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A quick history on PHP, some of the major changes, and what is being done by the community to fix the legacy of old tutorials, and outdated learning resources.
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PHP for years has been the language that programmers interested in web
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development would learn first.
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As programmers get better at programming in their language of choice,
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they grow more confident and release code.
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Unfortunately, PHP being a language with lots of beginners in it,
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a lot of this code used to be messy, insecure, and
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often not the most efficient way of doing things.
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Developers would then move on to other languages and
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leave their old code floating around on blogs, meaning other beginners would
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find that code try using it, and the circle would continue.
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These days PHP is a much healthier environment with great quality
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code around.
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This is in part thanks to projects like the PHP Framework Inter Operability Group,
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which helps write standards for PHP projects to conform to.
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Another popular resource is PHP The Right Way, which acts as a living document for
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up-to-date information about which extensions, packages, frameworks and
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the like, can be used to achieve certain things.
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Following advice on here can save you a lot of headaches when you're uploading
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applications with PHP.
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Unfortunately, despite the advances in the community,
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a lot of the old code is still floating around.
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This course will teach you how to distribute your code in a quality way, and
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teach you how to look out for good code too, so you know the difference.
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