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Ben Ramsey
8 Jan 2009 • Atlanta PHP

The PHP Projects

php.net

pear.php.net

pecl.php.net

gtk.php.net

qa.php.net

Getting Help

phpfreaks.com

codewalkers.com

phpbuilder.com

devshed.com/c/b/PHP/

devnetwork.net

pear-forum.org

sitepoint.com

atlantaphp.org

RTFM!
http://php.net/manual

Mailing Lists

Mailing Lists
• php-general@lists.php.net
news://news.php.net/php.general
• php-windows@lists.php.net
news://news.php.net/php.windows
• pear-general@lists.php.net
news://news.php.net/php.pear.general
• http://news.php.net

Internet Relay Chat

IRC
• ##php on Freenode
• #pear on EFNet
• #mysql on Freenode
• #apache on Freenode
• #phpc on Freenode
• #atlantaphp on Freenode

Getting on IRC
• XChat -- http://www.xchat.org
• XChat Aqua --
http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net
• Colloquy -- http://colloquy.info
• mIRC -- http://www.mirc.com
• irssi -- http://irssi.org

Getting on IRC
• Freenode: http://freenode.net
• EFNet: http://efnet.org
• Join a channel:
/join ##php

Must-Read Books

Beginning PHP5,
Apache, MySQL
Web Development
by Elizabeth Naramore, Jason Gerner,
Yann Le Scouarnec, Jeremy Stolz,
Michael K. Glass

PHP and
MySQL Web
Development
by Luke Welling and
Laura Thomson

Learning
PHP 5
by David Sklar

PHP
Cookbook
by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg

Advanced PHP
Programming
by George Schlossnagle

Essential
PHP Security
by Chris Shiflett

Zend PHP 5
Certification
Study Guide
by Davey Shafik
and Ben Ramsey

News & Information

phpdeveloper.org

phparch.com

c7y.phparch.com

devzone.zend.com

phpinfo.com

The PHP
Blogosphere

planet-php.net

Andrei
Zmievski
http://gravitonic.com
@a on twitter
PHP core developer
Unicode/PHP 6
PHP-GTK
Smarty

Brett Bieber
http://saltybeagle.com
@saltybeagle on Twitter
PEAR developer

Cal Evans
http://blog.calevans.com
@CalEvans on Twitter
Director of the PHP Center of
Expertise at IBuildings
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Zend DevZone

Chris Shiflett
http://shiflett.org
@shiflett on Twitter
PHP security expert
CTO at OmniTI

Chris Jones
http://blogs.oracle.com/opal
@ghrd on Twitter
Works for Oracle
oci8 & PDO_OCI

Davey Shafik
http://www.pixelated-dreams.com
@dshafik on Twitter
Author and speaker

David Sklar
http://www.sklar.com/blog
Author and speaker
Software Architect at Ning

Derick
Rethans
http://derickrethans.nl
@derickrethans on Twitter
PHP core developer
DateTime

Ed Finkler
http://funkatron.com
@funkatron on Twitter
Author and speaker
RIA expert
Creator of Spaz

Eli White
http://eliw.wordpress.com
@EliW on Twitter
Author and speaker
Zendʼs new Community Guy

Elizabeth
Marie Smith
http://elizabethmariesmith.com
@auroraeosrose on Twitter
PHP core dev
PHP Windows geek
PHP-GTK
Co-founder of PHPWomen.org

Elizabeth
Naramore
http://www.naramore.net/blog
@ElizabethN on Twitter
Co-founder of PHPWomen.org
Editor at php|architect
php|tek & php|works Conference Chair

Gopal
Vijayaraghavan
http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog
@t3rmin4t0r on Twitter
PHP core developer
pecl/apc

Greg Beaver
http://greg.chiaraquartet.net
PEAR developer
PHAR
Cello player

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