#Outline of possible topics to cover
Not in any specific order. Topics for which at least some writing is done are marked with *.
- Intro *
- Getting PHP *
- Hello World *
- Http *
- Variables *
- Arrays *
- Functions *
- Classes *
- Loading other files (require_once and / or using composer autoloader) - including namespaces *
- Databases (PDO with SQLite) *
- Testing (PHPUnit) *
- Static analysis (Psalm) *
- Templating (e.g. twig) *
- How to learn / do more with PHP after tutorial (including links to frameworks, official docs, php weekly / annotated etc) *
Full list of keywords from https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.keywords.php
Some keywords should be introduced by this tutorial (yes), some should be left out as not necessary for a beginning PHP developer, and some should be assumed known from JS/TS or other languages.
| Keyword | Introduce (yes/no/assume/?) |
|---|---|
| __halt_compiler() | No |
| abstract | No |
| and | No |
| array() | No |
| as | Yes |
| break | ? |
| callable (as of PHP 5.4) | ? |
| case | No |
| catch | Yes |
| class | Yes |
| clone | ? |
| const | Yes |
| continue | ? |
| declare | Yes |
| default | ? |
| die() | ? |
| do | No |
| echo | Yes |
| else | assume |
| elseif | no |
| empty() | ? |
| enddeclare | no |
| endfor | no |
| endforeach | no |
| endif | no |
| endswitch | no |
| endwhile | no |
| eval() | no |
| exit() | no |
| extends | Yes (?) |
| final | Yes |
| finally (as of PHP 5.5) | no |
| for | no |
| foreach | yes |
| function | yes |
| global | no |
| goto (as of PHP 5.3) | no |
| if | assume |
| implements | yes |
| include | no |
| include_once | no |
| instanceof | no |
| insteadof (as of PHP 5.4) | no |
| interface | yes |
| isset() | no |
| list() | no |
| namespace (as of PHP 5.3) | yes |
| new | yes |
| or | no |
| no | |
| private | yes |
| protected | no |
| public | yes |
| require | no |
| require_once | yes (at least to require vendor/autoload.php ) |
| return | assume |
| static | yes |
| switch | no / assume |
| throw | yes |
| trait (as of PHP 5.4) | no |
| try | yes |
| unset() | no |
| use | ? |
| var | no |
| while | no |
| xor | no |
| yield (as of PHP 5.5) | no |
| yield from (as of PHP 7.0) | no |