Please, the Bosses, check out my Forum website for my community @ www.peroland.com
Review it and tell me how to improve it. Thanks

gbutemu:
Please, the Bosses, check out my Forum website for my community @ www.peroland.com
Review it and tell me how to improve it. Thanks

it's same Nairaland template modified which makes it total trash.

If you must code, then you've to be innovative.

gbutemu:
Please, the Bosses, check out my Forum website for my community @ www.peroland.com
Review it and tell me how to improve it. Thanks

Didn't have time to check the functional and security part of it. But as for the interface and Graphics, please be creative. Aside that, it isn't easy, I pour water on your head. You are a true coder if you actually coded it. Cool

stanliwise:
Didn't have time to check the functional and security part of it. But as for the interface and Graphics, please be creative. Aside that, it isn't easy, I pour water on your head. You are a true coder if you actually coded it. Cool

Thanks, I used Bootstrap framework for the font-end while the back end I utilise PHP. Thanks, once again for your review.

skultrick:


it's same Nairaland template modified which makes it total trash.

If you must code, then you've to be innovative.

Thanks, boss for your review. But I used Bootstrap.... I didnt used any theme for the front-end.

gbutemu:
Please, the Bosses, check out my Forum website for my community @ www.peroland.com
Review it and tell me how to improve it. Thanks

Weldone. If you did all of that from scratch (with that thing...PHP) then you're ready to start learning real web development for the 2019 audience and market. I'm just going to drop the following skills you should acquire and where you can acquire most of them. Try not to learn everything at once, your engine will knock. Just take it nice and easy.

Languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript

Database Engines: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

ORMs/ODMs: ObjectionJS, Mongoose

Frontend Techs: ReactJS/Redux or Angular (I personally won't leave React for Angular but this is just an uninformed bias I have toward Angular so you can ignore it)

CSS Frameworks and Techs: Bootstrap, Materialize CSS, Tachyons (functional CSS), SASS

Backend Techs: RESTful API, NodeJS(with ExpressJS), GraphQL

Version Control: Git

Build Tools: Webpack

Testing: Mocha, Jest

Mobile Development: React Native

The best place to learn about any web technology is from the official documentation. If there are no official docs for a technology, I wont suggest you invest time in it at this stage (my opinion).
For the core langauges (HTML, CSS, Javascript), you can go from beginner to advanced by using the docs at Mozilla Developer Network (aka MDN). Check it out here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn
Another good resource to learn most things is https://jstherightway.org
At some point in your learning process, attempt the books "You don't know JS" and "Eloquent Javascript". I said "attempt" because those books will chew you and spit you out the first couple of times but don't give up.

For any other thing you want to learn, Google it.

Also youtube, spend time on youtube and subscribe to the following youtube channels
1. traversy (this guy teaches you stuff like he knew you personally and you two are just gisting)
2. academind (this guy teaches you deep concepts easily)
3. techsith (this is my favorite. I cant even describe his methods)
4. funfunfunctions (my least favorite, he talks like he's always high so its hard to watch and focus)


Yes, PHP is not on the list, no its not a mistake. Yes the exclusion of PHP is very opinionated but I've spent the past 2-3 years gathering and working with the skills I've listed above (still gathering) and cursing the 11 years I spent working professionally with PHP.

Sorry for the long post. I took my time to write all of these because you're kinda rare. Its been a while I've seen anyone build anything from scratch here and be proud of it... most of the people here just flirt with Wordpress and Laravel and kaboom .... "build your website for 15k".

P.S: All the resources I have listed above are free. In this journey, you'll be spending more of your time and data bandwidth.
In the list, apart from the Languages, every other thing boils down to your personal preference. So if I had to start learning today, I would focus on mastering HTML, CSS and Javascript and then see what stack of technologies I am comfortable with learning and working with, afterwards.

@DualCore1 what is your regret in using PHP?

stanliwise:
@DualCore1 what is your regret in using PHP?

I won't really call it regrets. I've just moved on to something that works better, Javascript. I've used Javascript for as long as I've used PHP but I mostly used the Web APIs part of JS until a few years back.

The single most important reason why I have chosen JS over PHP is because JS can be used both on the frontend and backend for modern web development. I would rather focus my resources mastering one language that can kill both frontend and backend than having to master JS for the frontend (React, Angular, Vue) and PHP for the backend. Things can get confusing when you start to mix up JS and PHP syntax when working on both frontend and backend areas of the same project concurrently.

With JS, everyday, something new comes out, some tool (e.g an NPM package), some framework etc. While it will be a bad idea to just jump on everything that comes out, it gives one a wide array of options to choose from. I also love the NPM library and the ability to publish your own JS NPM packages and have other people use it and also contribute to it. Overall there's just so much life and buzz in the JS ecosystem now and I don't see that happening with PHP. This can change anytime, it could be something else tomorrow. One just has to go with the times.

So I won't say I regret using PHP, I appreciate the exposure it gave me. However, I think its glory days are over. PHP is a nice-to-have skill if one has it already but it isn't a skill I will recommend anyone to start learning at this time.

All of this is my opinion based on how I like to think and work. Someone else could be on the flip side of the coin and love PHP for his own reasons.

DualCore1:

I won't really call it regrets. I've just moved on to something that works better, Javascript. I've used Javascript for as long as I've used PHP but I mostly used the Web APIs part of JS until a few years back.

The single most important reason why I have chosen JS over PHP is because JS can be used both on the frontend and backend for modern web development. I would rather focus my resources mastering one language that can kill both frontend and backend than having to master JS for the frontend (React, Angular, Vue) and PHP for the backend. Things can get confusing when you start to mix up JS and PHP syntax when working on both frontend and backend areas of the same project concurrently.

With JS, everyday, something new comes out, some tool (e.g an NPM package), some framework etc. While it will be a bad idea to just jump on everything that comes out, it gives one a wide array of options to choose from. I also love the NPM library and the ability to publish your own JS NPM packages and have other people use it and also contribute to it. Overall there's just so much life and buzz in the JS ecosystem now and I don't see that happening with PHP. This can change anytime, it could be something else tomorrow. One just has to go with the times.

So I won't say I regret using PHP, I appreciate the exposure it gave me. However, I think its glory days are over. PHP is a nice-to-have skill if one has it already but it isn't a skill I will recommend anyone to start learning at this time.

All of this is my opinion based on how I like to think and work. Someone else could be on the flip side of the coin and love PHP for his own reasons.

yeah someone else like me. I just feel maybe JavaScript appeal better to you instinctively though, because much newer features are now on php, beside I hope you know of php composer for dependency management just like NPM?
Php 7 now support more better type hinting, you can now use closure call() on php like Js, Also php now support return type declaration(meaning you can define what would be returned), session Option and even many more.
beside PHP has one of the most powerful web framework, laravel.
I think you just lost interest in PHP but the amazing thing is Altleast you're happy doing JS

stanliwise:
yeah someone else like me. I just feel maybe JavaScript appeal better to you instinctively though, because much newer features are now on php, beside I hope you know of php composer for dependency management just like NPM?
Php 7 now support more better type hinting, you can now use closure call() on php like Js, Also php now support return type declaration(meaning you can define what would be returned), session Option and even many more.
beside PHP has one of the most powerful web framework, laravel.
I think you just lost interest in PHP but the amazing thing is Altleast you're happy doing JS

Yes, that's basically it. I lost interest in PHP cuz JS worked better for my workflow. I am aware of composer, the other things are new to me and its nice to know PHP is going somewhere. I'm just sold out on JS and its frontend/backend dual appeal.

DualCore1:

Yes, that's basically it. I lost interest in PHP cuz JS worked better for my workflow. I am aware of composer, the other things are new to me and its nice to know PHP is going somewhere. I'm just sold out on JS and its frontend/backend dual appeal.

Hi. Pls can I send you a DM?

IyawoToBe:


Hi. Pls can I send you a DM?

Yes, you can