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15 Best PHP Courses for Beginners

We compared 15 PHP courses currently listed on Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.

Courses compared
15
Price range
$19.99 – $199.99
Providers
Udemy
Last updated
18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Udemy, matched to this topic by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.

The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.

There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    PHP From Scratch | Beginner To Advanced

    This course is broken up into two parts. First, we have seven learning modules to learn the fundamentals of PHP programming, including:Data Types & VariablesArrays & IterationControl Structures & Conditi...

    $49.99
    listed price
  2. 2
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Beginners Guide to Learning PHP 5

    Fast paced course perfect for beginners to learn the basics of writing PHP code.  Learn about variables, loops, functions, conditional statements and a whole lot more.  All the source code is included to get you started...

    $199.99
    listed price
  3. 3
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    PHP for Beginners: PDO, MySQL, phpMyAdmin

    Welcome to PHP, PDO and MySQL for Beginners!This course is intended for those who wish to develop their understanding and skills in PHP and MySQL in order to develop data driven websites.Every line of code is explained a...

    $44.99
    listed price
  4. 4
    Udemy Certificate Grade B Lowest price here

    Realtime Chat with Laravel-Livewire: Tall App from Scratch

    Take your development skills to the next level and master the art of building real-time chat applications with the cutting-edge technologies of Laravel, Livewire, and the powerful TALL-Stack (Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Lar...

    $19.99
    listed price
  5. 5
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    Build a Video Conference App from Scratch with PHP + WebRTC

    Hi, welcome to the course Build a Video Conference App from Scratch using WebRTC, PHP +JS. Webrtc and Websocket is combination of powerful technology where you will able to transfer data in real time with low latency. An...

    $99.99
    listed price
  6. 6
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    PHP OOP: Object Oriented Programming for beginners + Project

    Master PHP OOP with Hands-On Real-Life Projects: Propel Your Career with Edwin Diaz’s PHP OOP CourseIf you’re looking to elevate your PHP skills and break into the world of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Edwin Diaz’s...

    $199.99
    listed price
  7. 7
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Symfony 6 with Docker for beginners

    This  course is tailor-made for aspiring web developers keen on mastering the latest web development techniques using Docker and the Symfony PHP framework. This Docker and Symfony tutorial offers a systematic approa...

    $24.99
    listed price
  8. 8
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Symfony beginner guide with example project.

    This course will help you learn Symfony, the powerful PHP framework that would let you create not only websites but great web applications, APIs or mobile backends.Its latest version is the most powerful, yet simplest to...

    $19.99
    listed price
  9. 9
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    NGINX Fundamentals: High Performance Servers from Scratch

    Learn to install, configure and tweak NGINX to create secure, high performance web servers from scratch.Build a strong foundation in NGINX with this practical course suited to both beginners and the more experienced.Lear...

    $139.99
    listed price
  10. 10
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Fundamentals of Programming

    In this Fundamentals of Programming course you will learn in a basic and very complete way the most elementary notions about software development. This course will give a complete overview of all the most basic concepts...

    $199.99
    listed price
  11. 11
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Become a PHP Pro: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners 2024

    Welcome to the PHP for Beginners course, the perfect starting point for anyone looking to learn the ins and outs of PHP. This comprehensive course is designed to take you from absolute beginner to proficient PHP develope...

    $84.99
    listed price
  12. 12
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Learn Laravel 5.5 From Scratch

    We will be using version 5.5 of laravel, covering a couple of features, the easiest ones as we go, until you cope with the framework, then at last there will be a whole section which consists of all available features o...

    $129.99
    listed price
  13. 13
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Beginners - Learning Regular Expressions For Programmers

    Regular expressions are a powerful tool that can help you to find, replace and format text quickly, but they have a reputation of being extremely hard to understand. In this Regular Expressions training course, this cour...

    $49.99
    listed price
  14. 14
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Learn PHP Programming for Absolute Beginners

    PHP is an object oriented general purpose language suitable for a wide variety of tasks. In this course, we'll learn how to use PHP as a server-side scripting language for use in web development.The course consists...

    $34.99
    listed price
  15. 15
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    The Ultimate PHP OOP Crash Course for Beginners 2026

    Are you ready to take your PHP skills to the next level?This crash course is designed for PHP developers who understand the basics of the language and want to quickly dive into the powerful world of Object-Oriented Progr...

    $19.99
    listed price

Best PHP Courses for Beginners compared

Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.

What the prices here tell you

The 15 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.99 — a spread of $180.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.

Who is behind these courses

These courses come from Udemy. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick.

Before you enrol

Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.

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