Compilers:

Some of these websites can run multiple programming languages, so you need to select PHP option if not already selected.

Paiza.IO

Website: https://paiza.io/en/projects/new?language=php

paiza.IO is an online editor and compiler where you can write and run code instantly. Whenever you come up with a new idea, learn or teach programming, you and others can just write and run code.

We are keeping Paiza.IO top on our list because it also allows you to execute HTML outside of PHP. You can also save your program and share with your friends. Therefore, Paiza.IO is one of the best tools to run PHP online.

PhpFiddle

Main Website: http://phpfiddle.org/
Lite Website: http://phpfiddle.org/lite

PhpFiddle offers Web IDE, Web Tools, APIs, Widgets, PHP Libraries, programming resources and execution environment for PHP/MySQL and HTML/CSS/JavaScript online coding. Here, you can type your PHP code in CodeSpace and press Run (of F9) to execute PHP.

You can also access lite version to quick run your code. You can find links and download other public codes as well. Using PHP Fiddle you can even run HTML outside of PHP bracket similar to Paizo.IO. It also allows you to save you PHP code on git along with many other options such as to Format your coding.

PHPTester

Website: http://phptester.net/

PHPTESTER allows you to test your PHP code online on different versions without the need of a web server. This website is totally dedicated to PHP language only.

Advantage: You can run a program in PHP 5.3 to 7.4 (current version).
Disadvantage: You can not run any HTML code outside PHP bracket.

Write PHP Online

Website: http://www.writephponline.com/

Write PHP Online is an online code editor that helps you to write and test run your PHP code online from your browser anywhere, anytime. This website also provides a list of functions that you can directly run. You can also format your code using PHP Beautifier.

Online PHP Compiler by TutorialsPoint

Website: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_php_online.php

Using this Online Php Editor, you can run your PHP code online. Currently, HTML outside PHP bracket is not executing but you can use it if only want to run code inside PHP bracket.

PHP Sandbox

Website: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/

This is another good online tool that provides a wide range of PHP versions to test your PHP code. You can run your code even on older PHP 4.9 version. You can find all (more than 60) major and minor PHP versions for testing.

Here, you can also find references to different PHP functions related to Arrays, String Manipulation, and Regular Expressions.

PHP Online Compiler by Rextester

Website: https://rextester.com/l/php_online_compiler

Using this online compiler, you can run PHP code along with MySQL, C, C++, Java and many more. Similar to some of the above websites, HTML code will not execute outside PHP bracket and visible as it is. You can switch the Code window interface with horizontal and vertical.

Overall, if you want to run HTML along with PHP (outside of PHP bracket), Paiza.IO and PhpFiddle are good choices to run PHP code online. If you are looking for Online PHP code testing on different versions, PHPTester and Rextester PHP Compiler can be used.

You can Learn PHP step by step by using our PHP Tutorials along with exercises and FAQs at the end of each tutorial.