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PHP and Modern Frameworks

Build maintainable web applications with contemporary PHP, Laravel-style architecture, APIs, security, testing, and deployment practices.

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Quick Course Facts
19
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
19
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.7
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the PHP and Modern Frameworks Course

PHP and Modern Frameworks is a practical Programming course for developers who want to build maintainable web applications with contemporary PHP, Laravel-style architecture, APIs, security, testing, and deployment practices. You will refresh core PHP skills, understand modern framework patterns, and learn how professional applications are structured from development through production.

Build Production-Ready Applications With PHP And Modern Frameworks

  • Strengthen your Programming foundation with modern PHP syntax, object-oriented design, Composer, autoloading, and PSR standards.
  • Learn Laravel-style architecture through MVC, routing, controllers, middleware, service containers, configuration, and application bootstrapping.
  • Develop secure, data-driven features using migrations, ORM models, validation, authentication, authorization, APIs, and integration safeguards.
  • Improve software quality with testing, logging, caching, queues, deployment workflows, containers, performance practices, and framework selection criteria.

PHP and Modern Frameworks teaches the skills needed to create secure, maintainable, modern PHP web applications.

This course begins with the role of modern PHP in today’s web stack, then moves through the language features that matter most for professional Programming work: types, arrays, functions, error handling, classes, interfaces, traits, and namespaces. You will also learn how Composer, package management, autoloading, and coding standards support reliable development across real-world projects.

From there, you will explore how contemporary PHP frameworks organize applications. Lessons cover MVC architecture, requests and responses, routing, controllers, middleware, templates, components, environment variables, secrets, and bootstrapping so you can understand not just what frameworks do, but why they are structured that way.

You will build practical knowledge for data-driven application development, including migrations, query builders, ORM models, relationships, repositories, forms, validation, file uploads, sessions, passwords, account workflows, roles, policies, and access control. The course also covers RESTful APIs, pagination, status codes, API authentication, rate limiting, CORS, and integration security.

By the end of PHP and Modern Frameworks, you will know how to build maintainable web applications with contemporary PHP, Laravel-style architecture, APIs, security, testing, and deployment practices. You will be better prepared to choose between Laravel, Symfony, Slim, and other tools, and you will approach PHP Programming with the structure, confidence, and production awareness expected in modern web development.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

3 lessons

This lesson positions modern PHP as a practical, current web development platform rather than a legacy scripting tool. Students learn how PHP fits into today’s stack alongside frameworks, package mana…

Lesson 2: Language Refresh: Types, Arrays, Functions, and Error Handling

20 min
This lesson refreshes the PHP language features that matter most before moving into framework architecture: practical type declarations, modern array handling, clear function design, and reliable erro…

Lesson 3: Object-Oriented PHP: Classes, Interfaces, Traits, and Namespaces

22 min
This lesson introduces modern object-oriented PHP as the foundation for maintainable framework-based applications. Students learn how classes model behavior and state, how visibility and constructors …

Modern PHP Tooling

2 lessons

Lesson 4: Composer, Autoloading, Packages, and PSR Standards

19 min
This lesson introduces Composer as the standard dependency manager for modern PHP applications, with attention to how packages are installed, versioned, updated, and autoloaded. Learners connect pract…

Lesson 5: Framework Architecture: MVC, Requests, Responses, and Service Containers

22 min
This lesson explains how modern PHP frameworks organize web applications around an HTTP request lifecycle, MVC boundaries, routing, middleware, controllers, responses, and service containers. Learners…

Building Framework Applications

3 lessons

Lesson 6: Routing, Controllers, Middleware, and HTTP Flow

21 min
This lesson explains how a modern PHP framework moves an HTTP request from the web server into application code and back out as a response. Learners will connect routes, controllers, middleware, reque…

Lesson 7: Views, Templates, Layouts, Components, and Asset Organization

18 min
This lesson explains how modern PHP applications keep presentation code maintainable through views, templates, layouts, partials, and reusable components. It focuses on framework-style organization si…

Lesson 8: Configuration, Environment Variables, Secrets, and Application Bootstrapping

17 min
This lesson explains how modern PHP framework applications separate configuration from code, load environment-specific values, protect secrets, and bootstrap services before handling a request. Studen…

Data-Driven Development

2 lessons

Lesson 9: Database Access with Migrations, Query Builders, and ORM Models

23 min
In this lesson, students learn how modern PHP applications organize database work around three layers: migrations for schema history, query builders for expressive SQL, and ORM models for domain-orien…

Lesson 10: Relationships, Repositories, and Practical Data Modeling

22 min
This lesson focuses on turning real application requirements into practical relational models in modern PHP applications. Students learn how to identify entities, choose relationship types, design for…

Application Features

3 lessons

Lesson 11: Forms, Validation, File Uploads, and User Input Safety

21 min
This lesson teaches how to accept user input safely in a modern PHP application using framework-style request handling, validation rules, form repopulation, file upload controls, and output escaping. …

Lesson 12: Sessions, Authentication, Passwords, and Account Workflows

23 min
This lesson explains how modern PHP applications manage user identity with sessions, authentication flows, secure password handling, and common account workflows. Students will learn what belongs in t…

Lesson 13: Authorization, Roles, Policies, and Access Control Patterns

20 min
This lesson explains how modern PHP applications control what authenticated users are allowed to do. It separates authentication from authorization, then shows how roles, permissions, policies, middle…

APIs and Integration

2 lessons

Lesson 14: Building RESTful APIs with Resources, Pagination, and Status Codes

23 min
In this lesson, Professor Anthony Owens teaches how to design RESTful API endpoints in a modern PHP application using resource-oriented routing, explicit JSON response shapes, pagination metadata, and…

Lesson 15: API Authentication, Rate Limiting, CORS, and Integration Security

21 min
This lesson shows how to secure PHP APIs at the integration boundary: authenticating clients, limiting abusive traffic, configuring CORS correctly, and protecting service-to-service communication. Stu…

Quality and Maintainability

2 lessons

Lesson 16: Testing PHP Applications with Unit, Feature, and Database Tests

24 min
This lesson shows how to test PHP web applications at the right level of detail: fast unit tests for isolated logic, feature tests for HTTP behavior, and database tests for persistence rules and data-…

Lesson 17: Logging, Exceptions, Caching, Queues, and Background Jobs

22 min
This lesson shows how modern PHP applications stay observable, resilient, and responsive when real users, failures, and slow work enter the system. Students learn how to use structured logging, centra…

Framework Strategy

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Comparing Laravel, Symfony, Slim, and Framework Selection Criteria

19 min
This lesson compares Laravel, Symfony, and Slim as strategic choices rather than popularity contests. Students learn how each framework shapes application architecture, team workflow, testing, securit…

Production Workflow

1 lesson

Lesson 19: Deployment, Performance, Containers, and Production Readiness

24 min
In this lesson, students learn how to move a modern PHP application from local development into a predictable production workflow. The focus is not only on uploading code, but on preparing configurati…
About Your Instructor
Professor Anthony Owens

Professor Anthony Owens

Professor Anthony Owens guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.