Some examples of hobby projects for oop-php training

Question

Does anyone have any suggestions for good hobby projects - specifically for learning oop with php.

I am already pretty comfortable with php and oop, but I want to really take things a notch and get some good knowledge. The problem is that I can’t come up with a decent enough project that will satisfy the above + be useful for adding to cv / portfolio.

Any project ideas, including JavaScript, would also be good.

Answer 1

How about writing your own MVC framework? There shouldn't be anything huge, but you could explore other frameworks there and choose the bits you like best, and then create your own.

If motivation is for learning and you are programming in php, then a project that will give you a deep perspective on how MVC functions function can only be useful to you.

It is also the type of project you can always rely on.

Answer 2

Try a payroll system with different types of employees having different types of payment (monthly, hourly) and a system in which you need to display a list of employees or data for different media, for example, on the screen (via AJAX), on a printer and browser without using AJAX.

Answer 3

You can:

• contribute to an existing project: learn oop by example
• start your own project: find what you really like and for which no existing software satisfies you. Try creating your own javascript (i.e. Ajax to communicate with php to serve content).

For example, I made a site to manage my comic book collection, and then I distributed the code to others. Perhaps this code was too general, too complex for this basic task, but I learned a lot along the way.