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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
• Evil Walrus
  A growing list of PHP scripts
• Nexen’s scripts librairy
  An exhaustive PHP scripts collection, with more 800 useful functions (English and French).
• PHP Foundry 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.
• ZPmag
  ZPmag is a webzine (exclusively online distribution newspaper), dedicated to PHP and its technologies (in French).

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.
• Zend Technologies, Inc.
  Zend Technologies, Inc. provides tools to Develop, Protect and Scale your PHP Applications.

PHP Accelerators

• After Burner
  Free open source accelerator available from Bware Technologies.
• APC
  Alternative PHP Cache, Free open source accelerator available from Community Connect.
• 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

• Copyleft
  Some t-shirts, hats and stickers with the Copyleft variant of the PHP logo on them.
• 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
  • PHPsite.com.br
    Brazilian PHP portal featuring tutorials, downloads, a forum and more
• 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.
• 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.
  • phpfr
    Le site de référence sur PHP en France!
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • php.martin-jansen.de
    German PHP resource (especially for newbies)
  • 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.
• Russian
  • phpclub.net
    International PHPClub community based in Russia. Forums, articles, lessons, consulting.
  • php.net.ua
    PHP in Russian. Full Russian documentation.
• Spanish
  • lpsz.org
    PHP news, articles , and scripts.
  • php.com.ve
    PHP dedicated site in Venezuela
  • 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

• Turkish
  • phpkaynak.com
    A Turkish PHP portal site with articles, links, downloads, tutorials, courses, source code, forums, news, and much more about PHP & MySQL