Developer career roadmap
PHP Backend Developer Roadmap
Build modern PHP and Laravel applications with SQL, APIs, testing, security, and production deployment.
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Dependency-aware sequence
PHP Backend Developer Roadmap
- 1
Programming Foundations
Understand how programs process data, make decisions, repeat work, organize logic, and report errors, then build and debug a command-line application.
- 2
Command Line and Shell Essentials
Navigate files, run programs, combine commands, manage environment variables, and write safe shell scripts across major operating systems.
- 3
Git and GitHub
Track changes, create focused commits, work safely with branches, collaborate through pull requests, and recover from routine Git mistakes.
- 4
HTML and CSS Foundations
Build accessible, responsive, and maintainable web pages with semantic HTML, modern CSS layouts, reusable components, and reliable forms.
- 5
PHP Fundamentals
Write, organize, debug, and test PHP programs that process input, work with arrays and files, handle web requests, use sessions, and access a database.
- 6
SQL and Relational Databases
Design a relational schema, write reliable queries, update data safely, use transactions, and diagnose common correctness and performance problems.
- 7
HTTP and APIs
Trace HTTP requests and responses, use common methods and status codes, work with JSON APIs, handle authentication, and diagnose communication failures.
- 8
Modern PHP Web Development
Build a framework-free PHP web application with Composer, routing, controllers, templates, PDO, authentication, validation, testing, and secure configuration.
- 9
Laravel Development
Build, test, secure, and deploy a database-backed Laravel application using routing, Blade, Eloquent, validation, authorization, queues, and APIs.
Project ladder
Projects to Build
Stage 1
Foundation project
Build evidence that combines the skills from the roadmap stages you have completed.
Stage 2
Specialization project
Build evidence that combines the skills from the roadmap stages you have completed.
Stage 3
Portfolio capstone
Build evidence that combines the skills from the roadmap stages you have completed.
Extend your capability
Recommended Specializations
Software Testing Fundamentals
Design useful tests, separate unit and integration concerns, test error behavior, recognize unreliable tests, and create a balanced test strategy.
Secure Coding Fundamentals
Identify trust boundaries, validate untrusted input, protect credentials, apply authentication and authorization safely, and reduce common risks.
Docker and Containers
Build, run, secure, debug, connect, persist, test, and distribute containerized applications and multi-service development environments.
Continuous Integration and Delivery
Build secure, testable, versioned, observable, and recoverable pipelines for software integration, artifacts, releases, deployments, and rollback.