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PHP Next Steps

Frameworks, testing and interview practice after the PHP basics.

Build real projects

Laravel — the most popular PHP framework: routing, Eloquent ORM, queues, auth.
Symfony — reusable components and a full framework, popular in enterprises.
PHPUnit or Pest — write tests for your code.
PHPStan or Psalm — static analysis catches bugs before they run.

Go deeper on ReadyCamel

Modern PHP 8 course — types, enums, attributes, performance.
PHP cookbook — practical recipes.
PHP 8 interview questions.

Practise

Slugify and Rank players
Enum state machine
Output puzzles: string comparison, foreach by reference, array keys

Example 1Try it yourself

<?php
$learned = ["syntax", "arrays", "functions", "forms", "OOP", "enums", "PDO", "Composer"];
foreach ($learned as $i => $topic) {
    echo $i + 1, ". $topic ✓\n";
}
echo "Next: build a Laravel app!\n";

Output

1. syntax ✓
2. arrays ✓
3. functions ✓
4. forms ✓
5. OOP ✓
6. enums ✓
7. PDO ✓
8. Composer ✓
Next: build a Laravel app!