Hey @connor1231, thanks for the reply! That's awesome to hear and you brought up great points. I do use AI a lot to help me learn and grok concepts. I'm a seasoned front-end developer with PHP experience as it related to WP when we used to build custom themes. But, I really want to understand the how's and why's of PHP. Thanks for the encouragement!

I know I'm not the OP but thought i'd help. I went through the path here - https://laracasts.com/path which includes PHP for Beginners, PHP Object Oritented Programming and Javascript before moving onto the Laravel 2026 Course. Trust me its worth your time to understand how under the hood PHP works. If you have a basic understanding of php already I'd still do the Object Oritented programming course as it will build on it

I self-taught PHP and have built various systems, even I learnt a lot from the above courses.

I'm only a few lessons into the Laravel course but Its a lot more smooth sailing having refreshed my core foundation.

100% worth your time man, you'll thank yourself in the long run when the laravel lessons feel like a doddle because you understand things better!

In one of the above series, you build a mini framework with Jeffery so it should help you understand routing etc better too.

One of my favourite sayings is... If the foundation’s weak, the whole house fails eventually. Learn the basics first and build a solid foundation.

Yes, AI is huge but you still need to understand what the AI is generating to make sure stuff works and is secure and that its not overly complicating something for the sake of it (happens more than you think).

Use AI to help you learn too not just to aid with development. If you're not sure on something in the lesson, I ask it questions so I use this PHP feature like this, what happens if I use it like this... its a good buddy to use. Make sure in your prompt to tell it not just to agree with you and to critise and point out alternatives otherwise it acts like a noddy dog. :D

Curious, did you complete the PHP for Beginners course before this? I keep stalling, but I need to finish because it's got a lot of good tips for software development as a whole, even with AI changing this as we speak.

Just finished the 30 days to laravel course, and i had very few "news" using the new laravel framework. Don't see a reason to start again the updated one, since you are in a "hurry"

Thank you for mentioning Wispr Flow in the course. While it offers helpful accessibility features for people with pain, fatigue, low vision, or limited mobility through voice dictation, it does not appear to include specific adaptations for deaf users. There is no support for sign language, real-time captioning, or visual communication features, which limits its usefulness for the deaf community.

We believe this is an important aspect to consider when discussing accessibility. Thank you for highlighting this topic.

I'm in the same situation like @pjb88 here. Hoping for some new React + Inertia + Laravel course. basic things like flash messages, pagination and also best practices for forms, maybe filters, modals, how to handle things like ie. I have a form for users and one select box is 'Partners' and I need to have an option to dynamically create a new partner (should this be api endpoint, or just some custom route and inertia will handle it, or reuse controller for creating partners? ...).

I feel like lot of people could use some basics/best practices course.

But yeah, this single video answered a lot of my typescript questions I had starting with React starter kit few weeks ago.

For the Firefox users! The images are not rendering within the specified aspect ratio/object fit the fix is to add a width of 100%. I just added the w-full class to them :).

I use the Zen Browser which is based on Firefox and some of the images were not squared. I hope this helps!