Things a PHP programmer or php web developer must know

You have learnt basic PHP to work into web development field and you trying to upgrade yourself. Do you have question like, How can you be better? These are few things you must know to become a better PHP programmer or web developer before upgrade yourself

1. Client – Server interaction using HTTP

You should know how website functioning in between client and server. You have to get knowledge about how HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) request and HTTP response working.

2. Basic PHP Programming Skill and Brief introduction of HTML, CSS and Javascript

You should be clear about some basic PHP knowledge like Syntax, Variable, Global Variable, Data type, Operators, Control structure, Session. As PHP easily embedded with HTML you should have knowledge of frequently used HTML element like., DIV, P, ul, li, ol, li, img, a. HTML is use for giving web structure and CSS is use for give style to website, You should have to knowledge of brief introduction, specially How many way we can give CSS to HTML and basic CSS element.

3. Use of Global Variable and difference between global variable like $_POST vs $_GET.

Try to understand global variable like $_POST, $_GET, $_REQUEST, $_SESSION, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, $_ENV, $_FILES. GET is vulnerable to injection attacks. Since GET is simple to emulate, One can hack the project by adding something in the address bar. Also, GET has a limit on how much data one can send, while POST doesn’t.

4. Get touch with PHP Manual along with user contribute note:

Refer the PHP manual. Really, This the the holy grail for newbie programmer. It contains information regarding everything about PHP and MySQL. Specially we have to go through the user contributed note for each topic of PHP manual.

5. Try to make habit to code as per PHP standard:

Commenting is a good way to make code understandable, to the person other than the author. If for some reason, author stops developing, the new developer can understand the code quickly with the help of the comments. Same we try to followup any of PHP coding standard which you like.

6. Database skill of connection and handling:

This is one of the most important thing that a PHP developer must know. Properly connecting to database and running queries on database is a must have skill to become a good developer. Developer should have to know about how many databases we can use as backend with PHP like., Mysql, Oracle, Mssql etc. and basic function for connection with that database. It’s good to know how to write basic queries and Data modification Language (DML).

7. PHP CRUD application

You should able to create CRUD (CREATE-READ-UPDATE-DELETE) application base on PHP. Try to do repetitively practice to make small module like., ‘Feedback’, ‘Country’, ‘City’, ‘State’, ‘Contactus’ which have only CRUD application.

8. Awareness about CMS and Frameworks

Basic PHP is known as native/core language, now a days there is lot of CMS ( content managent system) and framework available which make work easy for us. So you should be get in touch with different CMS and framework like. ‘WordPress’, ‘Drupal’, ‘Joomla’ and ‘Zend’, ‘CakePHP’, etc., Not only PHP base framework, but you should be aware about Javascript & CSS base framework like Jquery, Bootstrap etc.

9. How PHP work with AJAX

As Ajax most useful concept to make UI friendly website. Every PHP programmer should have basic knowledge of AJAX and how it work with PHP.

10. Object Oriented Programming in PHP

OOP is very famous concept for all the programming language, PHP or web developer should have knowledge about OOP concept and how it will implement in PHP programming language.