0.3. Other Resources
0.3.1. 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.
Here are some key sites:
- The Annotated PHP Manual: http://www.php.net/manual/
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Available in seventeen languages, this includes both official
documentation of functions and language features as well as
user-contributed comments.
- PHP mailing lists: http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php
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There are many PHP mailing lists covering installation, programming,
extending PHP, and various other topics. A read-only web interface to
the mailing lists is at http://news.php.net/.
- PHP Presentation archive: http://conf.php.net/
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A collection of presentations on PHP given at various conferences.
- PEAR: http://pear.php.net/
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PEAR calls itself "a framework and distribution
system for reuseable PHP components."
You'll find lots of useful PHP classes and sample
code there.
- PHP.net: A Tourist's Guide: http://www.php.net/sites.php
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This is a guide to the various web sites under the
php.net umbrella.
- PHP Knowledge Base: http://php.faqts.com/
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Many questions and answers from the PHP community, as well as links
to other resources.
- PHP DevCenter: http://www.onlamp.com/php/
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A collection of PHP articles and tutorials with a good mix of
introductory and advanced topics.
0.3.2. Books
This section lists books that are helpful references and tutorials
for building applications with PHP. Most are specific to web-related
programming; look for books on MySQL, HTML, XML, and HTTP.
At the end of the section, we've included a few
books that are useful for every programmer regardless of language of
choice. These works can make you a better programmer by teaching you
how to think about programming as part of a larger pattern of problem
solving.
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Programming PHP by Kevin Tatroe and Rasmus
Lerdorf (O'Reilly).
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HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide by Chuck
Musciano and Bill Kennedy (O'Reilly).
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Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Guide by Danny
Goodman (O'Reilly).
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Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F.
Friedl (O'Reilly).
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XML in a Nutshell by Elliotte Rusty Harold and
W. Scott Means (O'Reilly).
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MySQL Reference Manual, by Michael
"Monty" Widenius, David Axmark, and
MySQL AB (O'Reilly); also available at
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/.
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MySQL, by Paul DuBois (New Riders).
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Web Security, Privacy, and Commerce by Simson
Garfinkel and Gene Spafford (O'Reilly).
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Web Services Essentials, by Ethan Cerami
(O'Reilly).
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HTTP Pocket Reference, by Clinton Wong
(O'Reilly).
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The Practice of Programming, by Brian W.
Kernighan and Rob Pike (Addison-Wesley).
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Programming Pearls by Jon Louis Bentley
(Addison-Wesley).
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The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks
(Addison-Wesley).
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