Tools and Resources

Tools

• HFC GitLab - HFC-hosted Git code management.
• Microsoft Teams - Collaboration and Messaging.

Documentation

• PHP Versions - lists the changes in recent PHP versions. For Fall 2025, we will use the current PHP 8.4 release. (The cislinux.hfcc.edu server currently uses PHP 8.3.)
• Symfony Documentation - full documentation for the Symfony framework.
• Twig Documentation - an online reference to the Twig template engine for PHP.
• JSON:API Specification - defines documentation on formatting API responses. We are mostly focused on section 7.1 which defines the top level of the response.
• JSON Web Tokens (JWT) - debugger and documentation for simple and secure authentication tokens.

Training and Tutorials

• PHP & MYSQL textbook extras - Supplemental info from the publisher.
• Linode Library - Guides and Tutorials for Linux server admins.
• Digital Ocean Tutorials - Guides and Tutorials for Linux server admins.
• Learn Symfony - A lightweight but powerful framework for PHP applications.
• Treehouse - Learn from over 1000 videos on web design, coding, business, and much more.