I put together this project while introducing a friend of mine to PHP. I decided to clean it up a bit and put it on Github so anyone new to PHP can have a taste of a very simple and minimal website built with PHP.
This project is meant for beginners. I've intentionally kept it minimal while introducing some separation of concerns.
There are only two steps to run this website:
- Download the project to the desired directory on your computer
- Run
php -S localhost:8080on your terminal. Navigate to http://localhost:8080 to see the site.
By defaut, the page URLs use query strings (?page=about). You need to have Apache installed for pretly URLs (/about) to work. To activate pretty urls, update config value of pretty_uri to true.
The project covers these programming concepts:
- Variables
- Arrays
- Functions
- Pretty links (/about) with fallback to query string (?page=about)
- Basic example of separation of concerns (functionality, template, content)
To help you take your knowledge of PHP to the next level, I've personally hunt down what I deem to be the best introductory course on PHP out there. I wish this course existed when I started learing PHP. Check it out on Udemy: PHP for Beginners Course.
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