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General

• A Brief Introduction to PHP.: Hypertext Preprocessor – Phil Davis
• A Tour of Decision Making Structures in PHP – Timothy Boronczyk
• Absolute Beginners – Zend
• Beginning PHP: One Goal at a Time – Ali Al-Athary
• Beginning PHP4 – This manuscript is an abridged version of Chapter 16 from the Wrox Press book Beginning PHP4
• Easy-peasy PHP- Jim Amos
  • Easy-peasy PHP 2 – Jim Amos and Mike Papageorge
• Intro to PHP – Stirling Hughes
• Killer PHP – For Web Designers – Stefan Mischook
• Learning PHP – Part 1 – Thomas Pletcher
• Practical PHP Programming Wiki – Paul Hudson
• PHP and MySQL. Programming for Beginners – eTutorials
• PHP For Newbies – Part 1: The Basics – Justin Kozuch
• PHP Programming Basics – Haroon Ahmad
• PHP Statements and Beginning Loops – James Payne
• PHP Tutorial – cramerz
• PHP Tutorial – Richard Martin
• PHP Tutorial – tizag.com
• PHP Tutorial – w3schools
• PHP Tutorial: Introduction – Vince Barnes
• Server-side Scripting – Lars Gunther
• The ABC’s of PHP: Introduction to PHP- Peter Shaw
  • The ABC’s of PHP Part 3 – Basic Script Building in PHP – Peter Shaw
  • The ABC’s of PHP Part 4 – How Variable Am I? – Peter Shaw
  • The ABC’s of PHP – Part 10 – The Final Installment – Peter Shaw
• The Building Blocks: Data Types, Literals, Variables, and Constants- Ellie Quigley
  • Data Types, Literals, Variables, and Constants – Part 2 – Ellie Quigley
  • Data Types, Literals, Variables, and Constants – Part 3 – Ellie Quigley
• Tutorial – PHP and MySQL – etutorials
• Using the Manual at PHP.net – Jeffery Vaska
• Variables in PHP – Iain Tench
• What Does PHP Stand For? – Kristen Grubb

AJAX and PHP

• AJAX and PHP – David Mytton
• AJAX and PHP Part 2 – XML Communication/Processing – Jon Campbell
• Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional – Lee Babin
• Database-Enabled Ajax with PHP – Kris Hadlock
• Introduction to PHP and Ajax – Anthony Corbelli
• PHP/Ajax Integration – Douglas Clifton
• Track Browser Resizing in Your Database Using AJAX – part 1- Tom Muck
  • Track Browser Resizing in Your Database Using AJAX – part 2 – Tom Muck
• XMLHttpRequest and AJAX for PHP Programmers, Part 1- James Kassemi
  • XMLHttpRequest and AJAX for PHP Programmers, Part 2 – James Kassemi

Arrays

• 10 PHP Tricks for Associative Array Manipulation – W. Jason Gilmore
• Arrays, HTML, and PHP – Tim Perdue
• Better Array Syntax for PHP: Here’s Your Chance to Weigh In – Nate Abele
• Big Arrays in PHP – Brian Moon
• Five Cool PHP Array Functions – Brandon Savage
• Generic Arrays in PHP – Maarten Balliauw
• Introduction to PHP Arrays – J. Armando Jeronymo
• Introduction to Arrays and Hashes in PHP – Peter Shaw
• Overloading Arrays in PHP 5.2.0 – Matthew Weier O’Phinney
• PHP 101 (part 4): The Food Factor (Arrays, PHP array functions, and what it all means) – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP: Sorting arrays randomly with array_randsort() – Tiffany B. Brown
• Real Programming with PHP 5.3 (part 1): Array Processing – Dagfinn Reiersol
• Sorting 2D-arrays in PHP – Anecdotes and Reflections – prodevtips
• The Switch Statement and Arrays – James Payne

Classes

• Abstract Classes in PHP – Working with PHP 5 – Alejandro Gervasio
• Auto Loading Classes in PHP 5 – Alejandro Gervasio
• Classes and PHP – Rod Kreisler
• Class Inheritance with PHP – Kris Hadlock
• Faking Dual Inheritance Classes in PHP – Art Lathrop
• Real Programming with PHP 5.3 (part 2): JavaScript-style Classes – Dagfinn Reiersol
• Tutorial – Writing Classes in PHP – Brian Haase

CSS and PHP

• Build A Simple Style Switcher in CSS – Laurence Veale
• Build Your Own PHP Style Sheet Switcher – Roger Johansson
• Compressing your CSS with PHP – Mike Papageorge
• CSS Colors: Take Control Using PHP – Patrick Fitzgerald
• Dynamic CSS with PHP – Timothy Boronczyk
• Generating Dynamic CSS with PHP – Doug Clifton
• Introducing PHP AutoRun and a CSS Tutorial – Mike Cherim
• Introducing UDASSS (Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher) – Dustin Diaz
• Maintainable CSS3 Using PHP – Louis Lazaris
• Making a Font Selector – Mike Cherim
• Suture CSS or JavaScript Files to Reduce HTTP Requests – Andrew B. King
• Time Sensitive CSS – Nathan Smith
• Working With Fractions In CSS and PHP – Bernard Peh

Database Related Tutorials

• ADOdb Library for PHP
• Beginning Database Design, Part I – Joel D Canfield
• Binary Data + MySQL + PHP – Florian Dittmer
• Building Next/Prev Buttons for Query Results – Rod Kreisler
• Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL – SitePoint
• Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL, Part 1- Marc Wandschneider
  • Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL, Part 2 – Marc Wandschneider
• Creating Database-driven Websites with PHP and MySQL – Jochen Rode and his co-workers
• Cross-Platform Database PHP Development – Daniel Williams
• Database Abstraction – Allan Kent
• Database Abstraction in PHP – Ian Gilfillan
• Designing a Database-driven PHP App? Don’t Forget the Data!!
• Failover Database Connection with PHP + mySQL – Stephen Belue
• Five Common PHP Database Problems – Jack Herrington
• Getting PHP to Talk to MySQL – Michele Davis and Jon Phillips
• MySQL and PHP: How to Make it Work Without Killing Your Server – Marc Plotz
• PHP 101 (part 8): Databases and Other Animals (All about connecting to a MySQL database from PHP, using the mysql or mysqli extensions.) – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP 101 (part 9): SQLite My Fire! ( Introducing another database: SQLite.) – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP and Working with Databases – Justin Vincent
• phpHoo (Integrating PHP with MySQL ) – webreference
• PHP Web Databases – Keith Brown
• So You Want to Use a Database in Your Site? – Jesus Castagnetto
• Storing Checkbox Data In Your Database – Dan LaFlamme
• The PHP Anthology Volume 1, Chapter 3 – PHP and MySQL – Harry Fuecks
• Top 10 MySQL Mistakes Made by PHP Developers – Craig Buckler
• What are Database Driven Websites (Podcast) – Stefan Mischook
• Your SQL Database Might Just Be MySQL – John Paul Ashenfelter

Debugging and Problems

• 10 Productive PHP Tools for Testing and Debugging – W. Jason Gilmore
• An Introduction to the Art of Unit Testing in PHP – padraic
• Commenting on Commenting – Eli White
• Comprehensible Code – Paul Jones
• Debug PHP with Firebug and FirePHP – Louis Simoneau.
• Debugging: A Beginner’s Guide – Ben Smithers
• Debugging and Performance – George Schlossnagl
• Debugging PHP – David Sklar
• Don’t Commit That Error – Travis Swicegood
• Error Handling in PHP: Coding Defensively – Alejandro Gervasio
• Error Handling in PHP: Introducing Exceptions in PHP 5 – Alejandro Gervasio
• Debugging PHP: Did You Remember to “Dot All Your I’s and Cross All Your T’s”? – Michael M Krznaric
• Debugging Techniques for PHP Programmers – Tyler Anderson
• Four Sane Solutions for PHP Debugging – W. Jason Gilmore
• How to Debug in PHP – Kieran Masterton
• How to Decide What Bugs to Fix When, Part 1- Scott Berkun
  • How to Decide What Bugs to Fix When, Part 2 – Scott Berkun
• Improved Error Messages in PHP – Jeff Moore
• My Favorite Programming Mistakes – Paul Tero
• Not All Bugs Are Worth Fixing – Jeff Atwood
• PHP 101 (part 12): Bugging Out ( Basic error handling in PHP 4 and PHP 5) – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP Gotchas By John Herren
• PHPitfalls: Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid – Daryl L. L. Houston
• Time to proofread your code: The Checklist – Michael M Krznaric
• Use Responsibly – Matthew Weier O’Phinney
• Using Comments – Christopher Jason

File System

• File uploads made easy – Darren Beale
• Handling files with PHP4, Part1 – Ian Gilfillan
• Handling files with PHP4 – Part 2 – Ian Gilfillan
• PHP 101 (part 5): Rank and File – Vikram Vaswani
• Reading, Writing and Creating Files in PHP – Jacques Noah
• Uploading Files and Navigating Directories in PHP – Jacques Noah
• Uploading Multiple Files in HTML5 – Tiffany B. Brown

Form & Mail Related Tutorials

• Clever forms with PHP – Chris Heilmann
• Easier form validation with PHP – Simon Willison
• Email Forms in PHP – Dan Ball
• Form Over Substance – Part One – Urb LeJeune
• PHP for Contact Forms – Matthew Pennell
• PHP Form Validation System: An Object-Oriented Approach – Mike Weiner
• PHP Video: Processing Forms with PHP – part 1 – Stefan Mischook
• Processing Forms with PHP, a Beginner’s Guide – Joe Dolson
• Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form- Mike Cherim
  • Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form Stand-Alone v.2.0 – Mike Cherim
  • Secure and Accessible Contact Form v3 – Mike Cherim
• Securing PHP Contact Forms – Jonathan Nicol
• Sending Mail With PHP3 – Tim Perdue
• Sending MIME email in PHP – Kartic Krishnamurthy
• User Friendly Forms in PHP – jesteruk
• Using Abstract Factory Classes in PHP 5 to Work with Online Forms – Alejandro Gervasio
• Using PHP for Date Processing in Forms – Jackson Yee
• Working With Forms – William Steinmetz with Brian Ward

Functions

• Classes as PHP Functions – Jacques Noah
• How To Write A Function In PHP – Brandon Savage
• Introducing Recursive Functions in PHP – Rob Williams
• PHP 101 (part 6): Functionally Yours – (All about functions, arguments, passing by reference, globals and scope) – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP Function Table – Zend
• PHP Functions – Jacques Noah
• Using Callback Functions in PHP – Quentin Zervaas

Globals

• Fundamentals of PHP Superglobals – Ian Gilfillan

Loops

• Loops and Decisions in PHP – Peter Shaw
• Loops In PHP – Haroon Ahmad
• Looping in PHP – Timothy Boronczyk
• Loopy Control Structures – Tim Huegdon
• PHP 101 (part 3): Looping The Loop ( Basic control structures explained) – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP Statements and Beginning Loops – James Payne

Miscellaneous Tutorials

• Dates and Times
  • Date Manipulation in PHP – Allan Kent
  • How Do I Print the Date Using PHP? – Christopher Jason
  • What Time Is It? – Derick Rethans
• Randomizing
  • PHP: Image Randomizer – Mike Cherim
  • Random Image Rotation – Dan Benjamin
• Recursion In PHP: Tapping Unharnessed Power – Robert Peake
• Simple Templating – Dave Shea
• Using PHP Includes – Christopher Jason

Objects / Object Oriented Programming

• A Practical Approach to Object-Relational Mapping in PHP – Kieran Mathieson
• A Set of Objects in PHP – Arrays vs. SplObjectStorage – Matt Butcher
• Advanced PHP V5 Objects – Matt Zandstra
• An Introduction to OOP in PHP – phpdeveloper
• Beginner’s Object Oriented PHP Tutorial – Part 1 – Stefan Mischook
• Better Object Handling with PHP Singletons – Christian Montoya
• Classes and Objects (PHP 4) – php.net
• Enforcing Object Types in PHP: Filtering Input Objects in PHP 4 – Alejandro Gervasio
• Enforcing Object Types in PHP: Using the PHP5 instanceof Operator – Alejandro Gervasio
• Getting Started With Objects With PHP V5 – Matt Zandstra
• Getting Started with OOP & PHP5: Part 1- Lorna Jane Mitchell
  • Getting Started with OOP & PHP5: Part 2 – Lorna Jane Mitchell
• Introducing Visitor Objects in PHP 5 – Alejandro Gervasio
• Introduction to Creating Command Objects with PHP 5 – Alejandro Gervasio
• Introduction to PHP Objects, Part 1 – John Coggeshall
• The Basics of Serializing Objects in PHP – Alejandro Gervasio
• The PHP Anthology Volume 1, Chapter 2 – Object Oriented PHP – Harry Fuecks
• Three Advanced Object-Oriented PHP Features You Need to Know – W. Jason Gilmore
• Object Interaction in PHP: Introduction to Composition – Alejandro Gervasio
• Object-Oriented Concepts – Tim Huegdon
• Object Overloading in PHP 5 – Martin Jansen
• Object-Oriented PHP – Autoloading, Serializing, and Querying Objects – Matt Doyle
• Object-Oriented PHP for Absolute Beginners – Matt Doyle
• Object-Oriented PHP Part 1: Definition – Tim Huegdon
• Object-Oriented PHP: Working with Inheritance – Matt Doyle
• Object Oriented Programming in PHP: The Way to Large PHP Projects – Luis Argerich
• Object Orientated Programming- The Beginning – J. Leidago Noabeb
• Object-Oriented Programming Through Design Patterns – George Schlossnagle
• OOP With PHP: Finishing Touches – Lorna Jane Mitchell
• Overloading and Object-Oriented Programming with PHP 5 – George Schlossnagle
• PHP 101 (part 7): The Bear Necessities – Vikram Vaswani
• Simple Object Iterators in PHP – Craig Buckler
• Sophisticated Object Iterators in PHP – Craig Buckler
• The Basics of Implementing Adapter Objects with PHP – Alejandro Gervasio
• Three Advanced Object-Oriented PHP Features You Need to Know – W. Jason Gilmore

Operators

• PHP Operators – James Payne
• PHP 101 (part 1): Down The Rabbit Hole (An introduction to PHP’s variables and operators.) – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP 101 (part 2): Calling All Operators (The rest of the PHP operators (there are many), and simple form processing.) – Vikram Vaswani

Optimization

• A HOWTO on Optimizing PHP – John Lim
• Optimizing System Performance – George Schlossnagle
• More on PHP Performance – Stas Malyshev
• Simple Optimization for PHP and MySQL

Regular Expressions

• Introduction to Regular Expressions – Rob Williams
• Mastering Regular Expressions in PHP, Part 1 – Martin Streicher
• PHP and MySQL By Example – Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching – Ellie Quigley
• PHP and Regular Expressions 101 – Mitchell Harper
• Regular Expressions Tutorial – Mark

Security

• Introduction to PHP Security – Leidago
• Encryption Techniques for Your PHP Development – Leidago Noabeb
• Implementing One- way Encryption in PHP – Leidago Noabeb
• Mistrust and Verify – Kitt Hodsden
• PhpSecInfo – phpsec
• PHP 101 (part 13): The Trashman Cometh (A primer in basic security) – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP Abstract Episode 1 – PHP Security Tips
• PHP Security – Daniel Egeberg
• PHP Security: Are You Paying Attention? – Rafael Dohms
• PHP Security Consortium
• PHP Security From the Inside – Federico Biancuzzi
• Pro PHP Security/Preventing SQL Injection – Chris Snyder and Michael Southwell
• Secure Programming With PHP – Ian Gilfillan
• Securing PHP Contact Forms – Jonathan Nicol
• Securing PHP Include Files – Mike Cherim
• Security Techniques- Larry Ullman
  • Security Techniques: Part 2 – Larry Ullman
• Security Tip Number 1- Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 4 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 3 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 5 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 5 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 6 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 7 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 8 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 9 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • Security Tip Number 10 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 11 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 12 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 13 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 14 – Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 15- Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 16- Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 17- Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 18- Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 19- Cal Evans (editor)
  • PHP Security Tip Number 20 – Cal Evans (editor)
• Session Security – Marc Plotz
• Seven Habits for Writing Secure PHP Applications – Nathan A. Good
• Speed Up Your Website With PHP Buffer Flushing – Craig Buckler
• The PHP Anthology Volume 2, Chapter 1 -Access Control – Harry Fuecks
• Top 7 PHP Security Blunders – Pax Dickinson

Sessions/Cookies

• A Simple Sessions Tutorial – phpdeveloper
• Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML – David Dorward
• Introduction to Maintaining the State of Applications with PHP Sessions – Alejandro Gervasio
• Learning PHP 5: Remembering Users with Cookies and Sessions – David Sklar
• PHP 101 (part 10): A Session In The Cookie Jar – Vikram Vaswani
• PHP Sessions Video Tutorials – Part 1- Stefan Mischook
  • PHP Sessions Video Tutorials – Part 2 – Stefan Mischook
  • PHP Sessions Video Tutorials – Part 3 – Stefan Mischook
• Session Handling with PHP 4 – Tobias Ratschiller
• Session Security – Marc Plotz
• Validating PHP User Sessions – Kevin K. Nelson

Strings

• 10 Easy Solutions for PHP String Manipulation – W. Jason Gilmore
• High-Performance String Concatenation in PHP – Craig Buckler
• Select a Certain Number of Words from a String – Tiffany B. Brown
• String Manipulation in PHP – Christopher Jason
• The ABC’s of PHP Part 5 – Strings and Text – Peter Shaw

Comprehensive Sites

• O’Reilly Onlamp
• PHP Builder
• PHPDeveloper
• PHP Freaks
• phphelp.com
• PHPKitchen
• PHP Manual
• php.net – The official PHP site
• phpwiki – The Wiki for PHP Developers – Ian Gilfillan
• Totally PHP
• Yahoo! PHP Developer Center

Sample Scripts

• freshmeat.net
• The PHP Resource Index: Complete Scripts
• PHP Code Exchange
• php-scripts.com
• ScriptSearch

Articles & Related Links

• PHP Documentation Update – Hypertext Preprocessor