Free PHP Courses

PHP still runs a large share of the web (WordPress alone is a big reason), so it stays a practical language to learn even though it's fallen out of fashion in beginner circles. Both free courses here come from freeCodeCamp. Start with The PHP Handbook, an eight-hour written tutorial that covers syntax, forms, and working with a database, enough to build a basic dynamic site. From there, Learn Laravel by Building a Medium Clone jumps into the framework most modern PHP jobs actually use: you build a working blog-style app and pick up routing, migrations, and authentication along the way. One honest note: this is a two-course catalog, so plan to lean on Laravel's own documentation once you finish, since these get you started but not all the way to job-ready on their own.