PHP links

Draft

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)

Documentation

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 fran�ais PhP 5.x (Mars 2005)
• COPIE LOCALE du manuel fran�ais PhP 4 (Mars 2003)

FAQ's

• FAQ (English)

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.

Overviews

• PHP5: Coming Soon to a Webserver Near You by Harry Fuecks, July 28th, 2003

Tutorial series

• The see PhP series at www.devshed.com, e.g.
• phpbuilder.com series
• PHP - Webreference.com Various tutorial articles
• W3Schools PHP Tutorials.

Tutoriels en français

• Tutoriel de Christophe Lauer
• "http://lignes.ringard.org/linux/php.html" (lien mort) Introduction aux pages web actives avec PHP et MySQL par Olivier Martineau
• Serie de tutoriels sur phpfrance
• TECFA Slides: Regardez ici sous PHP Trail

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

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• Installation serveur Apache-PHP-Mysql (Tecfa Slides, OUTDATED for php4 only ?)

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)

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 !

Development and application frameworks

(this should be expanded)

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

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

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.

General Links

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)

Français

(pas vraiment testés)

• La passerelle française des Technologies PHP
• phpinfo.net: Site d'information PhP/MySQL
• PHP France
• PhP facile

German

• Dynamic WebPages
• PHP-Homepage.de