Learn PHP 7 and Laravel Master course
One continuous path from your first PHP variable to a complete Laravel application with authentication, a database, and an external API.
PHP is the least fashionable language that will reliably pay your bills. It runs an enormous share of the working web, the agency world hires for it constantly, and Laravel has grown into one of the most respected backend frameworks anywhere. While everyone else fights over the trendy stacks, PHP developers quietly take the jobs.
This course takes you from zero PHP to building complete Laravel applications, in that order, without skipping the middle.
Why the order matters
Most Laravel tutorials start at Laravel, which produces developers who can follow a tutorial and freeze the moment something breaks underneath. This course spends its first half on PHP itself: the full syntax tour with quizzes on every topic, request handling with GET, POST, cookies, and sessions, and a serious object-oriented programming section covering classes, inheritance, interfaces, dependency injection, static methods, and namespaces. That OOP vocabulary is exactly what Laravel is made of, so when you reach the framework, its magic reads as engineering instead of magic.
Between the language and the framework sits the most valuable stretch of the course: building a CRUD application with raw PHP, MySQL, and PDO. Once you have written your own create, read, update, and delete against a database by hand, migrations and Eloquent stop being mysterious. You know precisely what they replaced.
The four projects
The projects escalate. A simple site with navigation gets you rendering pages. The raw PHP and MySQL CRUD app teaches the database layer honestly. The Laravel CRUD rebuild introduces routing, controllers, migrations, Blade templates, and Eloquent models on familiar ground. Then Design Storm, the capstone: a full application with authentication, an external API connection, search, projects and inspirations with real database relationships, and complete flows for creating, updating, and deleting everything, finished with a challenge to extend it yourself.
That last project is portfolio material. It is the difference between telling an interviewer you know Laravel and showing them an app with auth, relationships, and an API integration you built from nothing.
The career case
PHP developer roles in the US typically pay $65,000 to $130,000, and the supply-demand math favors you: fewer new developers learn PHP now, while the installed base of PHP applications keeps growing and needs people. This course anchors the PHP Developer career path, and if you are still deciding between backend languages, read PHP vs Python for the honest comparison.
What you'll learn
- ✓ Write PHP from scratch, including variables, strings, arrays, loops, and functions
- ✓ Handle real request data with GET, POST, cookies, and sessions
- ✓ Write object-oriented PHP with classes, interfaces, dependency injection, and namespaces
- ✓ Build a CRUD app against MySQL with PDO and understand what frameworks automate
- ✓ Build Laravel applications with routing, controllers, migrations, Blade, and Eloquent
- ✓ Ship a complete project with authentication, database relationships, and an external API
Course Curriculum
8 sections
1
Introduction
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2
Syntax
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3
Global Variables
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4
Object Oriented Programming with PHP
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5
Project 1 - Simple website
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6
Project 2- CRUD with PHP and Mysql
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7
Project 3 - Laravel CRUD
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8
Project 4 - Design Storm
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Before you start
- ✓ Basic HTML and CSS, since the projects render real pages
- ✓ No prior PHP or programming experience required; the syntax section starts at zero
