Alright, you have reached the end of my (our) basic tutorial. Congrats!
Take a moment to appreciate what you’ve learned:
You now understand the building blocks that frameworks are made of. When you do use a framework, you’ll appreciate what it’s doing under the hood.
Up until this point, everything you went through was just a modern rewrite of Patrick’s original 12 markdown long tutorial with some changes including newer chapters, different packages, etc. I also skipped a few chapters I did not think was so important.
And this is all I wanted to teach you, how to approach PHP development without frameworks by using pre-existing packages on packagist/composer.
But this isn’t really the end, if you don’t want it to. Because I have added two more tutorials (Chk Chk, both are free, don’t worry; no paywalls 🤑) . The other two tutorials are far more advanced and heart wrenching if you are a beginner.
But leaving after having completed the basic tutorial is fine too. Go build something with what you’ve learned!
You can read the advanced tutorial here if you feel like Tom Cruise on a Mission Impossible. Or, go to Refactoring Tutorial first.
Remember: The best way to solidify this knowledge is to build something. Start small, but start building.
Have fun!