Lessons / Courses

Beginner

1. Net Ninja's PHP (& MySQL) YouTube Series

A free 42-video PHP (and MySQL) series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Mar 14, 2019.

2. Derek Banas's PHP YouTube Tutorial

A free 1-video PHP Tutorial created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Video uploaded on Dec 9, 2019.

3. Dani Krossing's (formerly mmtuts) PHP YouTube Tutorial Series (Updated)

A free 15-video PHP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Aug 26, 2020.

4. Educative - Learn PHP from Scratch (free course)

A free 71-lesson (video-free) PHP course.

5. Code With Dary's PHP For Beginners 2020 YouTube Tutorial Series)

A free 63-video PHP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Jun 6, 2020.

Intermediate

1. PHP The Right Way

PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP popular coding standards, links to authoritative tutorials around the Web and what the contributors consider to be best practices at the present time.

2. Net Ninja's PHP OOP (Object Oriented) YouTube Series

A free 14-video PHP OOP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Oct 21, 2019.

3. Dani Krossing's (formerly mmtuts) PHP OOP (Object Oriented) YouTube Tutorial Series (Updated)

A free 18-video PHP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Dec 08, 2019.

4. Laracasts

A video-based paid-membership site (you can find plenty of free videos though) featuring dozens of PHP-related courses. Topics include PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony); testing (Cyrpress, PHPUnit); tooling (PHPStorm, Laravel Forge); and more. Most are intermediate to advanced level.

5. Code With Dary's Object-Oriented PHP For Beginners 2020 YouTube Tutorial Series

A free 15-video PHP series created by an established YouTuber & course creator. Last updated on Dec 7, 2020.

6. freeCodeCamp's Use PHP to Create an MVC YouTube Tutorial

Get an understanding of how frameworks are made with this free 6-hour tutorial. The framework you build is not production-ready.

Books

1. Learn PHP in One Day and Learn It Well. PHP for Beginners with Hands-on Project. (Learn Coding Fast with Hands-On Project Book 6)

An easy to read book for absolute beginners to PHP who want to understand this language in a short amount of time. It starts from explaining what PHP is and goes into subjects like PHP data types, loops, etc. At the end, it guides you through a hands-on project by using everything that you have learned.