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Chapter 16
Ten PHP Resources You
Can’t Live Without
In This Chapter
Where to find articles and tutorials
Where to find code libraries
O
ne advantage of PHP is its growing developer community. Many people
use it, and the PHP community is helpful. Many resources are available
online. This chapter describes the most useful resources. Remember that you
are not alone.
The PHP Web Site
This is the official PHP Web site. Here, new versions of PHP are released for
download, and the PHP manual is online. You can find anything that you need
to know about PHP here.
www.php.net
PHP Lists
When you’ve struggled for days with some recalcitrant code that stubbornly
refuses to run, take it to the lists. Hundreds of PHP developers frequent the
lists, and these folks know everything. Post a question to a PHP list, and you
often have the answer before your finger is off your mouse key. You’ll find
different lists for different subjects:
php-general
,
php-db
,
php-install
,
php-windows
, and others. You can sign up for the lists on the PHP Web site.
The PHP lists have a lot of traffic. You can easily get more than 100 e-mail mes-
sagesper day. However, when you are starting with PHP, reading the messages
that other coders ask and the solutions that they receive can greatly help you
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