What next? PHP Track

If you have done the PHP track, then have a look here: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/topic:learn-php There are some more courses to do there for PHP.

OOP Basics and Laravel Basics is not much. I'll go through them quickly and I'll be asking the same question. What Next?

Well, I have the same situation. So, here is what I am doing.

1. There was just a PHP thread from an admin here on the forum where he basically asks the same question. "What do you want to do next?" I mentioned taking what we have learned about so far and building a new course that focuses on more advanced PHP programming topics. Things like Object Oriented PHP Programming, Separation of Concerns, more advanced MVC, Namespacing, using Composer and Packagist to manage dependencies, etc. You may want to head over to that forum post and check it out and maybe put in your thoughts about what you would like to see next.

Basically for me, I need something that fills in the space between what we did in the PHP track and then using Laravel. Because honestly, the jump from "Shirts 4 Mike" to Laravel is a huge huge difference in methodology.

1. I will always stay with treehouse, however, there are some other resources out there that can help fill in a lot of the space that Treehouse is currently missing. For example, there is an amazing course over at tuts+ that is PHP OOP by Joost Van Veen. Really Really a nice course with some advanced topics. (I hope I am not shamed for mentioning another site here)

2. Maybe take a look at another language. I found that working on another language helps reinforce concepts that are common to almost all programming languages.

Then, there is always searching around the web for more advanced PHP topics. Also, like mentioned above, you could try to build something or try and contribute to an open source project on Github. You can't really go wrong with that!

Hope that helps!