veks9922 Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Hello, I create social network in php and I want to know if this project is good that get first job as junior php developer. I will grateful if someone help me show where are issues and what could I improve. https://github.com/phpowiec/Social-Network-MessBox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Do you want to be a backend or frontend developer? How large of a company are you looking to start with? Are you interested in companies with their own home-made applications or ones that use existing applications and frameworks to build their business? More often than not, companies will be using public frameworks - for PHP that mostly means Symfony or Laravel. That means you should try to demonstrate some amount of knowledge with those, and spend less time showing projects where you "reinvented the wheel" and wrote from the ground up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veks9922 Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 @requinix I want to be backend developer. And did you see my project ? How do you rate this project ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 There's a lot of files there so I can't personally spend the time to review the whole thing. Honestly, neither will a prospective employer. If you have specific questions or want opinions on specific files then that's something I could help with much more easily... A portfolio typically needs multiple smaller pieces of work that can be viewed, not single larger projects. Remember that what you're demonstrating is the sort of results you could provide to someone who will hire you - and most of them are not going to ask you to write a social network from scratch. They'll want a code sample to see that you know what you're doing with PHP, or that you can use a particular framework, or that you understand various algorithms or design patterns. I'm not saying that this Social-Network-MessBox thing is a waste of time. Every programmer should have a project or two they can work on during their spare time to keep improving as a developer, and this seems quite suitable to that end. But it's not going to be as useful in a portfolio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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