Web / PHP Resource Thread

[Rathamon]

Download:

www.php.net (php homepage)

www.apache.org (apache homepage)

Setup

www.ybotherk.com (contains an article on setting apache/php up on UNIX)

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/44/index4a.html

Code:

www.evilwalrus.com (php coding site)

www.devshed.com (general site with lots of info)

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/

www.newbienetwork.net

www.phpbuilder.com

http://webmasterbase.com/subcats/53

Basic Info

check your server has php enabled; add this to a file called phpinfo.php - "<? php_info() ?>" - no question marks.

Compiled links from Rathamon, PigeonHead, SyS_Reactor, and prasanth - timdorr heavy moderating industries

[Xirgo]

If you guys are looking for a PHP framework that has the MVC architecture you should take a look at CakePHP.

I've been messing with CakePHP for the past two weeks and I'm really impressed with it so far; it's easy to use and it has many amazing built-in features such as AJAX helpers, javascript, HTML forms, built-in validation, application scaffolding and so much documentation at their Manual/API and at The Bakery.

Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

[generalt]

Free PHP hosting at PHPnet

3 MySQL databases and only one banner at the bottom of the page... Great for testing out your scripts if you're like me and gave up trying to install WAMPP on your computer...

[b3n]

php is supposed to process and spit out html, but im thinking if i can use php with javascript... is that possible? like, just for content in alert boxes generated by php...

You can use php to write javascript. i.e.

<script type="text/javascript">

<?

$variable = "test";

echo "alert('".$variable."')";

?>

</script>

You can also use ajax to execute php scripts with POST and GET.

You can then use the output in your javascript.