PHP and Modern Frameworks
Build maintainable web applications with contemporary PHP, Laravel-style architecture, APIs, security, testing, and deployment practices.
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.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
Foundations
3 lessons
Modern PHP Tooling
2 lessons
Building Framework Applications
3 lessons
Data-Driven Development
2 lessons
Application Features
3 lessons
APIs and Integration
2 lessons
Quality and Maintainability
2 lessons
Framework Strategy
1 lesson
Production Workflow
1 lesson
Professor Anthony Owens
Professor Anthony Owens guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.