Building PHP Applications with Generative AI

Learn how to use generative AI for code writing, validation, and testing.

Introduction

• How can generative AI help with PHP?
• What you should know
• How this course works

1. Planning

• Defining requirements
• Use cases
• User stories
• Creating timelines
• Challenge: Generate a requirements document
• Solution: Generate a requirements document

2. Writing Code

• Using ChatGPT to get code snippets
• Working with GitHub's Copilot
• Other code-writing tools
• Challenge: Writing a PHP class sorter
• Solution: Writing a PHP class sorter

3. Testing Your Code

• Automated testing vs. AI testing
• Writing unit tests with AI
• Generating test data
• Challenge: Generate test data for the provided class
• Solution: Generate test data for the provided class

4. Documentation

• Types of documentation
• Creating Doc Blocks
• Creating comments for code

Conclusion

• Next steps