Tips and tricks for Junior PHP Web Developers

(last updated 04 Oct 2020)

Here ill shares some simple tips and tricks that I’ve learned as a Junior PHP Web Developer. And the list will be updated.

First of all – everyone learns in their own way. Find yours. By watching videos, reading, or doing tutorials. Check my list with favorite learning sources and links for PHP Web Developers.

Important – Don’t forget to use your favorite OS and Software/Stack. I chose for web development environment Linux Kubuntu/LAMP and most shares will be related to them. Some are easy to reimplement in Windows or Mac.

Table of Contents

1. Learn and Use the Console/Terminal for daily work

Refine how to display the Apache error log with a simple command – link
Or How to use the Apache error log for debug – link
Check your free disk space from a console in human mode
```
df -h
```
Check your free disk space from a console in Treesize style
```
sudo du -chd 1 | sort -hr
```
Add your daily long-boring commands to your console with editing the bashrc file – Read my article here
Use Git with GitHub or GitLab
create a new folder with non-existing parent directories path with a simple “-p” parameter. dir1, dir2, and dir3 will be created automatically
```
mkdir -p /dir1/dir2/dir3/newDir
```

2. Few simple tricks when working with MySQL

Link to the related page

3. Tricks learned for JavaScript

how to trim the px from a string if you need to calculate HTML widths or heights
```
parseInt('200px'); // results 200
```