PHP Resources

PHP Manuals:

PHP.NET
You can browse through the manual by simply typing the keyword after the URL.

For example:
www.php.net/operators
www.php.net/oop
www.php.net/arrays

PHP Servers:

WAMP:
http://www.wampserver.com/en/

XAMPP:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Multi-OS

PHP for starters:

www.tizag.com
Recommened - I learned basic PHP from Tizag

http://hudzilla.org/phpwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Absolutely amazing resource for any beginner.

http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/627
By Zend

http://www.phpvideotutorials.com/
Video tutorials with a pinch of fun

http://www.sitepoint.com/books/phpmysql1/
Although, I don't recommend books. I think if you're new, you can try out sitepoint book on PHP.

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/chea...p-cheat-sheet/
PHP Cheat Sheet by Jack Daniels

I want to learn OOP:

To learn OOP, you need to broaden your horizons. Don't limit OOP just to PHP. Go over other FULLY supported OOP languages such as Ruby and mess with it. Create some fun programs only based on OOP structure and then move on to PHP. If you find that hassle then follow below:


Object-Oriented Programming by Practical PHP Programming
http://hudzilla.org/phpwiki/index.ph...ed_programming

Object-Oriented Programming explained by TFL PHP Expert Village Idiot
http://www.talkfreelance.com/showthread.php?p=381652

Object-Oriented by PHP.NET
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php

PHP Frameworks:

http://framework.zend.com/
PHP5

http://www.cakephp.org/
PHP4 - PHP5

http://www.symfony-project.com/
PHP5

http://seagull.phpkitchen.com/
PHP4 - PHP5

http://www.phpwact.org/
PHP4 - PHP5

http://www.xisc.com/
PHP5

http://www.codeigniter.com/
PHP4 - PHP5

Regular expressions

Regular Expressions helps to find, replace and validate the string data. An example would be validating the forms.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/reg...xpressions-php
Read the introductory tutorial on Regex by Sitepoint.

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php
All about Regex

http://php.net/regex
PHP regular expression functions documentation

http://www.regular-expressions.info/php.html
Regular-Expressions with PHP. Link shared by Salathe

Articles from TFL

PHP and OOP by Village Idiot
http://www.talkfreelance.com/thread43077.html

Make secure programs with PHP by Village Idiot
http://www.talkfreelance.com/showthread.php?t=37178

Tips to Improve Your Coding and Projects by Village Idiot
http://www.talkfreelance.com/showthread.php?t=28277

Free Scripts within TFL

Free scripts and snippets provided by TFL PHP'ers

http://www.talkfreelance.com/showthread.php?p=383221
Contact Form Script by Haris

http://www.talkfreelance.com/showthread.php?t=43097
Free Secure PHP login system released by Sam Granger

http://www.talkfreelance.com/thread37653.html
Free invite script by Village Idiot

http://www.talkfreelance.com/showthr...light=sql_safe
Protect your forms from potential SQL attacks by Village Idiot

Just wanted to say thanks for the list their are a few sites on their I did not know about and and look very interesting thanks :-)

Originally Posted by Sessionmedia Just wanted to say thanks for the list their are a few sites on their I did not know about and and look very interesting thanks :-)

Thanks, I'll be adding/bumping more stuff to this thread once in a while.

thanks haris! verry useful!

No problem, Neo.

Another Reg. Exp. link: http://www.regular-expressions.info/php.html
(mods delete this post if/when Haris includes it in the post above, please)

Thanks.

Excellent thread Haris. I've always wanted to learn PHP. Maybe this will get me started? I have one very basic question though, where would you go to first start learning PHP?

Design Patterns:
http://www.fluffycat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Desig...tract-Factory/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...p-designptrns/

Originally Posted by JamesH Excellent thread Haris. I've always wanted to learn PHP. Maybe this will get me started? I have one very basic question though, where would you go to first start learning PHP?

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/

And thanks.