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PHP Programming Resources

Important articles and links

• PHP: a fractal of bad design Infamous PHP Critique written in 2012, helped language evolve a lot since.
• Re-visiting »PHP: a fractal of bad design« in 2020
• PHP Delusions - PHP evolves and improves because it accepts criticism gracefully.

Official docs and other resources

• PHP Official docs
• PHP-FIG - Standards matter
• A brief introduction to PHP Namespacing
• ziadoz/awesome-php - A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
• sitepoint-editors/awesome-symfony - A list of awesome Symfony bundles, utilities and resources.
• chiraggude/awesome-laravel - A curated list of bookmarks, packages, tutorials, videos and other cool resources from the Laravel ecosystem.
• codeigniter-id/awesome-codeigniter - A list of awesome CodeIgniter core, helpers, hooks, language, libraries, third_party and other cool resources for CodeIgniter.

Frameworks

• Symfony - Popular and highly used PHP framework, inspired by Java's spring.
• CodeIgniter - Another good PHP framework, created by Ellis Labs and presently maintained by British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
• Laravel - Yet another PHP web framework, created and promoted by Taylor Otwell.
• yii - Developed by Yahoo Inc., the word literally means "simple and evolutionary" in Chinese language, and is also an acronym for "Yes, It Is!".
• cakephp - Based on the MVC approach, modeled after Ruby on Rails.
• Laminas Project (formerly zend framework) - An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 7 and licensed under the New BSD License.

CMS

• Drupal - Multi-purpose CMS, powers the White House.
• Wordpress - Powers most blogs of this world.
• Fuelcms - Built with CodeIgniter, FuelCMS is a popular and reputed name in the PHP world.
• Joomla - CMS helping both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites and applications.
• Magento - Powers many shopping carts.
• Limesurvey - Wonderful survey tool/CMS.
• CraftCMS - Flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.

Libraries

Build and Devops

• phpunit - Standard unit testing framework in the php world.
• prophecy - Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP.
• mockery - Simple yet flexible PHP mock object framework.
• php-parser - PHP parser written in PHP.

Networking

• guzzle - HTTP client library for PHP.
• PHP-Websockets - An open implementation of WebSockets in php.
• PHPMailer - The classic email sending library for PHP.
• swiftmailer - Another feature-right php mailer library.

Others

• twig - The flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP.
• PHPExcel - A pure php library to export/import data in Microsoft Excel format.
• phpList - Mailing list software.
• php-markdown - A handy markdown-converter (to/from html) in php.
• Archon - Data Analysis package for PHP, the rought equivalent of Python's PANDAS.

IDE and Tools

• Composer - De-facto package manager for php.
• Packagist - De-facto hosting facility for hosting composer packages.
• EclipsePDT - The IDE used by most professional php developers.
• PHPStorm - Another great IDE which has a big number of fans.
• Zend IDE - A proprietary php IDE.

Online tutorials, books, puzzles, forums

• w3schools - PHP
• CodeIgniter forums
• PHP the right way
• HTMLgoodies PHP tutorials
• Tizag PHP tutorials
• Nettuts+
• PHP T-Point - Tutorials
• PHP Freaks - Forums

Blogs and Help sites

• Laravel News - Laravel News is the official blog of Laravel.
• PHP Gurukul - PHP Programming Blog with many examples and sample projects, started by a Delhiite named Anuj Kumar.
• www.phpclasses.org - PHP Classes Repository.
• php[architect] - A magazine dedicated to PHP programming language. It was founded in 2002 by Marco Tabini and his group The BlueParabola.
• phpmagazine.net - Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and developments in PHP programming with PHPMagazine.net.