Inside programmer’s mind – How to build a custom web site with php
Today will be a little different. I’m going to show you how to build a custom web site with php.
I know I usually talk about generating income online and the strateggies, techniques and tools you need to learn.
Of course, you don’t need to learn PHP or how to build a custom web site with php to do that.
Where to start?
The first thing you need to do to learn how to build a custom web site with php is obvious.
You need to learn php.
There are lots of tutorials online to learn that and I can’t cover that here.
The next thing you need is a place to host your code.
Again, there are many options for that and you can find something that works for you.
Once you have a place to host your php code, you can start coding.
What setup do I have?
I’ve created multiple web sites using PHP and the most recent that I’m focusing on these days is Click eCourse.
I use a LAMP platform which means:
- A Linux hosting server
- Apache as the web server
- MySQL as the backend database
- PHP as the backend code
I also have other infrastructure stuff that helps in giving customers like you on Click eCourse such as:
- Hosted physical servers on OVH
- VMWare ESX running on those servers
- Docker images with various components
- Gitea to host the code
- Jenkins to bundle the code into docker images and deploy them
- Selenum tests to verify the images can be deployed in production
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