PHP Starter Guide

To gain a full understanding of what PHP can do for your website, please visit the Official PHP site for all related topics.

What is PHP?
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you are completely new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, have a look at the introductory tutorial. Once you get beyond that, have a look at the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the links section.

Introductory Tutorial - http://www.php.net/tut.php
PHP is a tool that lets you create dynamic web pages. PHP-enabled web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you normally create regular HTML pages.

What do I need?
Just create your files, name them .php extension and put them in your web directory and the server will magically parse them for you. There is no need to compile anything nor do you need to install any extra tools. Think of these PHP-enabled files as simple HTML files with a whole new family of magical tags that let you do all sorts of things.

PHP Related Links:
PHP Manual - http://www.php.net/docs.php
PHP FAQ's - http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.php
PHP Books - http://www.php.net/books.php
PHPUK - http://www.phpuk.org/
PHPUK mailing list - http://www.phpuk.org/join.php
HotScripts.com - http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/

PHP Books, Magazine Articles, Communities, Scripts and Programs, Softwares, Tips
PHP Resource Index - http://php.resourceindex.com/

Hundreds of PHP resources, categorized and searchable PHP Sites
PHP Webring - http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=php&list

Find PHP Sites within this webring!

PHP Web Design Software
PHP Coder - http://www.phpide.de/

PHP Coder is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) especially developped for PHP programmers. Through tight integration of the PHP interpreter and the PHP documentation, PHP Coder gives you a time-saving Development Interface.




PHP Coder Screenshot

Features are Full Integration of the PHP Interpreter and the PHP documentation, Integrated Preview window, Full Syntax Highlighting for HTML and PHP, AutoComplete for frequently used text constructs, Project manager, Tag Buttons and all the standard editing functions like almost unlimited undo, copy and paste, searching, ... And it is quite small compared to other language's IDEs and loads pretty fast. And the best, it's FREE.