PHP

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Contents 1 Reference material 2 CSS 3 Tools 4 Images 5 Switch to PHP5 6 WYSIWYG editors 7 Articles 8 Books on PHP

[edit] Reference material

• PHP5 Power Programming PDF (and other free technical reference books)
• Mathworld for all things mathematics
• Yahoo User Interface design pattern library

[edit] CSS

• Style sheet switcher

[edit] Tools

• Fiddler is a http proxy debugging tool. Let's you inspect everything being sent from/to the server, and even let's you set breakpoints and tamper with the data being sent.

[edit] Images

8 Magazine layout images with PHP discusses a script that can resize images and display them in clever magazine like way

[edit] Switch to PHP5

• Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL covers migration including OOP and XML

[edit] WYSIWYG editors

• free standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor
• Kupu
• TinyMCE: Nice cross-platform (IE, FF, Safari (only early stages though) WYSIWYG html TextArea
• WYSIWYG editor test compares some WYSIWYG editors and scores them. Included are Kupu, TinyMCE, FCK-editor, EditOnPro, XStandard, CuteEditor, JXHTML-Edit and eWebEditPro. EditOnPro comes out top (commercial license) with TinyMCE the best open source solution.

[edit] Articles

• Painless Functional Specifications by Joel Spolsky.
• Project Aardvark spec Example Joel Spolsky spec
• Form mail spam by trying to put the headers in the content
• Wrapping text around an irregelularly outlined image

[edit] Books on PHP

• Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf, the man who invented PHP. Published by O'Reilly. The definitive reference for PHP.
• Web database applications with PHP and MySQL by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane for O'Reilly. Theoritical and practical information on how to build solid web applications with databases. Touches on security issues. This is a great book to help you on your way to make your first web application a professional one.
• PHP and PostGreSQL Advanced web programming by Ewald Geschwinde and Hans-Juergen Schoenig. Published by Sams. Aimed at people with a basic knowledge of database and web scripting languages. Learn to develop powerful, secure and inexpensive web applications.