Books and Courses
Books
Mezzio Essentials
Mezzio Essentials teaches the fundamentals of PHP’s leading development framework, the fundamentals that you need to know so that you can begin building applications right away. It’s a practical, hands-on approach which shows you enough of how Mezzio is put together as well as how to use it, while not getting lost in things that aren’t generally necessary.
Zend Framework 2 Foundations
Want to get started the right way with Zend Framework 2? This book gives you the best start by focusing on the key information you need to know. From views, controllers, actions, modules, and configuration, to the key patterns which underpin Zend Framework 2. This book gets you off to the right start, with a tight focus on what you need to know, packed with best-practices and hands-on tips.
Courses
Zend Db Deep Dive
Length: 2 hours, 4 minutes / Level: Intermediate
SQL is an essential skill in developing modern web applications.
This course will teach you how to generate SQL for manipulating schemas and extracting data in an object-oriented, nearly hassle-free manner using the Zend\Db library.
Zend Framework 2: The Basics
Length: 128 minutes / Level: Intermediate
Time to up-skill? Look no further than Zend Framework 2. This course explores PHP’s flagship framework in a way that suits all PHP developers. Maybe you’re an old hand with the likes of Laravel, FuelPHP, Symfony 2, or Kohana. Or maybe you’re currently building web apps without a PHP or MVC framework.
In this course, you’ll learn the essential features of Zend Framework 2. And by the time you’re done, you’ll be putting them to work in your professional and pet projects.
Get Started With PhpStorm
Length: 13 Minutes / Level: Beginner
Codebases are becoming ever larger and ever more sophisticated. This leads to greater demands on us, as developers, both to familiarize ourselves with codebases and to be efficient with them. PhpStorm dramatically reduces these demands by providing a large array of features, such as code navigation, intelligent code completion, refactoring, and more. In this course, for Envato Tuts+, you get a rapid introduction to PhpStorm and some of the key features which it offers.
First Look at SlimPHP
Length: 11 minutes / Level: Beginner
SlimPHP is an excellent framework for building micro applications in PHP, the kind of app that does one thing, and does it well. In this short course, you’ll:
- Get a good introduction to SlimPHP and see how a standard SlimPHP application is built.
- See how to work with GET and POST routes, and how to retrieve data from the environment.
- Learn how to use templates in SlimPHP and how to manipulate template variables.
As a result, you’ll gain a thorough understanding of how a SlimPHP app is put together, specifically configuring application settings, dependencies, and routes.
Build a Static Site Generator Using SPL Iterators
Length: 26 minutes / Level: Intermediate
In PHP, we’re all familiar with the foreach, for, do-while, and while looping constructs, which help us quickly and easily iterate over data structures in our applications. But did you know that they’re just the tip of the iceberg, and that you can use these constructs in a much more powerful way?
In this course, for Envato Tuts+, you’ll get an introduction to SPL iterators, and learn how to create iterator classes which allow you to use the looping constructs to iterate over your data in a more powerful, more flexible, and more elegant way than you’ve done before. Along the way, you’ll build a simple static site generator which reads markdown from a filesystem directory listing and creates hydrated value objects which model the data they contain.