The following is a collection of useful starter guides and tutorials.
Beginner Guides
- Resources (books) for learning OOP in PHP?
- PHP 101 for the absolute beginner
- Start From Scratch with CodeAcademy
- introduction
- PHP the right way
- PHP best practices
- The modern PHP Developer
CURL Tutorials
- Basic curl example
- Using Curl 101
- Techniques for Mastering cURL
- Using cURL with PHP
- CURL Requests with PHP
- PHP/cURL
Database Specific
- PHP MySQLI
- PDO Manual
- Why you should be using php's PDO for database access
- Prepared Statements in PHP and MySQLi
Password Hashing
OOP Tutorials
- PHP Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals
- Object Oriented Programming in PHP
- Object Oriented PHP for beginners
- PHP 5 OOP Tutorial
- Object Oriented Concepts
- PHP 5 OOP (PDF)
- PHP 5 Tutorial – Final Class and Methods
- OOP Manual
Video Tutorials
- Laracasts - video tutorials for Laravel
- PHP fundamentals
- Object Oriented PHP for beginners
- Killer PHP
- learn php tutorial
- Lynda.com
- Video PHP Blog
- PHP tutorial List (Youtube)
Starter Projects
Regular Expressions
- Regular Expressions for Dummies: Screencast Series
- Advanced Regular Expression Tips and Techniques
- You Don’t Know Anything About Regular Expressions: A Complete Guide
Other PHP Tutorials and links
- PHP Variables: the Ultimate guide
- David Carr's php tutorials
- 3D pie chart
- MPDF Manual
- Survive The Deep End: PHP Security
- Preventing CSRF Attacks
Free Books