Suggestron project in PHP

• from the course / tutorial: PHPBridge: Intro To PHP
• original web page is not available, only cached one
• url from cached pages: PHPBridge: Intro To PHP by web archive
• Thank you to web archive.org

Goals

• relearning the fundaments of vanilla PHP
• improved original code by using modern PHP (8.1+) like strict types, type hinting, etc
• Using Composer tool for autoloading internal dependencies
• Using Docker to create the development environment
• To better developement it is taked advantages of this two wonderfull vscode extensions:
  • Docker (By Microsoft): to manage docker containers in vs code
  • Dev Containers (By Microsoft): to use vscode inside of the container.

Editor and Recommend extensions (Beside mention on goals section)

• Editor: VS Code (By Microsoft)

• PHP Intelephense (By Ben Mewburn)

• PHP Namespace Resolver (By Mehedi Hassan)

• PHP Awesome Snippets (By HakCorp)

How this project is organized

• this project is organized similar to original website
• each chapter is a git branch, with its own CH*.md file with some steps and notes
• the expections are CH1 and CH2 that stay at main branch

Differences between original and this project

• the original was setup with Vagrant tool, this will use Docker
• The lastest chapter will include some code improvements / refactors
• Composer configuration will be included

PHP and DB

• PHP: 8.1
• DB: MySQL 8

CSS framework

• Tailwind css

one of the forks from of original ( with original code)

https://github.com/neoln/suggestotron

Notes

• to run this code DOCKER is not required, with this tools would be enough: XAMP, WAMP, MAMP, etc.
• Docker compose is not used here, since it is a simple and educational goals project
• if you are using MySQL as simple container, don't forget to verify the ip address

Images:

original:

Improved:

• index / main page:

• edit page: