References

• www.php.net— The best place to look for information is the PHP online manual. It is comprehensive, well written, and updated regularly.

• www.phpbuilder.net— A large PHP scripts and tutorials site where you can learn new techniques and also chat with other PHP developers.

• www.zend.com— The home page of a company founded by two of the key developers of PHP. Zend develops and sells proprietary software, including a powerful IDE and a code cache, to aid PHP developers.

• http://pear.php.net/— The home of the PEAR project contains a large collection of software you can download and try, and it has thorough documentation for it all.

• www.phparch.com/— There are quite a few good PHP magazines around, but PHP Architect probably leads the way. It posts some of its articles online for free, and its forums are good, too.

• Quality books on PHP abound, and you are certainly spoiled for choice. For beginning developers, the best available is PHP and MySQL Web Development (Sams Publishing). For a concise, to-the-point book covering all aspects of PHP, check out PHP in a Nutshell (O’Reilly). Finally, for advanced developers, you can consult Advanced PHP Programming (Sams Publishing).