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Top 5 PHP Resource Websites

November 30, 2008 No comments yet

PHP is a very vast language. It’s hard to say that you’ve mastered it. For example, do you know how to crop an image using GD and process web requests with XML-RPC off the top of your head? You may know one of them, but probably not both. That being said, there are a lot of resources out there that help you learn the basics of PHP – Processing forms, security, database interactions and array manipulation. I’ve compiled a list of 5 websites that I think will help you learn the ‘basics’ of PHP as well as taking them a step further.

KillerPHP.com’s Video Tutorials
I used these when I was initially learning PHP and are still a great resource today. These screencasts are typically 10 minutes long and cover the absolute basics – getting your development enviroment up and running to variables and includes.

  • Local server setup
  • Variables
  • Arrays
  • Includes
  • Loops
  • Form Processing
  • Functions
  • Sessions
  • OOP

Pixel2Life’s Tutorial Index
Pixel2Life is a tutorial index where bloggers can submit their tutorials and articles. The result of hundreds of people doing this is a very large library of ‘specialised’ links. For example, at the time of writing this, the frontpage contains tutorials about Twitter, Code Igniter, Gravatars and Converting Excel to CSV with PHP.…