Understand the AI Landscape for PHP Developers: Gain a clear overview of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically tailored to how they intersect with PHP development.
Master PHP API Integration: Learn to securely connect your PHP applications to external AI services, understanding RESTful API principles, HTTP methods, JSON payloads, and robust error handling.
Integrate Leading Large Language Models: Acquire the skills to work with major LLM providers like OpenAI (GPT) and Google (Gemini), including authentication, prompt construction, and response parsing.
Explore Diverse AI Services: Discover how to integrate and utilize various AI capabilities beyond LLMs, such as image generation (DALL-E, Stable Diffusion), speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and specialized NLP services like sentiment analysis.
Implement Common LLM Tasks in PHP: Develop practical proficiency in using LLMs for tasks like text generation, summarization, translation, question answering, and text classification, with concrete PHP code examples.
Apply Advanced LLM Techniques: Learn to optimize AI interactions through prompt engineering, manage conversation history for chatbots, and understand concepts like embeddings and fine-tuning.
Design and Build AI-Powered PHP Applications: Gain a systematic approach to identifying opportunities for AI, designing user-friendly AI features, and architecting data flow between your PHP backend and AI APIs.
Develop Practical AI Projects: Work through hands-on projects, including an AI content assistant for a CMS, an intelligent FAQ chatbot, and a conceptual AI-powered product recommendation engine.
Manage AI API Usage Effectively: Understand and implement strategies for handling API rate limits, robust error handling, and asynchronous processing for long-running AI tasks in PHP.
Ensure Security and Cost-Efficiency: Learn best practices for protecting API keys, sanitizing inputs, managing data privacy, and optimizing costs when integrating AI services.
Develop Ethically and Responsibly: Recognize and address AI bias, promote fairness, and understand your role as a PHP developer in building ethical AI applications.