Projects in PHP and MySQL (Udemy.com)

The course explores useful PHP Projects in an in-depth manner, which a lot of tutorials online don't do. The concepts in these projects are quite holistic, and can be applied to any kind of project you'd want to do in PHP. My only criticism of this course is the amount of copy-pasting, although it is quite understandable why the instructor chooses to do this. Overall, even though I'm writing this review halfway through finishing the course, I am thoroughly enjoying what the instructor has to offer. Great course!

Very detailed and quality teaching.

Can only learn and develop skills from such a course.

Thanks.

WoW, this course is amazing, all the information and many other stuffs provided were very useful, and make me really happy to know a completely new thing instantly in every video...!!!

The course is OK overall. It gives a good idea about how to proceed with PHP-based projects.

The production quality could've been better though. Plus, I don't think that completing this course will prepare one to start creating production grade web applications.

The main issue with this course is as the projects get more complex, if you make a mistake you are often stuck figuring it out on your own. The instructor will reply "Have you compared your code to my code" to almost every question. Reading through the QA I can say support is pretty bad, often with the instructor never replying to a student.

The other main issue is that this course does not really explain the "why" behind much of what you are doing. If you take the time to read the docs and other online help boards you can generally figure out what something does but it isn't always apperent off the bat. The course claims you only need a basic understanding of PHP and HTML but I think that unless you already have solid HTML/CSS skills, and a grasp on OOP concepts you might struggle if you have never coded in another language.

That being said, there is a lot of good info, projects scale up in complexity well. I personally like the teaching style, and it's good to see the mistakes as they happen and watch the process for figuring out how to fix them. I would recommend this if you have a basic grasp on PHP, solid HTML/CSS skills, and know (at least conceptually) about OOP and are looking to see how it all comes together to make real web apps.

Yes, until now the course is as I have expected.

On the plus side, I like the whole 'projects-oriented' approach. I like the teaching style and usually, Brad explains even complex things in an easy way. And for the first time, someone explained the object-oriented programming in a way that I could relate to, including the use of constructors etc.

I also like the fact that he starts with the design of his project (the bare html - the UI) and then goes into the inner functioning (data handling, processing etc)

I would have given a higher rating if it wasn't for the following:

- No documentation, no outline: it would be nice to have a brief intro and outline (with the basic steps) at the beginning of each project in a powerpoint or similar worksheet to be able to refer back to, not just spoken text!

- Brad promises several times to use a proper IDE instead of Notepad++ (which I do like, but is not suitable for more complex projects); he promises but never fulfills.

- This would also have prevented him from making those little, but time-consuming coding errors ...

But at the end of the day I have to admit that I still learned a lot - despite those shortcomings. The projects are a good incentive to dig deeper, to learn, to investigate (if something doesn't work at the first try) and to improve and add more features.

Lots of copy and paste. Some high points but there is definitely an issue if the course is about learning by doing not learning by copying.

Pretty good material. I wish the instructor would type out the code, instead of copy and pasting it. Also it would be nice if Udemy provided incentives to their material creators to update the course material or remove it.

Great course to get started in PHP and MySql. ELS has a great way of teaching by starting out with the basics and gradually working there way up to more advanced OOP PHP i would recommend this course if you were always wanted to know how to use php and mysql

Bootstrap, Foundation, WordPress, CakePHP, CodeIgniter... all here in practical projects to learn from.

it kinda expert course since you must have prior knowledge to the subjects or you won't understand what's going on. Anyway I learnt a lot from it