Welcome to Intro to PHP for Web Development, my name is John Elder, and
I'll be your instructor today.
In this course, I'm going to teach you everything you need to know to learn PHP
for web development, and I'm very excited about this course, I hope you are too.
PHP is just a lot of fun to use, it's been around forever,
it's one of the most stable and the most used programming language online.
And one of the reasons why it's so popular, PHP is not the newest,
greatest programming language, it's been around for a long time.
But the reason why it's so popular is for one very, very specific thing,
and that is WordPress.
WordPress is built completely with PHP, any time you want to tinker with
WordPress, or change it, or do anything at all, you're gonna be working with PHP.
And I don't know what WordPress controls now, but it is something like, I don't
know, 70% of all websites, WordPress websites, or some crazy stat like that.
But if you're interested in WordPress, you're gonna be working with PHP.
But, apart from WordPress, PHP is just a great language to use,
you don't need to use it with WordPress, you can use it for anything at all.
And we're not gonna be spending any time at all looking at WordPress in this
course, I'm gonna just teach you the fundamental basics of PHP, and then if
you actually want to use it for WordPress, you'll have the tools that you need.
So, in this course,
we're going to spend a lot of time talking about just basic programming concepts,
things like variables and operators, and loops, and if then statements, and
if else statements, and arrays, and all those sort of basic programming things.
I'm gonna teach you how to do all that stuff with PHP,
we'll spend a little bit of time looking through the PHP documentation online.
It's completely free, and it has all kinds of great stuff that you can look up and
read on if you're interested in certain things.
I'm also gonna teach you how to use version control in GitHub,
GitHub is a popular website for computer programmers for
a lot of different reasons, we'll get into that.
And we're also gonna talk about Heroku, which is a free hosting service, well,
it's paid, but there's a free part of it that we can use, and
we're going to use in this course.
So, we'll start out, we'll set up our own development environment, and
this is what it's gonna look like, it's a cloud9.io.
And we'll get into this later, and I'll show you how to use this and everything,
it's also free.
But after I teach you the basics,
we're gonna create this very simple math flash card game.
And it's just, you can see, ten plus two equals 12, Submit, Correct.
Four plus six equals 66, Wrong, just is a very basic thing.
But it's going to allow us to tie together all of the things we learned throughout
this course into a fun little app, something you can stick in your
portfolio if you're looking for work as a PHP programmer.
It's always good to show things that you've created to potential employers and
things like that.
So I'm really looking forward to this course, I think it's gonna be a lot of
fun, PHP is just so useful and so easy to use once you learn the basics.
You're gonna be surprised just how quick and easy you pick this up.
In the next video, we're gonna dive right in, talk about what is PHP,
what it's used for, and yeah, looking forward to it.