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PHP

Posted by abbey
abbey
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Building Websites with PHP vs. Build a Simple PHP Application?

I've been working through the PHP track, and just finished up OOP Basics. The next step is the Building Websites with PHP course, but I see there's also a similar course posted in the Library, Build a Simple PHP Application (https://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-simple-php-application).

Has anyone tried both of these courses? How do they differ? Which would be better to focus on for working with OOP?

1 Answer

Ted Sumner
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Ted Sumner
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Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

Neither course will really tackle OOP. I am learning it with projects on my own as I have not really found a course that expands on the concepts in the first course.

Building web sites with PHP teaches a microframework call Slim and uses the really cool tool called Composer. It is an intermediate to advanced course in my opinion.

Build a simple PHP Application is the first of three videos that builds a basic e-commerce site, then shows some techniques to simplify URS and other items, then converts it to using a database. The Building Web Sites with PHP course could then be extended to implement the Slim microframework to simplify URLs in a much more elegant way.

If your sole exposure to PHP is through Treehouse, I would do the 3 course sequence of Build a Simple PHP Application first, then do the Building Web Sites with PHP.