PHP links

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1 Definition

This is a page with external links for PHP.

Warning: Most of these links are old - Have to update - Daniel K. Schneider 16:36, 13 September 2007 (MEST)

2 Documentation

2.1 Manuals

Manuals at the official PHP site. This is your best bet !
Manuals at the official PHP site (france mirror)
Manuals at the official PHP site (germany mirror)
LOCAL COPY of the 5.x manual (April 2005).
LOCAL COPY of the 4.3.x manual (March 2004).
LOCAL COPY of the 4.3.x manual in ONE gzipped File (1.4MB!, March 2004).
COPIE LOCALE du manuel franï¿½ais PhP 5.x (Mars 2005)
COPIE LOCALE du manuel franï¿½ais PhP 4 (Mars 2003)

2.2 FAQ's

FAQ (English)

2.3 Introductory tutorials in English

(there are many more, see the major php and webmaster's sites.)

An Introduction to PHP by L. Atkinson and Z. Suraski, webreference sept. 2003. Good history / propaganda text.

2.7 Printed Books

There are many and I can't keep track.

Lea Chris , Choi Wankyu , Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman (2000), Beginning PHP4, Wrox Press Inc; ISBN 186100373

2.8 Installation

Needs some more

The Soothingly Seamless Setup of Apache, SSL, MySQL, and PHP (@ devshed)
Installation serveur Apache-PHP-Mysql (Tecfa Slides, OUTDATED for php4 only ?)

2.9 Special Topics

Pull parsing XML in PHP by Elliotte Rusty Harold, IBM developper works article, 30 jan 2007.
Fundamentals of PHP Superglobals (PHPBuilder, 2005)
Tutorial Character encoding. A short and good tutorial on how to code for UTF-8 (not as easy as it sounds, since there are several things/layers to think about [12/2006]
PHP-GTK. PHP-GTK is an extension for the PHP programming language that implements language bindings for GTK . It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications. (Site has additional links to tutorials, examples, etc.). See also a PhpBuilder article (9/2004)
Manage your content with PhP, by Chistopher Robbins, A List Apart, 2002
XML in PHP 5 - What's News ? By Christian Stocker. March 18, 2004. Good introduction to SAX, DOM, Xpath and XSLT with php 5.
Einführung von XML mittels SimpleXML und DOM, at tutorials.de by
PHP 5 Meets XML and the DOM PHP Magazine - International Edition Issue: 02.2004 - not very usefull because code listings are missing.
XML in PHP5 also by Christian Stocker, Mai 2004, Many slides from the php-conference 2004. Very good for people who like to work best with examples.
PHP and XML Introduction at TopXML
The XML C library for Gnome qives some infos about the "dom" package of PHP 4.x (OUTDATED for PHP 5)
Parsing XML with PHP (OUTDATED for PHP 5)
DOM XML: An Alternative to Expat (OUTDATED for PHP 5)
Interfacing with Java from PHP
Templates the PHP Way by David Orr, PHPBuiler
PHPLib Templates, by Benjamin D. Smith, DevShed
PHP and Regular Expressions 101, tutorial @ webreference
Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional. A tutorial by Lee Babin (2006).
XML enabled applications (Webreference, 2007).
PHP - Secure coding (LXF Wiki Area)
What PHP Deployment Gets Right (Blog entry, 2008)

3 Software

To install a apache/php/mysql configuration: see LAMP (linux) or WAMP (windows/mac).

Various:

PHP downloads Source code, PHP versions, logos and documentation to download.
PhPEdit, a full featured IDE for Windows
PhPXRef a Perl script that makes crossreferences and extracts documentation from php code. Useful !

3.1 Development and application frameworks

(this should be expanded)

Zend framework
Introductory tutorial for the Zend framework
Code Igniter - OpenSource
Roberto's links

3.2 Examples

Local Example Directory
See Portalware. Many portals have been written in PhP, e.g. postnuke, nuke, drupal, geeklog, phpweblog, phpwebsite
phpHoo a Yahoo like directory with PHP

3.3 Libraries and other tools

HotScripts.com. Large collection of libraries and applications.
Phpclasses.org. Large and useful collection of classes ! (requires registration, optional mailing list)
The PhP resource Index
Berber's WebDev Site large collection, including hints for programmers
PHP Code Exchange site. Good collection
XML-RPC Client
phpHtmlLib, A set of PHP classes and library functions to help facilitate building, debugging, and rendering of XML, HTML, XHTML, WAP/WML Documents, and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images as well as complex html 'widgets'.
DevShed's PHP resources.

4 General Links

4.1 English

For more see the INDEX at www.php.net

PhP HUB, news, tutorials, articles, (new 2003)
PHP-Center ( German Site in German )
PHP classes repository (one of the most useful sites for finding reusable code)
PHP - at Web Developper's Virtual Library (wdvl)

4.2 Français

(pas vraiment testés)

4.3 German