Many web developers consider PHP as a second class language. The truth is, as DHH puts it: "You can build the best web application in the world with any language you want". We are here not to start a religious war but to help beginner PHP developers get better. Here is the some of the best advice from season PHP programmers.

First steps

1. Get into the habit of commenting your code thoroughly from the outset, your future self will thank you https://www.phpdoc.org/
2. Ignore any online tutorials, stack-overflow solutions or any other PHP code snippets on the internet that are older than 3 or 4 years (use Google's advanced search date tools to filter out older content). PHP had evolved dramatically in the last few years, and much of what is out there is wrong, insecure and bad practice.
   
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Pretty often you need to run a couple of queries against your MySQL database on the client's web server. Usually phpMyAdmin does the job well but there are situations when you just need to upload something to the server and open in the borwser, without any configuration steps.

Welcome Bike, lightweight phpMyAdmin replacement. If you already have a CMS installed on the web server (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla), simply upload Bike to CMS's subfolder and open it in the browser.

Wow, Yet another upload plugin! What makes it different?

• It's new. Supports all modern technologies.
• It's good looking and works out of the box. Based on Bootstrap and Glyphicons icons.
• Cross domain upload, client size images resing.
• Supports multiple platforms (PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, Node.js, etc)