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## Contents

* 1 Definition
* 2 Documentation
* 2.1 Manuals
* 2.2 FAQ's
* 2.3 Introductory tutorials in English
* 2.4 Overviews
* 2.5 Tutorial series
* 2.6 Tutoriels en français
* 2.7 Printed Books
* 2.8 Installation
* 2.9 Special Topics
* 3 Software
* 3.1 Development and application frameworks
* 3.2 Examples
* 3.3 Libraries and other tools
* 4 General Links
* 4.1 English
* 4.2 Français
* 4.3 German

## Definition[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

### Manuals[edit | edit source]

* 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)

### FAQ's[edit | edit source]

* FAQ (English)

### Introductory tutorials in English[edit | edit source]

(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[edit | edit source]

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

### Tutorial series[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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* Installation serveur Apache-PHP-Mysql (Tecfa Slides, OUTDATED for php4 only ?)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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

(this should be expanded)

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

### Examples[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

### English[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

(pas vraiment testés)

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

### German[edit | edit source]

* Dynamic WebPages
* PHP-Homepage.de