Around the PHP Community

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For new and veteran PHP programmers alike, it’s often difficult to find the right place to ask questions and find the best answers and solutions to programming challenges. This month, Ben Ramsey takes us on a journey through the PHP Community to discover the websites the experts use to get PHP news and information and the places they go to ask for help (because even experts need help). He’ll wrap up the talk with a brief who’s who in the PHP Community, introducing you to some of the core developers and familiar faces around the community.

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Ben Ramsey8 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.netnews://news.php.net/php.windows

• pear-general@lists.php.netnews://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 Developmentby 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 developerUnicode/PHP 6

PHP-GTKSmarty

Brett Bieberhttp://saltybeagle.com

@saltybeagle on Twitter

PEAR developer

Cal Evanshttp://blog.calevans.com@CalEvans on Twitter

Director of the PHP Center of Expertise at IBuildings

Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Zend DevZone

Chris Shifletthttp://shiflett.org

@shiflett on Twitter

PHP security expertCTO at OmniTI

Chris Joneshttp://blogs.oracle.com/opal

@ghrd on Twitter

Works for Oracleoci8 & PDO_OCI

Davey Shafikhttp://www.pixelated-dreams.com

@dshafik on Twitter

Author and speaker

David Sklarhttp://www.sklar.com/blog

Author and speakerSoftware Architect at Ning

Derick Rethans

http://derickrethans.nl@derickrethans on Twitter

PHP core developerDateTime

Ed Finklerhttp://funkatron.com

@funkatron on Twitter

Author and speakerRIA expert

Creator of Spaz

Eli Whitehttp://eliw.wordpress.com

@EliW on Twitter

Author and speakerZendʼs new Community Guy

Elizabeth Marie Smith

http://elizabethmariesmith.com@auroraeosrose on Twitter

PHP core devPHP Windows geek

PHP-GTKCo-founder of PHPWomen.org

Elizabeth Naramorehttp://www.naramore.net/blog

@ElizabethN on Twitter

Co-founder of PHPWomen.orgEditor at php|architect

php|tek & php|works Conference Chair

Gopal Vijayaraghavan

http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog@t3rmin4t0r on Twitter

PHP core developerpecl/apc

Greg Beaverhttp://greg.chiaraquartet.net

PEAR developerPHAR

Cello player

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