| These web sites and books are excellent companions to Upgrading to PHP 5 . Web Sites There is a tremendous amount of PHP reference material online. With everything from the annotated PHP manual to sites with periodic articles and tutorials, a fast Internet connection rivals a large bookshelf in PHP documentary usefulness . -
- The Annotated PHP Manual (http://www.php.net/manual/)
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The official PHP Manual contains thousands of pages covering all aspects of PHP. It's an invaluable resource for looking up functions. -
- PHP mailing lists (http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php)
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Discuss PHP on the PHP mailing lists. Don't be shy, there's a list for every topic: programming, databases, and even Windows. A mailing list archive lives at http://news.php.net/. -
- PHP Presentation archive (http://talks.php.net/)
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A great way to keep up-to-date on all the latest PHP developments, this archive contains conference presentation slides. -
- PEAR (http://pear.php.net/)
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Don't reimplement the wheel, download it from PEAR. PEAR ”the PHP Extension and Application Repository ”contains PHP classes that simplify forms processing, provide a database abstraction layer, generate class documentation, and solve hundreds of other tasks . -
- PECL (http://pecl.php.net/)
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PECL is PEAR's sister. PECL ”the PHP Extension Community Library ”is a collection of PHP extensions written in C. They're just like the bundled PHP extensions, except they're targeted at a specialized audience. PECL contains may useful extensions, including a PHP cache and optimizer, extensions to let you talk to Perl and Python from PHP, and an XML pull parser. -
- PHP DevCenter (http://www.onlamp.com/php/)
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A large collection of PHP articles and tutorials freely available on the web. -
- PHPCommunity.org (http://www.phpcommunity.org/)
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A gathering place where members of the PHP community can hang out and meet other PHP programmers. Books These books are all helpful problem-solving guides and references. Most of the books in the list are web-specific, and the top six books are my favorite PHP and MySQL texts . -
PHP Cookbook , [1] by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg (O'Reilly, 2003). -
Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators , by David Sklar (Apress, 2004). -
Advanced PHP Programming , by George Schlossnagle (SAMS, 2004). -
MySQL Reference Manual , by Michael "Monty" Widenius, David Axmark, and MySQL AB (O'Reilly, 2002); also available at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. -
MySQL Cookbook , by Paul DuBois (O'Reilly, 2003). -
High Performance MySQL , by Jeremy D. Zawodny and Derek J. Balling (O'Reilly, 2004). -
XML in a Nutshell , Second Edition, by Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means (O'Reilly, 2002). -
HTTP Developer's Handbook , by Chris Shiflett (SAMS, 2003). -
Web Security, Privacy & Commerce , Second Edition, by Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford (O'Reilly, 2001). -
Mastering Regular Expressions , Second Edition, by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (O'Reilly, 2002). |
