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PHP 5 lessons

Featured

Advanced PHP & MySQL

Taking Payments Online: M-Pesa and Card Checkout

Money is where bugs get expensive. STK push, callbacks, verifying a payment server-side, idempotency...

5 lessons 170 students

PHP 10 lessons

Featured

Intermediate PHP & MySQL

PHP & MySQL Fundamentals

Build dynamic server-side websites. Forms, databases, sessions, authentication, all from scratch....

10 lessons 172 students

PHP 5 lessons

Intermediate PHP & MySQL

Database Design: Tables That Age Well

Choosing types, normalising without overdoing it, foreign keys, indexes that actually get used, and ...

5 lessons 163 students

PHP 5 lessons

Intermediate PHP & MySQL

Email That Actually Arrives

Why your password-reset email lands in spam or vanishes entirely. SMTP versus mail(), SPF, DKIM and ...

5 lessons 34 students

Laravel 5 lessons

Intermediate PHP & MySQL

Laravel: Your First Real Application

Move from single PHP files to a framework. Routing, controllers, Blade, Eloquent, migrations, valida...

5 lessons 122 students

PHP 5 lessons

Intermediate PHP & MySQL

Object-Oriented PHP: Code You Can Still Read Later

Classes, constructors, visibility, interfaces and dependency injection, explained by fixing a real p...

5 lessons 73 students

PHP 5 lessons

Intermediate PHP & MySQL

PHP Login Systems That Are Not a Liability

Sessions, password hashing, and the guard that actually protects a page. Built around the mistakes t...

5 lessons 102 students

PHP 5 lessons

Intermediate PHP & MySQL

Building APIs Other People Can Use

Design and build a JSON API properly: resource URLs, correct status codes, validation, authenticatio...

5 lessons 76 students

PHP 5 lessons

Beginner PHP & MySQL

SQL: Asking Your Database the Right Questions

SELECT, WHERE, JOIN, GROUP BY. The four things you will write every working day. Built around a real...

5 lessons 160 students

Why Merik Academy

Learn by Actually Building

Every lesson has a live code playground, read, code, see results instantly. No switching tabs, no setup.

Live Playground

Every lesson has HTML/CSS/JS editors with instant preview. Learn by doing, not just watching.

Pay Once, Own Forever

No monthly subscriptions. Pay once via Paystack, M-Pesa or Crypto. Yours forever.

Real Certificate

Complete a course and get a verifiable PDF certificate with a unique code anyone can check online.

Truly Global

Pay in your currency. Paystack handles conversions. M-Pesa for Kenya. Crypto for everyone.

FAQ

Academy Questions

Yes! Git & GitHub and Build a Portfolio Website are 100% free. Every paid course also has free preview lessons so you can try before buying.

Paystack (cards, mobile money, bank transfer, NGN, GHS, KES, ZAR, USD and more), M-Pesa for Kenya, and cryptocurrency via NOWPayments (BTC, ETH, USDT and 60+ coins). All prices auto-convert to your local currency.

Every lesson has an embedded live code editor with HTML, CSS, and JS tabs. Write code on one side, see the result instantly on the other. No setup, no installation, just open the lesson and start coding.

Yes! Complete all lessons in a course and a unique verifiable certificate is auto-generated. It has a code anyone can verify at merikagency.com/verify_certificate. Print or share it on LinkedIn.

Absolutely. Lessons have a 5-tab mobile layout, Theory, HTML, CSS, JS, and Preview. The full experience works on any smartphone, no app needed.

Every lesson has a hint button. You can also post in the Community feed where other learners and the Merik team can help. Pro members get priority support.

Early adopters lock in today's price. As more lessons and features are added, prices may rise, especially the Lifetime plan.

Not currently, lessons require an internet connection for the live playground and progress tracking.

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