While my teaching, writing and development mostly focusses on front-end web technologies - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - this site also contains content on back-end tech, including PHP and MySQL. This reading list therefore constitutes an introduction to the fundamentals of PHP; further research will be required for more advanced topics.

PHP is the “greasy engine under the hood” that - despite the popularity of frameworks like React, Angular and Vue - still helps to run the majority of modern sites. As such, most front-end developers should have at least a basic understanding of PHP, which this reading list is intended to provide.

Goals: Learn the fundamentals of PHP and apply it appropriately to web pages.

Prerequisites: HTML

Time: 2 hours

1. Introduction
2. Basics
3. Validation, eMail & Uploads

There are also a few articles from the Galleries reading list that use PHP:

1. Simple PHP Image Gallery
2. Auto-Caption Using Filenames
3. Auto-Caption Using GET

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