As you can imagine, there is more to be learned about Web Technologies then we are able to cover during this course.
Modern web applications make heavy use of JavaScript to obtain high user interactivity. This course skipped the user side interactivity via JavaScript because in order to create a JavaScript application you need to know about HTML and CSS for the frontend and a serverside language to create the backend. Although JavaScript (nodejs) is used more and more as the serverside backend, PHP is still the more broadly used language…
It can become quite cumbersome to (re)create base styles from scratch. This is an issue many developers run into and for this purpose CSS frameworks where created. These frameworks ensure an identifiable style uniform across browsers. They also aid in responsive design etc…
Some popular choices:
Build fast, responsive sites with Bootstrap
Quickly design and customize responsive mobile-first sites with Bootstrap, the world’s most popular front-end open source toolkit, featuring Sass variables and mixins, responsive grid system, extensive prebuilt components, and powerful JavaScript plugins.
Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
A utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup.
Bulma: the modern CSS framework that just works.
Bulma is a free, open source framework that provides ready-to-use frontend components that you can easily combine to build responsive web interfaces.
Many PHP applications also share common functionality: user authentication, receiving, sanitizing and processing data etc.
To prevent developers of reinventing the wheel over and over again, PHP frameworks where created.
The PHP Framework for Web Artisans
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework for web projects
The standard foundation on which the best PHP applications are built. Choose any of the 50 stand-alone components available for your own applications.
Speed up the creation and maintenance of your PHP web applications. End repetitive coding tasks and enjoy the power of controlling your code.