There's Laracasts (equivalent of GoRails for Laravel), look up on YouTube their tutorial on PHP (and even Laravel, if you feel like it), they also have a website and Discord community PHP is quite nice these days, and Laravel actually has a pretty big ecosystem, bigger than Rails' I'd say (I still think RoR feels a lot more productive though, Laravel may require some tweaking, it's not as out of the box as Rails) - the only weird thing about PHP these days is weird/different naming conventions for some functions, they wanted to change them, but it'd break lots of existing codebases