PHP: The Big Picture

Focused View

Jonathan Klein

50:41

141 View

1. Course Overview

1. Course Overview.mp4

01:19

2. PHP in Context

1. Intro.mp4

00:56

2. What is PHP.mp4

02:37

3. History.mp4

03:47

4. Modern PHP.mp4

03:52

3. PHP vs. the Competition

1. PHP vs. Other Interpreted Languages.mp4

03:44

2. PHP vs. Hack~HHVM.mp4

02:58

3. PHPs Future.mp4

02:16

4. Recap.mp4

00:54

4. PHP Basics

1. Dependency Management.mp4

03:01

2. Working with Databases.mp4

04:05

3. Object Oriented Programming in PHP.mp4

03:57

4. Network Requests.mp4

04:03

5. Recap.mp4

00:54

5. Building Robust Production Applications

1. Performance.mp4

04:24

2. Scalability.mp4

01:45

3. Community.mp4

02:07

4. Web Requests vs. Long Running Processes.mp4

01:34

5. Should You Use PHP.mp4

02:28

Description

This course explores why PHP is worth considering, tradeoffs to consider, and reasons PHP may or may not be the right fit for your next project.

What You'll Learn?

PHP powered early versions of Facebook, Slack, Wikipedia, Wordpress, and more. At one point it ran over 50% of the internet! Has it kept up with the times, and is it right for you? In this course, PHP: The Big Picture, you will explore what makes PHP so important. First, you will learn why PHP became so popular. Next, you will learn the tradeoffs inherent in PHP’s design. After watching this course, you'll have a clear understanding of PHP’s core use cases, advantages, and drawbacks so you can make an educated decision on whether PHP is right for you.

More details

User Reviews

Rating

average 0

Total votes0

Focused display

PHP

Jonathan Klein

Instructor's Courses

Jonathan is the CTO at KOHO, where he helps democratize access to financial products for all Canadians. Previously he led the Storefront Engineering team at Wayfair, ran engineering at Attend, and before that he was a senior software engineer at Etsy, where he focused on solving web performance and scalability challenges. He started the Boston Web Performance Meetup Group, and he contributes to a few open-source projects, including the HTTPArchive, WebPagetest, CSSLint, and Hound (which he co-created).

Pluralsight

View courses Pluralsight

Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. As of July 2018, it uses more than 1,400 subject-matter experts as authors, and offers more than 7,000 courses in its catalog. Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.