🧠 PHP Complete Syllabus (2026 Updated)
🔰 1. Introduction to PHP
- What is PHP?
- History & Versions
- How PHP works (Client vs Server)
- Installing XAMPP / WAMP / LAMP
- Running first PHP script
- PHP syntax basics
🧾 2. PHP Basics
- Variables & Data Types
- Constants
- Operators (Arithmetic, Comparison, Logical)
- Echo vs Print
- Comments
🔀 3. Control Structures
- If, Else, Elseif
- Switch Case
- Ternary Operator
- Match Expression (PHP 8+)
🔁 4. Loops
- for loop
- while loop
- do-while loop
- foreach loop
- Break & Continue
📦 5. Functions
- User-defined functions
- Function parameters
- Default arguments
- Return values
- Variable functions
- Recursive functions
📚 6. Arrays
- Indexed arrays
- Associative arrays
- Multidimensional arrays
- Array functions (sort, merge, filter, map)
🔤 7. Strings
- String functions
- String manipulation
- Explode / Implode
- Regular Expressions (Regex)
📂 8. Forms Handling
- GET vs POST
- Form validation
- Sanitization
- File upload handling
🍪 9. Cookies & Sessions
- Creating cookies
- Deleting cookies
- Sessions (start, destroy)
- Session security
🗄️ 10. File Handling
- Read/write files
- fopen, fread, fwrite
- File upload system
- Directory handling
🧱 11. Object-Oriented PHP (OOP)
- Classes & Objects
- Properties & Methods
- Constructor & Destructor
- Inheritance
- Encapsulation
- Polymorphism
- Traits
- Interfaces & Abstract Classes
🔌 12. Database (MySQL)
- Introduction to MySQL
- Connecting PHP with MySQL
- MySQLi & PDO
- CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
- Prepared Statements (important 🔥)
🔐 13. Security in PHP
- SQL Injection prevention
- XSS protection
- CSRF protection
- Password hashing (password_hash)
- Data sanitization
🌐 14. Working with APIs
- REST API basics
- Fetch API using PHP (cURL)
- JSON handling (encode/decode)
⚙️ 15. Error Handling
- Error types
- try-catch blocks
- Custom errors
- Debugging
📦 16. Composer & Packages
- What is Composer?
- Installing libraries
- Autoloading
🧩 17. MVC Architecture
- What is MVC?
- Folder structure
- Basic MVC project
🚀 18. PHP Frameworks (Overview + Practice)
- Laravel (Most Important 🔥)
- CodeIgniter
- Symfony (advanced)
🛠️ 19. Advanced Topics
- RESTful API Development
- Authentication (JWT, Sessions)
- Middleware
- Dependency Injection
📊 20. Performance Optimization
- Caching
- OPcache
- Code optimization
🌍 21. Deployment
- Hosting (Shared / VPS)
- Domain setup
- cPanel basics
- Git deployment
💼 Final Projects (Very Important 🚀)
Build these for portfolio:
- Blog CMS (like WordPress basic)
- Login/Register system
- E-commerce website
- REST API (CRUD)
- File upload system
- Admin dashboard
- URL shortener
- Chat system (AJAX + PHP)
📅 Suggested Learning Plan
- Week 1–2 → Basics + Control
- Week 3 → Functions + Arrays
- Week 4 → Forms + Sessions
- Week 5 → MySQL + CRUD
- Week 6 → OOP + Security
- Week 7 → API + Advanced
- Week 8 → Final Projects
🔥 Pro Tips (Important)
- Practice daily (coding > theory)
- Build projects early
- Focus on security + database
- Learn Laravel after core PHP
