Our Recommended Books for PHP Programming
1. Clean Code by Robert Martin
This book was central to me leveling up my programming career. While this book may be older and the examples aren’t in PHP, it should be on the bookshelves of every professional software engineer. It goes beyond the “science” of computer science and dives into the pragmatic practices every software engineer should follow. I highly recommend this book as a foundation for every programming career.
Skill Level: Intermediate
2. Clean Code in PHP by Alexandre Daubois
This is a newer book and is based on the concepts of the classic mentioned above. It applies the topics mentioned above and helps you build high-quality, testable and READABLE PHP applications. You can buy this book as a companion to the Clean Code above or as a standalone as intro into the clean code theory. It’s a great read for any PHP programmer.
Skill Level: Beginner – Intermediate
3. PHP Web Development With Laminas
Skill Level: Beginner
4. PHP & MySQL: Server-Side Web Development
Skill Level: Beginner
5. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Skill Level: Intermediate
6. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Design
Skill Level: Intermediate
PHP Fundamentals Article Series
This article is part of our series on learning the fundamentals of PHP web development. If you are stepping into your PHP journey. Check out the articles in this series to get deeper into PHP.
- Learn PHP Web Application Development
- Is PHP Easy to Learn
- Why does PHP have a bad reputation
- 5 PHP Template Engines Compared
- How to Filter Arrays in PHP with array_filter() Code Examples
- Object-Oriented PHP Programming Tutorial
- PHP Data Structures
- The 3 types of arrays in PHP
- Single vs Double Question Mark in PHP
- Join & Append PHP Strings
- Using PHP in_array
