PHP is an unfairly underrated language, but here at DEV, we have yet some great resources about it.
It's not so easy to find them out, because PHP don't have a big audience and related posts get drown among many other (JS) posts, but nevertheless, some of them reached a pretty high quality.

🏗 Bootstrapping

It can be difficult for newcomers to know where to start a new PHP project. If you want to give a try to the Slim micro-framework, have a loot at @charliedevelops 's following post:

Getting started with Slim PHP framework by building a very simple MVC/OOP app

charliedeveloper ・ Jun 29 '18 ・ 4 min read

#webdev #beginners #php #tutorial

✅ Clean code

A great post about some clean code rules in PHP, with great screenshots:

A month of clean code

Jason McCreary ・ Nov 10 '17 ・ 3 min read

#programming #practices #refactoring #php

Some other clean code rules, applied to a concrete example:

Writing Beautiful Code

Andrew Davis ・ Sep 24 '18 ・ 4 min read

#webdev #productivity #php

A very detailed article about clean architecture and design patterns:

Cleaning up your codebase with a clean architecture

Barry O Sullivan ・ May 15 '17 ・ 9 min read

#cleancode #layeredarchitecture #php #design

🚥 Quality

I wrote the following post to show dev how to check the quality of PHP code by using 3 static analysis tools (phpcs, phpmd & php-cs-fixer):

🚥 How to Write Clean Code in PHP 🐘

Boris Jamot ✊ / ・ Aug 31 '18 ・ 9 min read

#cleancode #tools #codingstyle #php

The next article shows how to automate everything with the editor, composer, git & the CI/CD pipeline:

🚥 How to Automate Code Quality Checks in your Workflow? ⚙

Boris Jamot ✊ / ・ Sep 10 '18 ・ 8 min read

#git #automation #cleancode #bash

☑️ Tests

How to design your code to be able to unit test everything:

🐘 Unit Tests in PHP

Boris Jamot ✊ / ・ Jan 15 '19 ・ 4 min read

#php #testing #showdev #codequality

Not so specific to PHP, but still interesting:

Fake it by stubbing the mock, dummy

Jason McCreary ・ Nov 14 '17 ・ 3 min read

#testing #php

Because unit tests are never enough, we need acceptance tests. Here is a simple way to test an HTTP API as a black box:

Acceptance testing your PHP app with ease

Barry O Sullivan ・ Apr 23 '18 ・ 5 min read

#tdd #php #acceptancetests

🔒 Security

It's well known that misusing PHP can lead to serious security breaches. The following resources will be a great introduction for people who care about security (who doesn't?):

PHP Security: Introduction

dewbiez ・ Sep 20 '18 ・ 1 min read

#php #security

5 rules to secure your PHP application:

Security Tips for a PHP Application

Andrew Davis ・ Aug 7 '18 ・ 3 min read

#php #security

🛠 Tooling

The best tool in PHP world is unquestionably composer. Number of its features are often unknown. It's not only a dependency manager. Let's have a look at its possibilities:

What, why and how of PHP Composer

Gaurav Makhecha ・ Jun 14 '18 ・ 8 min read

#php #laravel #composer

@david_j_eddy introduces 5 essential tools every PHP developers should use:

5 PHP Tools to make your life more enjoyable.

David J Eddy ・ Aug 2 '18 ・ 4 min read

#php #tool #productivity #codequality

If you ever tasted the pleasure of debugging, then you know you can't do without. Thanks to @brpaz , you'll now know how make all the things work together:

Docker, PHPStorm and Xdebug, The definitive guide

Bruno Paz ・ Sep 6 '18 ・ 4 min read

#docker #xdebug #phpstorm #php

This last tool has been developed by the author of the article, who can thus help you get started. It's a tool to quickly bootstrap a PHP project from scratch:

PHP project scaffolding (kickstarting) tool

Jitendra Adhikari ・ Aug 15 '18 ・ 1 min read

#showdev #php #productivity #automation

🚀 Other

Because we all know that reading books help us understanding the things more deeply, here is a list of suggested books about PHP:

My Favorite PHP books

Bruno Paz ・ Sep 23 '18 ・ 2 min read

#php #books

The PHP edition of the well known imposter syndrome:

Imposter Syndrome: PHP Edition

Andrew Davis ・ Nov 28 '17 ・ 2 min read

#php #impostersyndrome #webdev #career

Because such articles are very, very rare, and because I already found myself lost in the face of the lack of resources when « cloudifying » a PHP app, here is a great article about PHP with containers: