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Free for ages 3–5 · One course per age band · Read or play online

Coding for every age — from a three-year-old's first pattern to production PHP.

Pick the age band, then the course. For anyone under 18 a parent or teacher buys and owns the account — children never sign up, and the pages made for them carry no analytics scripts. Paid courses are read online with progress saved and come as a Word file; the first lesson of each is free to read before you decide.

Ages 3–5

Little Coders

Pre-readers. Patterns, sorting and first sequences — pictures only, with a grown-up alongside.

A parent or teacher opens the page and the child taps. No reading, no account, nothing saved.

Ages 3–5 Beginner 8 activities · pictures only

Little Coders: First Patterns, Sorting and Sequences

Eight picture activities for ages 3–5 — no reading, no account, nothing saved. A grown-up reads one line; the child taps.

  • Put three picture cards in the order they happen
  • Say what comes next in a red-blue-red-blue pattern
  • Tap out a three-step path for the robot with arrow buttons
Free · no account Start playing →
Ages 5–9

Code Play

Early readers. Sequences, loops, events and conditionals as pictures and short sentences, one activity per lesson.

A parent or teacher buys and owns the account; the child needs no account. Best done together, one lesson at a time.

Ages 5–9 Beginner 10 lessons · ~30 min

Code Play: Sequences, Loops and Ifs for Ages 5–9

Ten short lessons for early readers — a few sentences to read together, then one picture activity — covering the ideas every programming language is built on.

  • Explain that a program is a list of steps a computer follows exactly, in order
  • Build a path for a robot with arrow steps and fix it when it goes wrong
  • Use a loop to repeat a step instead of tapping it again and again
₹499$15 See the curriculum →
Ages 5–9 · 10–14 Beginner 8 activities · pictures only

Coding Games for Kids: Free Puzzles to Learn to Code

Eight free coding games children play right in the browser — steer a robot, spot the bug, finish the pattern, sort the boxes — each one teaching a real idea behind every programming language. No account, nothing to install.

  • Steer a robot to a goal with arrow steps, and fix the path when it goes wrong
  • Use a loop to repeat a step instead of tapping it many times
  • Finish a pattern by predicting what comes next
Free · no account Start playing →
Ages 5–9 · 10–14 Beginner 12 lessons · ~36 min

Scratch Coding for Kids: Make Games and Animations (Ages 8–12)

Twelve lessons that take a child from opening Scratch for the first time to building their own game — sprites, motion, events, loops, if-then, variables and a final project — using the free Scratch tool from MIT, with nothing to install.

  • Open Scratch and find your way around the blocks, the stage and the sprites
  • Make a sprite move, turn and glide, and understand the x-y grid of the stage
  • Start a program with the green flag and react to clicks and key presses
₹699$19 See the curriculum →
Ages 10–14

First Web Page

Upper primary and middle school. A real web page from a text editor: HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript, nothing to install.

A parent or teacher buys and owns the account. The learner can work alone; the lessons are written to them.

Ages 5–9 · 10–14 Beginner 8 activities · pictures only

Coding Games for Kids: Free Puzzles to Learn to Code

Eight free coding games children play right in the browser — steer a robot, spot the bug, finish the pattern, sort the boxes — each one teaching a real idea behind every programming language. No account, nothing to install.

  • Steer a robot to a goal with arrow steps, and fix the path when it goes wrong
  • Use a loop to repeat a step instead of tapping it many times
  • Finish a pattern by predicting what comes next
Free · no account Start playing →
Ages 5–9 · 10–14 Beginner 12 lessons · ~36 min

Scratch Coding for Kids: Make Games and Animations (Ages 8–12)

Twelve lessons that take a child from opening Scratch for the first time to building their own game — sprites, motion, events, loops, if-then, variables and a final project — using the free Scratch tool from MIT, with nothing to install.

  • Open Scratch and find your way around the blocks, the stage and the sprites
  • Make a sprite move, turn and glide, and understand the x-y grid of the stage
  • Start a program with the green flag and react to clicks and key presses
₹699$19 See the curriculum →
Ages 10–14 Beginner 12 lessons · ~37 min

First Web Page: HTML, CSS and a Little JavaScript for Ages 10–14

Twelve lessons that turn a plain text file on your own computer into a real website — headings, links, pictures, colours, layout, and buttons that do things — with no installing and no account.

  • Write a valid HTML page by hand with headings, paragraphs, lists, links and pictures, and know why every tag has a closing tag
  • Link several pages together into one small site inside a folder, using relative links that still work when the folder moves
  • Style pages with a CSS file: colours, fonts, spacing, boxes, and a simple flexbox layout that works on a phone
₹699$19 See the curriculum →
Ages 10–14 Beginner 12 lessons · ~36 min

Python for Kids: Code Games, Quizzes and Drawings (Ages 10–14)

Twelve short lessons that take a 10-to-14-year-old from a first line of Python to their own quiz game — variables, decisions, loops, lists, functions, random numbers and turtle drawings — on the family computer, with no account.

  • Write and run Python programs in IDLE, the editor that comes with Python
  • Store information in variables, ask the user questions and print friendly answers
  • Make decisions with if, elif and else, and repeat with for and while loops
₹699$19 See the curriculum →
Ages 10–14 Beginner 10 lessons · ~30 min

AI for Kids: How Artificial Intelligence Really Works (Ages 10–14)

Ten short lessons that explain artificial intelligence for kids the honest way — learning from examples, patterns and predictions, how chatbots work, why AI gets things wrong, fairness, and using AI safely — each with a picture activity.

  • Explain the difference between a normal program that follows rules and an AI that learns from examples
  • Describe how training data, labels and patterns let a computer make predictions
  • Explain in simple words how a computer sees pictures and how a chatbot writes its answers
₹699$19 See the curriculum →
Ages 15–18

School Projects

Senior secondary. From the HTML/CSS/JS that school syllabi cover to a PHP + MySQL project you can defend in a viva.

A parent, teacher or the student's own adult buys and owns the account.

Ages 15–18 Beginner 12 lessons · ~50 min

PHP for School Projects: From Web Pages to a Working Database App (Ages 15–18)

School web courses stop at the browser. This one adds the server: PHP, forms, MySQL and a complete library-record project you can demonstrate, explain in a viva and write up in a report.

  • Explain what a web server, PHP and MySQL each do, and how one request travels from the browser to the database and back
  • Set up PHP and MySQL on your own computer and run a PHP page that mixes code and HTML
  • Write PHP with variables, arrays, control flow, functions and include files, using the HTML/CSS/JavaScript you already know
₹999$29 See the curriculum →
Ages 15–18 Beginner 10 lessons · ~36 min

AI for Students: Understand and Use Artificial Intelligence Well (Ages 15–18)

Ten lessons that take a 15-to-18-year-old from "AI writes my homework" to genuinely understanding how it works, using it honestly for study and projects, spotting its mistakes and bias, and knowing what it means for your future.

  • Explain in clear language what AI, machine learning and large language models are, and how they differ from ordinary software
  • Describe how a chatbot generates answers, and give concrete reasons why it can be confidently wrong
  • Use AI tools for study and school projects in ways that help you learn and stay within academic-honesty rules
₹999$29 See the curriculum →
Ages 15–18 · 18+ Beginner 12 lessons · ~43 min

PHP Foundations: From Zero to Your First Database App

Learn PHP by reading — syntax, forms, sessions, MySQL with PDO and security — and finish with a working app on real hosting.

  • Write PHP that runs on any shared host — variables, control flow, functions, arrays and strings without guessing
  • Take input from HTML forms safely: validate it, escape it, and never trust it
  • Build a login with sessions and password hashing that isn't embarrassing
₹999$29 See the curriculum →
Ages 18+

Adults & professionals

From your first script to production PHP and multi-tenant SaaS — the courses freelancers and agencies use.

Buy for yourself; read online with progress saved and keep every course as a Word file.

Ages 15–18 · 18+ Beginner 12 lessons · ~43 min

PHP Foundations: From Zero to Your First Database App

Learn PHP by reading — syntax, forms, sessions, MySQL with PDO and security — and finish with a working app on real hosting.

  • Write PHP that runs on any shared host — variables, control flow, functions, arrays and strings without guessing
  • Take input from HTML forms safely: validate it, escape it, and never trust it
  • Build a login with sessions and password hashing that isn't embarrassing
₹999$29 See the curriculum →
Ages 18+ Intermediate 12 lessons · ~44 min

PHP in Practice: Building Real Web Apps the Right Way

You can write PHP — now learn to structure it: OOP that earns its keep, Composer, a proper database layer, real authentication, uploads, email, a JSON API, tests, and a clean deploy.

  • Structure an application around a front controller, a router and a config file instead of a folder of scripts
  • Write classes, interfaces and traits where they help — and leave them out where they don't
  • Use Composer and PSR-4 autoloading, and pull in well-chosen packages without losing control of your code
₹1,499$39 See the curriculum →
Ages 18+ Advanced 12 lessons · ~57 min

Advanced PHP: Architecture, Security and Scale

Take a single-customer PHP app to a multi-tenant hosted product: the engine, the type system, DI, middleware, domain modelling, databases and caches at scale, security in depth, queues, observability and zero-downtime shipping.

  • Explain what PHP-FPM, opcache, preloading and the JIT actually do, and size a server from measurements rather than guesses
  • Use enums, readonly classes, intersection/DNF types, first-class callables and attributes where they remove real bugs
  • Write a PSR-11 container with autowiring and a PSR-15 middleware pipeline, and know what a framework is doing for you
₹1,999$49 See the curriculum →
Ages 18+ Intermediate 12 lessons · ~42 min

AI for PHP Developers: Claude, OpenAI and Gemini APIs in Real Apps

Add AI features to a real PHP/MySQL app the right way: one client for three providers, prompts that survive production, JSON you can trust, streaming, semantic search, answers from your own documents, and the security and cost controls nobody mentions in

  • Call the Claude, OpenAI and Gemini APIs from plain PHP with cURL, and hide them behind one interface so the provider is a config setting
  • Keep API keys out of code and browsers, cap spend per request and per day, and log tokens and cost for every call
  • Write prompts as versioned templates that separate your instructions from user data
₹1,499$39 See the curriculum →
Ages 18+ Beginner 12 lessons · ~36 min

Prompt Engineering Course: Get Reliable Results from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini

A practical prompt engineering course for work: a prompt framework you can reuse, examples, structured output, working with your own documents, checking facts, and a personal prompt library — with a certificate of completion.

  • Explain what a language model does, why it sometimes makes things up, and when its answers must be checked
  • Write prompts with a clear task, context, constraints and output format using one reusable framework
  • Use examples, step-by-step plans and follow-up turns to get consistent results on complex tasks
₹999$29 See the curriculum →
Ages 18+ Beginner 12 lessons · ~36 min

Create an Ecommerce Website with AI: Build a PHP Store and Take It Live

Use ChatGPT or Claude as your coding partner to build a real online store in PHP and MySQL — product pages, a cart, checkout with a real payment gateway, and an admin panel — then put it live on your own domain, step by step.

  • Plan an online store and its database with an AI assistant, and know what to ask for at each step
  • Build product listing and product-detail pages in PHP that read from a MySQL database
  • Add a working shopping cart using PHP sessions
₹299$9 See the curriculum →
Ages 18+ Intermediate 24 lessons · ~74 min

Agentic AI Course: How to Build AI Agents, Beginner to Advanced (in PHP)

Learn how to build AI agents step by step — from your first tool call to a hosted, production-ready agent — with guardrails, memory, MCP, multi-agent orchestration and cost control, written in PHP with the official Anthropic SDK.

  • Explain what an AI agent is, how the tool-use loop works, and when a plain API call or a workflow is the better choice
  • Set up a local PHP environment with the official Anthropic SDK, keep keys out of code, and make your first calls knowing what they cost
  • Define tools, run the agent loop yourself and with the Tool Runner, and handle every stop reason, error and parallel tool call correctly
₹499$19 See the curriculum →
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Pay once in your own currency; for anyone under 18 the adult buys. Free courses need no purchase and no account. The first lesson of every paid course is free to read before you decide.

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Lessons open in the account on any device; mark each one done and pick up where you left off. Children never have an account of their own.

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PHP runs more of the web than you'd guess

Public, checkable statements from companies that have written about running PHP — not testimonials, and nothing to do with this store. If you're deciding whether PHP is worth learning, this is the part of the answer that doesn't come from us.

69.9%
of websites with a known server-side language use PHP
Source: W3Techs, usage statistics for PHP · as of 23 Sep 2026
40.2%
of all websites run WordPress, which is written in PHP
Source: W3Techs, usage statistics for WordPress · as of 23 Sep 2026

  • Meta (Facebook)

    Facebook was built in PHP; Meta later created Hack, a language with "deep roots in PHP", and migrated "nearly our entire PHP codebase" to it. facebook.com still runs on Meta's HHVM runtime.

    Source: Meta Engineering, "Hack: a new programming language for HHVM" (2014) · checked 24 Sep 2026

  • Wikipedia (Wikimedia)

    Wikipedia runs on MediaWiki, software that "uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database". The Wikimedia Foundation moved all its wikis to PHP 7 in 2019.

    Source: mediawiki.org, "What is MediaWiki?" · checked 24 Sep 2026

  • WordPress

    The most widely used content management system on the web is a PHP application; wordpress.org currently recommends hosts run PHP 8.3 or newer for it.

    Source: wordpress.org, server requirements · checked 24 Sep 2026

  • Slack

    "Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic", its then chief architect wrote in 2016. Salesforce completed its acquisition of Slack for $27.7 billion in July 2021.

    Source: Slack Engineering, "Taking PHP Seriously" (2016); Salesforce press release, 21 July 2021 · checked 24 Sep 2026

  • Etsy

    "The largest part of the application is written in PHP" — everything synchronous on Etsy.com and its API, per Etsy's engineering leads in 2015. Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, was on Etsy's staff at the time.

    Source: The Next Platform, reporting Etsy's Code as Craft engineering talk (2015) · checked 24 Sep 2026

  • Tumblr

    Tumblr moved its whole web-server fleet from PHP 5 to PHP 7 in 2016, and reported latency cut roughly in half with CPU load down by at least 50%.

    Source: Tumblr Engineering, "PHP 7 at Tumblr" (2016) · checked 24 Sep 2026

  • Vimeo

    Vimeo has been "using PHP in production for over 15 years" and built Psalm, one of the two leading static-analysis tools for PHP, to keep that codebase safe.

    Source: vimeo/psalm on GitHub; Vimeo Engineering, "It's not legacy code — it's PHP" · checked 24 Sep 2026

  • How this list is made

    Only companies with a public engineering post or documentation of their own saying they run PHP. No logos, no rankings, no endorsement claims — the companies named have no connection to phpguru.store and don't endorse it. Figures are as of the dates shown and change over time.

Questions people ask first

Why reading instead of video?

Code is text. A lesson you read lets you copy, search, and re-read the exact line you're stuck on — and finish in a fraction of the time. Every lesson ends with exercises, because typing is where it sticks.

Which course should I start with?

If you've never written PHP, the Beginner course — it assumes nothing beyond having seen HTML. Each course page lists exactly what it assumes you already know. If you know you'll want more than one, the packages cost less than buying the courses one by one.

Is the content the same as the free tutorials online?

It's written for PHP 8 by the people who build and sell the management systems on this site, and it teaches the same patterns those products use — prepared statements, escaping, sessions, real deployment — instead of the decade-old mysql_* code most free tutorials still carry.

Can I get a refund?

Like our software, courses are delivered instantly and are non-refundable — which is why the first lesson is free and the full curriculum is listed before you buy. See the refund policy.

Does my child need an account?

No. An adult buys (for the paid courses) and owns the account; the child taps or reads on the adult's device. The free 3–5 activities need no account at all. Nothing a child does is sent anywhere — the activities run entirely in the browser.

What do you collect on the children's pages?

Nothing personal. Pages for under-18 courses carry no analytics scripts at all; the server keeps only aggregate page counts with no identifiers. The adult's account holds the adult's email and, if they choose to tick lessons done, those ticks. Details are in the privacy policy.

How long should a session be?

Short, and together. Each 3–5 activity is one screen and takes a few minutes with a grown-up alongside; a 5–9 lesson is one activity plus a few sentences. For reference, the World Health Organization's 2019 guideline recommends that sedentary screen time for children aged 2–4 be no more than one hour a day, and that less is better (WHO, 24 April 2019; checked 24 Sep 2026).

Refunds on the kids' courses?

The 3–5 course is free. The paid kids' and teen courses follow the same policy as every course here — delivered instantly, non-refundable — so try the free first lesson with your child before buying.