One advantage of PHP is its growing developer community. Many people use it, and the PHP community is helpful. Many resources are available online. This article describes the most useful resources. Remember that you are not alone.
The PHP Web Site
This is the official PHP Web site. Here, new versions of PHP are released for download, and the PHP manual is online. You can find anything that you need to know about PHP here.
PHP Lists
When you’ve struggled for days with some recalcitrant code that stubbornly refuses to run, take it to the lists. Hundreds of PHP developers frequent the lists, and these folks know everything. Post a question to a PHP list, and you often have the answer before your finger is off your mouse key. You’ll find different lists for different subjects: php-general, php-db, php-instal1, php-windows, and others. You can sign tip for the lists on the PHP Web site.
The PHP lists have a lot of traffic. You can easily get more than 100 e-mail messages per day. However, when you are starting with PHP, reading the messages that other coders ask and the solutions that they receive can greatly help you learn PHP. At the very least, subscribe to the announce list to be informed of new versions and important releases. The announce list won’t deluge you with e-mail: it only sends a message every now and then.
Zend
The Zend engine is the core scripting engine of PHP. This Web site is full of information about PHP. You can find tutorials, articles, news, online seminars, and even a PHP job board.
PHP Builder
PHP Builder is a Web site containing a variety of resources for PHP coders. You can find news there and a list of useful articles. In addition, PHP Builder has a code library where you can obtain snippets of code or functions for a broad range of uses. You can search for code in such categories as databases, calendars, shopping carts, games, graphics, and many others.
PHP Dev Center
PHP Dev Center is a repository of very good PHP articles and tutorials on subjects from beginners to quite advanced levels. The authors are always knowledgeable.
Source Forge.net
SourceForge.net is the largest repository of C)pen Source code and applications available on the Internet. You can find software for all purposes at this site. You can find software written specifically in PHP by using the following method:
- Click the Browse Map tab.
- Click Advance Search button.
- Click Programming Language in the column on the right.
- Click PHP in the column of alphabetically listed programming languages on the left.
As of today, SourceForge.net shows almost 10,000+ projects in PHP.
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