PHP Related Links

On these sites you will find tutorials, articles, example scripts, PHP related tools, jobs, web hosting services, etc.

PHP Support Companies

ThinkPHP.de
A German and international PHP support company providing full PHP support (single incidents, on-call duty), software development, training, and performance measurements.
Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies supports the PHP community and promotes PHP adoption. Founded by the authors of the Zend Engine and members of the PHP Group, Zend offers both free and commercial solutions for PHP.

Professional PHP Associations

AFUP.org
(Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP) : The AFUP was created to answer the growing need from companies to have one unique place for PHP solutions.
PHP Québec
PHP Québec promotes PHP for professional users in Québec, Canada. Every month, companies hold sessions about their use of PHP, their customer cases and their solutions.
New York PHP
International community supporting PHP adoption, projects and development.

PHP News

Planet PHP
Latest news aggregated from PHP related weblogs.

PHP Link Catalogs

dmoz.org
The PHP category in the Open Directory Project.
HotScripts.com
PHP Books, Magazine Articles, Communities, Scripts and Programs, Softwares, Tips
LinuxGuruz.org
Many Links and Tutorials, Articles and FAQ about Linux, Apache Web Server, HTML, PHP, MySQL ... and lots more
PHP Everywhere
Links and news about PHP and related technologies.
PHP Resource Index
Hundreds of PHP resources, categorized and searchable
PHP Sites Webring
Find PHP Sites within this webring!

PHP FAQ sites

alt-php-faq.org
A big faq and some links about PHP and SQL
de.comp.lang.php FAQ
Excellent german language FAQ about PHP
PHP Knowledge Base
A growing collection of PHP related information in a searchable question and answer format.

Complex PHP Related Sites

Codewalkers
A community site dedicated to PHP developers. Includes forums, tutorials, and user submitted code. Home of the PHP Coding Contest.
Developers Shed
A good set of articles introducing various PHP concepts
Dotgeek
A PHP and PostgreSQL community site with tutorials, articles, programming marathon and news.
Opendeveloper.org
Developing Open Web Sites With Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP-Perl
PHPBuilder.com
A bunch of helpful PHP resources available here
PHP Developers' network
The PHP Developers' Network was founded to provide the PHP Community with a set of solid sites that work together to promote the PHP language and provide a large resource for the community as a whole.
PHP Freaks
PHP Learning Center site.
PHP Traveller
PHP weblog, knowledge and link directory. Regularly updated collection of PHP resources.
WeberDev.com
PHP related resources (articles, tutorials, forums, advanced search etc.)
Zend.com DevZone
A community site for developers of all levels, including a code gallery, applications, tips, forums, tutorials and more.

PHP Scripts and Programs

freshmeat.net PHP Projects: A huge number of projects, both commercial and open source
Nexen's script library
An exhaustive collection of PHP scripts, with over 800 useful functions (French).
PHP projects at SourceForge
A great number of open source PHP projects actively developed
PX - PHP Code Exchange
The PHP Code Exchange is a great place to start. Here you'll find many example scripts and useful functions, organized for easy finding. Includes a search function
The PHP Classes Repository
Useful PHP classes in a categorized listing

PHP Magazines

Direction|PHP
Direction|PHP is a monthly French speaking magazine, dedicated to PHP and MySQL. It covers industry news and technology reviews. It is mainly downloaded by professionnals, in PDF format.
php|architect
The first monthly English magazine about PHP, distributed in PDF format
PHP Magazin
The Software & Support Verlag, based in Frankfurt, Germany, has now published a magazine on PHP as a tribute to the steadily growing German PHP community (in German).
PHP Magazine
An English edition of the magazine mentioned above. The PHP Magazine is published bimonthly and aimed at professional PHP users.
PHP Tunisie Magazine
PHP Tunisie Magazine is a monthly French speaking magazine, distributed in PDF format and dedicated to PHP and its related technologies. It's edited by the Tunisian PHP users group.

PHP Video and audio

DVD PHP Québec
The PHP Québec DVD was shot during the Montréal sessions, in 2003. It gathers 6 hours of advanced technics sessions, subtitled in French and English.
CD-ROM PHP Québec
The PHP Québec CD-ROM was recorded during the Montréal sessions, in 2004. It gathers 21 hours of advanced technics sessions in audio format, with the slides.

PHP Tutorials

Database enabled websites tutorial
Introductory tutorial
E-gineer Instructions
Lots of tutorials/instructions related to Apache, PHP and MySQL
justPhukit!
A collection of external links to PHP tutorials
Melonfire
A series of PHP tutorials for novices
ONLamp
Great collection of tutorials from O'Reilly
technisch web ontwerp
Site with information on a PHP course at a Dutch college.
TheScripts.com
Web Programming Resource - PHP Tutorials
Tutorialfind
A growing list of PHP tutorials at TutorialFind
Video tutorials
Video tutorials at Virtaul Training Company
Webmonkey PHP
The PHP section on the famous Webmonkey tutorial site
Zend.com DevZone
The tutorials section on the Zend.com developer zone

PHP Setup and Authoring Tools

List of installation kits
An extensive list of installation kits setting up servers and PHP for you in minutes.
PHP Editors List
A comprehensive list of editors you can use to edit PHP programs

Companies that provide commercial tools for PHP

ActiveState
ActiveState, a division of Sophos, produces Komodo, a professional integrated development environment (IDE) for open source languages.
InterAKT Online
InterAKT Online provides quality software development tools used by tens of thousands of PHP developers around the world, including PHAkt and Krysalis.
ionCube
ionCube produces PHP development and end-user tools, including the popular free PHP Accelerator and affordable encoding solutions for code protection.
Macromedia
Macromedia created Dreamweaver MX, a rapid web application development tool supporting PHP.
Maguma
Maguma produces an IDE with debugging to speed up the development of PHP enabled websites and applications.
SourceGuardian
SourceGuardian produces tools to help commercial developers distribute their scripts safely including the popular SourceGuardian Pro for encrypting and obfuscating PHP source code.
NuSphere
NuSphere delivers products and services that allow companies to deploy reliable, cost-effective database-driven Internet applications and sites.
WaterProof
WaterProof produce PHPEdit, an IDE mainly targetted to PHP development with integrated debugger and tools to speed up and enhance quality of your php projects.
Zend Technologies, Inc.
Zend Technologies, Inc. provides tools to Develop, Protect and Scale your PHP Applications.

PHP Accelerators

APC
Alternative PHP Cache, Free open source accelerator available from Community Connect.
EAccelerator
A fork of Turck MMCache.
ionCube PHP Accelerator
A free accelerator available from ionCube.
Turck MMCache for PHP
Free open source accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache from TurckSoft.
Zend Accelerator
Commercial accelerator available from Zend Technologies, Inc.

PHP Merchandise

PHP projects' merchandise
A search result page with various PHP related projects' shops (not all results are necessarily PHP related!)

Non-English PHP Sites

Bosnian
- PHP.co.ba
  Bosnian site with PHP and SQL manual, tutorials, scripts, forum, mailing list, tools, books...
Brazilian
- PHPBrasil.com
  Brazilian PHP portal with many links and information
Chinese
- Exceed PHP
  Opensource site with PHP, MySQL and Apache tutorials, articles and scripts
Croatian
- PHP.izvor (PHP.source)
  Croatian site with news, source code, manuals, beginners guides, forums, questions & answers, on-line help for programmers, polls, tools, etc.
Czech Republic
- PHP tricks
  Weblog about PHP programming
Dutch
- Pagina
  A Dutch PHP portal that lists a lot of PHP links, including free hosting
Estonian
- PHP Center
  The biggest Estonian portal site with tutorials, manual translations, discussion board, chat room, link collection, news, etc.
French
- Nexen.net
  Home of PHP French documentation, with comprehensive technical information, and all PHP related news
- phpdebutant
  Apprendre le PHP par l'exemple, facilement et simplement. Réservé d'abord aux débutants.
- phpfrance
  Pour tout savoir sur le PHP, en français. Vous trouverez un tutorial, des exemples, des astuces, toute la documentation nécessaire, ainsi que des forums pour poser des questions.
- PHPIndex
  A French gateway to PHP related contents
- PHPscripts-fr
  More than 500 PHP applications, listed and sorted
- phpsecure.info
  Everyday PHP applicatoins advisories, bugs and vulnerabilities.
- phpTeam
  Site traitant du PHP pour les professionels (php et flash, mysql, postgresql, pear,...)
- FAQ of the French PHP newsgroup : fr.comp.lang.php
  (was: fr.comp.infosystemes.www.auteurs.php)
German
- php::bar
  PHP related wiki
- PHP Center
  German speaking portal site with tutorials, tips and tricks, job advertisements, articles and more
- PHP-Homepage
  German site about PHP with scripts, tips, forums, MyGuestBook, articles, news and more
- Dynamic-Webpages
  German site with installation guides, tips & scripts, BestOfGML, WhoIsWho - a view on german PHP-cracks, german manual, book reviews, links and more
- PHPCrawler
  Searchengine over German PHP-sites with webaccess to newsgroups
- PHPWelt
  A German website using PHP to offer free services, a huge script-archive, free scripts, tutorials and many more
- develnet.org
  Some German tutorials about PHP
- SelfPHP
  German function reference for PHP like SelfHTML for HTML
- phpGTK.de
  German site about PHPGTK
- php-resource.de
  This german php community gives you everything you need. A large script-archive, lots of tutorials and a qualified moderated forum that answers nearly all your question
- www.phpreferenz.de
  Free printable workshops for PHP newcomers
Hungarian
- PHP.lap.hu
  Starting point for Hungarian and International PHP sites
- Weblabor
  Fresh news, articles, links and mailing lists from the world of web development and PHP
Italian
- FreePHP.HTML.it
  The biggest Italian speaking source for PHP: daily updated links to scripts, articles, tutorials and many other resources.
- Tutorials.it
  An Italian site that provides a variety of developer tutorials, with a small PHP section
- PHPcenter.it
  An Italian-language PHP site that features a variety of projects, reviews, courses, tutorials and other resources
- Risorse.net
  Section of an Italian site that provides tutorials about PHP, hundreds of scripts, books and a list of free and pay webhosts which support PHP
Norwegian
- PHP@sindrem.com (http://www.sindrem.com)
  Norwegian site for newbies and intermediates. Installation help and scripts.
Persian
- IranPHP.net
  A site about PHP for Iranians, with news and forums.
Polish
- php.pl
  Daily updated website with articles, translations, the biggest PHP Polish forum, dedicated IRC server, legal information section, etc.
Portuguese
- Cidadela
  The PHP section of Cidadela provides articles, tutorials, a help forum, and an Application Market.
Romanian
- PHPromania.net
  Romanian PHP Community, articles, tutorials, online discussions and forums.
Russian
- phpclub.net
  International PHPClub community based in Russia. Forums, articles, lessons, consulting.
- php.net.ua
  PHP in Russian. Full Russian documentation.
Spanish
- PHP en Castellano
  Spanish PHP community. Articles, tutorials, courses, source code, forums, and more about PHP.
- zonaphp.com
  News and tutorials
Swedish
- phpportalen.net
  A Swedish PHP portal with articles, news, forums and much more

Developers and Job Opportunities

Here's a list of sites with that publish PHP-related job listings:

dice.com
getafreelancer.com
gnujobs.com
hotjobs.com
Jobs.com
Mojolin
Monster.com
php-freelancers.com
phpcareer.com
totalfreelance.com
Yahoo! Careers
Zend.com PHP Jobs

For a more exhaustive list of job search sites on the web, take a look at dmoz.org's Job Search listings.

ISPs that support PHP

Looking for an ISP or hosting service that supports PHP? The following sites list some providers:

dmoz.org's web hosting index
free-php-hosting.com
Oinko free PHP hosting directory
PHP Host Directory at Codewalkers
WeberDev's Hosting Provider Listing

Support tips and links

PHP licensed software