75-Day Detailed PHP + Laravel Roadmap

🔹 PHASE 1: PHP FUNDAMENTALS (Day 1–25)

Goal: Learn core PHP syntax, programming logic, and basic MySQL interaction.

📍 Week 1 (Day 1–7): PHP Basics

• ✅ Topics:

  • Syntax & structure

  • Variables, constants, data types

  • Operators, conditionals

  • Echo, print, comments

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Create a calculator

  • Practice conditional logic (if/else/switch)

• 📌 Deliverable: Basic console app with user input

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📍 Week 2 (Day 8–14): Arrays, Loops, Functions

• ✅ Topics:

  • Indexed & associative arrays

  • For, while, foreach loops

  • Functions (custom and built-in)

  • Superglobals: $_GET, $_POST, $_SERVER

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Build a quiz app using forms

  • Array manipulation & loop challenges

• 📌 Deliverable: Form-based quiz or BMI calculator

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📍 Week 3 (Day 15–21): Files, Sessions, Forms

• ✅ Topics:

  • File upload, read/write

  • Sessions vs cookies

  • Error handling (try, catch, error_reporting)

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Login system using sessions

  • File upload form

• 📌 Deliverable: Simple file manager and login system

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📍 Week 4 (Day 22–25): PHP + MySQL

• ✅ Topics:

  • MySQL basic queries (CRUD)

  • Connect with MySQLi / PDO

  • Prepared statements

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Create a guestbook or task list

• 📌 Deliverable: A simple dynamic CRUD app

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🔹 PHASE 2: OOP & MVC IN PHP (Day 26–35)

Goal: Understand OOP principles and build a mini MVC framework

📍 Day 26–30: Object-Oriented PHP

• ✅ Topics:

  • Classes, objects

  • Properties, methods

  • Inheritance, interfaces, abstract classes

  • Namespaces & autoloading (Composer)

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Build a class-based blog or product catalog

• 📌 Deliverable: OOP CRUD with classes

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📍 Day 31–35: Build Simple MVC Framework

• ✅ Topics:

  • MVC pattern explained

  • Routing system in PHP

  • Controllers, Models, Views

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Build a mini MVC project

• 📌 Deliverable: Basic MVC project (like a note-taking app)

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🔹 PHASE 3: LARAVEL BASICS (Day 36–50)

Goal: Set up Laravel and build basic web functionality using framework conventions

📍 Day 36–40: Laravel Setup & Routing

• ✅ Topics:

  • Laravel installation (via Composer)

  • Artisan CLI, project structure

  • Web routes & views

  • Blade templating

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Create simple static pages

• 📌 Deliverable: Laravel welcome site with 3-5 pages

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📍 Day 41–45: Laravel Core (MVC in Laravel)

• ✅ Topics:

  • Controllers & Views

  • Models, Migrations

  • Eloquent ORM basics

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Create blog or task list

  • DB seeding with dummy data

• 📌 Deliverable: CRUD app using Laravel MVC

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📍 Day 46–50: Forms, Middleware, Auth

• ✅ Topics:

  • Form validation

  • Middleware basics (e.g. auth)

  • Authentication with Laravel Breeze

• 🛠 Practice:

  • User login/register system

  • Create protected routes

• 📌 Deliverable: Login-protected blog or dashboard

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🔹 PHASE 4: ADVANCED LARAVEL (Day 51–65)

Goal: Build mini projects & learn advanced features

📍 Day 51–55: Eloquent Relationships + File Uploads

• ✅ Topics:

  • One-to-many, many-to-many

  • Eager loading, lazy loading

  • File/image uploads

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Blog with categories & comments

• 📌 Deliverable: Blog system with image upload and comment threads

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📍 Day 56–60: Laravel API + Testing

• ✅ Topics:

  • RESTful API routes

  • Laravel Resource controllers

  • Basic PHPUnit testing

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Build a REST API for a task manager

• 📌 Deliverable: JSON API with CRUD support

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📍 Day 61–65: Tools & Laravel Magic

• ✅ Topics:

  • Artisan commands, Tinker

  • Events, Queues, Jobs (overview)

  • Service providers, facades (briefly)

• 🛠 Practice:

  • Play with Artisan & Tinker

• 📌 Deliverable: Custom Artisan command + event trigger

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🔹 PHASE 5: FINAL PROJECT & DEPLOYMENT (Day 66–75)

Goal: Build, host, and present a professional Laravel app

📍 Day 66–70: Capstone Project (Build)

• 🛠 Choose Project Idea:

  • Blog, Portfolio CMS, Event Manager, Inventory App

• ✅ Steps:

  • Design schema

  • Plan routes, roles, views

  • Use Eloquent, Auth, Validation, File upload

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📍 Day 71–73: Final Polish + Git

• ✅ Topics:

  • Code cleanup, optimization

  • Push to GitHub

  • Add README & documentation

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📍 Day 74–75: Deploy

• ✅ Use platforms like:

  • Render.com, Heroku, or shared hosting

• 📌 Deliverable: Live link + GitHub repo

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🧩 Optional Tools to Use:

• Trello or Notion to track daily tasks

• Postman for testing APIs

• GitHub for version control

• PHPStorm / VS Code with Laravel extensions

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✅ Final Outcome:

By the end of 75 days, you’ll have:

• A solid grip on PHP and OOP

• Real Laravel project experience

• A live hosted web app

• GitHub portfolio with code