PHP Resources for Tutorials, Books, Script Archives, etc.

I'm thinking of adding a new php book to the list: PHP 5 Power Programming. To download the book for free as a pdf file click on downloads under the More Information heading and a div will appear with the download link. I haven't actually had a chance to look at the book except to verify that the whole thing is there for free, so I don't know how good it is, but I figure it's worth a look as it's availabe under an Open Publication License. There are also some non-PHP books available at the same site as part of Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.

umm, clicking that downloads link appears to take me right back to the very same page...am I doing something really stupid I should kick myself for? I tried allowing the site for popups....Thats not it...

Double check that you have javascript enabled. The site uses an onclick event on that link to show a hidden element. Since they put a # in the href of the link and didn't return false to cancel the click event, your browser will probably jump to the top of the page if you have scrolled down at all. That makes it look like it's just the same page, but if you look closely you should see this new link:

Download PHP 5 Power Programming in PDF.

For those of you wanting to learn PHP 5 and really apply its object oriented features, a good book that I got (which a friend recommended) is Matt Zandstra's PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice. I'm seriously impressed with this book, its very object oriented and explains a lot of concepts very well. It also has side notes that explain differences between coding certain examples for PHP 4 and for PHP 5.

As good as the book is, it would be more useful if you had some object oriented programming knowledge, but its not essential. It would also be good if you have a good grasp of PHP programming, this isnt a beginner's book. If you've ever marvelled at the coding behind phpbb, you'll understand that much much better after reading the first couple of chapters.

Definitely a good read for serious programmers and its concepts apply to a wide range of OOP languages (Java, C, C++...). I was telling my friend that the first 6 chapters covered my first 2 years of university!

Is great there are so many sites out there about php, with tutorials, explanations and even simple scripts that can be used at a start point for needed pieces inside a website.

I would also recommend MySQL ( http://www.mysql.com ) , as php and MySQL make a killer combination ( someone placed links to Apache and I think that MySQL is as relevant as Apache to php ).

SAMS--"Teach Yourself PHP in 10 minutes", covers PHP 5.0, 235pages, of around 25, 10 minute lessons, I also have "Teach Yourself Css in 10 minutes too!!, these are great books if you lack an attention span, it only takes 10 mins per chapter, and all the information is very well written, and to the point!!!, great books if you hate the 2000 page monsters like i do!!!;). and there all under $15 too!!.

Some good hungarian pages:
http://www.phpstudio.hu
http://www.tutrorial.hu

For a PHP editor, notepad2 is very good.
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Also... I just launched the best version of my site but its not good enough for that list yet, needa maby, another 200 quality PHP tutorials and maby the resources section completed before it's worth me wondering if you will add it.

In my searches over the Internet I come to conclusion there is limited number of sites with info/instructions for PHP in Croatian language - so I created one with some basics http://phptutorial.odlican.net

I learned the basics on school later on I used W3school and php dot net. When I wanted to make something I studied first some (so not one) tutorials to look at their approach. My first scripts I shared on forums so I could receive some quality feedback.

The best application I have come accross so far is PHP Designer ... It's seriously cool ...

I love that editor. I first started using it when it was completely free lol

However, I always ran into problems which made me stop using it I would get crazy little errors (while typing such as putting double dollar signs in front of varibles randomly and other strange things) when typing after using it for an extended period of time.

This has never happened to me ... I now use version 6.1 ... I know 7 has been released, will probably switch over when I have time to set up all my settings etc again ... I think maybe the newer versions have all these issues fixed ...

I suggest to add free PHP/HTML/CSS Editor - Codelobster PHP Edition.

please Edit links to in Post #1 and #2
Links to it dead.


I agree, I start my Php Coding on Code Lobster