HTML, CSS and PHP

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Resident PHP expert? Your too kind!!  I'm sure there more than a few PHP 
people on this list that can out pace me.  I'm just the most vocal.

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On 2024-07-02 14:12, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a question for our resident PHP expert Keith Smith, but others
> please feel free to chime in...
> 
> In what ways, if any, is knowledge of HTML and CSS valuable to a PHP
> programmer?
> 

I would say that a PHP developer must know the full stack. That does not 
mean that one needs to be an expert in all areas.

To answer your question a PHP developer MUST know how to integrate PHP 
in HTML.  That does not mean the PHP programmer needs to be an expert in 
HTML.

I think a PHP developer needs some basic knowledge of CSS. As a PHP 
developer I rarely create a template for a website.  I am not artistic 
in that way.  I've always worked with the design and what the designer 
provides.  Having said that I had to make some minor changes to the 
template (HTML/CSS).

This could be an entire white paper.

Here is my opinion.

There is too much to know to learn it all before beginning.

I suggest getting some familiarity with:

HTML (including making a template responsive)
CSS
Linux
Apache and / or Nginx
MySQL
PHP
JavaScript
AJAX

Add to this the developer should be using something like VirtualBox or 
Proxmox and be able to install a Linux server and install onto that a 
LAMP configuration.

The programmer needs to know a bit of networking and be able to 
configure a static IP on his/her VM and understand how to use the 
windows and Linux host file to create a local net for testing.  That 
includes using something like .local as a TLD.

That is my opinion.  I'd like to hear from others.

Keith
















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> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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