This week I decided to learn a bit of PHP. Why? - for a few reasons but mainly to continue on the path of self-learning. From what I have read on tech blogs it is beginner-friendly and has a gradual path for improvement as you get more experienced with it. Also, I enjoyed the Object Oriented Programming aspect of Ruby so I thought I should give it a go.

I’ve mostly been picking up on entry level code this week, I am following along a Free Code Camp tutorial to get an overall view quickly so I can move onto the more interesting parts of what the language can do.

The set up was fairly straightforward following the docs on the PHP website and so far I’m using the CLI with its built in web server and Sublime as the IDE to get started.

The links I used can be found here:

• PHP getting started: https://www.php.net/manual/en/getting-started.php
• PHP and the built-in web server: https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php
• Free Code Camp tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_JCtrrv-c