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Wednesday, 22 March 2006 08:09

PHP has been a friend of mine since I was in high school. I used to sit around and crank out web code for a home jukebox in PHP 3. In fact, I believe I was there for the alpha and beta stages of PHP 3. Today we have PHP 5 and we are moving toward PHP 6.

There are many reasons to like PHP. For one, it feels a lot like C and C++. For the longest time PHP has lacked in the OO dept. Today with PHP5 that all changes.

Why PHP 5 rocks!
Advanced PHP Variables and Functions
Getting Up and Running with the PEAR Web Installer
PEAR and PECL Packaging Tutorial
Creating PEAR-installable nightly builds

PHP Presentation System
AJAX Frameworks in PHP
PHPUnit Pocket Guide
phing - PHing Is Not GNU make

Vcards in PHP
PHP vCard class v2.0
Contact_Vcard_Parse -PEAR package for parsing and building vCards.

iCalender (ical) in PHP
iCalcreator creates valid iCal files.

Taking Advantage of PEAR
PEAR Manual
A list of PEAR Tutorials from PHP Kitchen

What is there to love in PHP? How about the database abstraction libraries?! They are getting to where they should be...and in short time some great things will be possible.
Here are the reasons I love the DB_DataObject.
Introduction to DB_DataObject by AskBee.NET
Database frontend with DB_DataObject and DataGrid.
DB_DataObject_FormBuilder :: A Simple Tutorial
Three-Tier Development with PHP 5
Web forms are the most dreary damn things to write

Then there is the HTML_QuickForm,
PEAR HTML_QuickForm - Getting Started Guide
Using HTML_QuickForm To Manage Web Forms, Part 2
Using HTML_QuickForm & Smarty
HTML_QuickForm and Smarty - awesome.

Payment processors
Paypal, the PHP approach
How To Set Up a Donation System Using Paypal

PHP Tag Cloud Tutorial

symfony
http://bakery.cakephp.org/
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby
For those legacy apps, turn on the register_long_arrays within your .htaccess...instead of in the global php.ini

 
php_value register_long_arrays On
php_value upload_max_filesize 8M
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

Phalanger - PHP in .net!

The Pronto Project

Debugging PHP code
Xdebug - Debugger and Profiler Tool for PHP
How To Setup a Free PHP Debugger using Eclipse PDT + XDebug
xdebugclient - Google Code - is a simple Microsoft Windows frontend for the PHP debugger (C#)

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