PHP Resources

books.md

Books

PHP

• Modern PHP: New features and good practices (1491905018)
• Programming PHP (1449392776)
• PHP for the Web (0134291255)
• PHP Advanced and Object Oriented Programming (0321832183)
• PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide 5e (0134301846)
• Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (1491918667)
• Laravel - Up and Running (1491936088)
• Laracasts Recommended Reading

Quality

• Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules (1556159005)
• Clean Code: A handbook of agile software craftmanship (0132350882)

frameworks.md

Frameworks

Frameworks

• Laravel
• Symfony
• Codeigniter
• Yii Framework
• Phalcon
• CakePHP
• Zend Framework
• FuelPHP

Micro Frameworks

• Slim
• Flight

Component Libraries

• Aura
• Hoa
• League
• PHPixie

Components

Routers

• FastRoute - stars: 2.9k
• Klein - stars: 2.3k
• Pux - stars: 1.3k
• Toro - stars: 1.2k
• Macaw - stars: 763

Database

• Phinx - stars: 3.4k (cakephp)
• Medoo - stars: 3.1k
• Php-mysqli-database-class - stars: 2k
• Aura.sql - stars: 415
• EasyDB - stars: 346 (paragonie)
• Nette database - stars: 120

Templating

• Twig - stars: 4.9k (symfony)
• Plates - stars: 824 (theleague)
• Latte - stars: 365 (nette)
• Pug for PHP - stars: 228
• Dwoo - stars: 156
• Aura.view - stars: 64

help.md

Getting help with PHP

• irc.freenode.net: ##php
• irc.freenode.net:#phpmentoring
• php-mentoring.org
• /r/phphelp
• /r/webdev
• Hackhands Acquired by Pluralsight, unknown future
• Codementor
• Local college/uni.
• Stackoverflow Chat
  • PHP Room

learn.md

Learning Resources

Learn PHP

• PHP Official Manual
• phptherightway
• PHP in Y Minutes
• PSR-2 Coding Standards
• Laracasts
• PHP Must Watch
• PHP Enthusiast - OOP
• PHP Delusions - PDO, Mysqli
• PHP Appendices - New features and History
• How to make a redirect in PHP

Learn Security

• Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes
• Paragonie:
  • A gentle introduction to application security
  • 2018 Security Guide
  • Safe and Secure Sessions
  • How to generate Random Strings and Integers in PHP
  • Implementing Secure User Authentication in PHP...
• OWASP:
  • OWASP Top 10
  • OWASP Dev Guide
  • OWASP PHP Security Cheat Sheet - Some info outdated
• PHP Security
• Auth-Boss

Learn SQL

• SQLBolt
• SQLZoo
• GalaXQL
• Mode SQL Tutorial
• PostgreSQL Exercises
• Datacamp: Intro to SQL for Data Science
• Datacamp: Joining Data in PostgreSQL - $$
• Study by Yourself SQL Course
• Kaggle: SQL
• Use the Index Luke
• Strata Scratch - Interview Questions
• Codecademy SQL
• Sololearn SQL Course
• An Intermediate MySQL Tutorial
• SQL Server playlist by kudvenkat
• SQL Cookbook - Book
• SQLCourse
• SQLCourse2
• SQL-ex
• SQLRU
• Mastery with SQL - $$
• Select Star SQL
• SQL Murder Mystery Walkthrough for SQL Beginners
• SQL Murder Mystery

Learn Database Design

• wikipedia: Relational Model
• ntu.edu.sg: A quick start on database design
• troubleshooters.com: Normalization
• mikehillyer.com: An Introduction to Database Normalization
• phlonx.com: 3 Normal Forms Database Tutorial
• microsoft.com: Description of Database Normalization Basics
• barrywise.com: Database Normalization and Techniques
• anchor.com: Creating a Quick MySQL Database
• wikibooks: Relational Database Design
• tomjewett.com: Database Design with UML and SQL, 3e - Website no longer available
• tekstenuitleg.net: Database Design Tutorial - Website no longer available
• dbnormalization.com: Database Normalization - Website no longer available

Learn Other

• Learn Regex

template.md

Template Systems

Native

• plates

Compiled

• twig
• dwoo
• mustache

tools.md

Tools

PHP

• csfixer - Coding Standard Fixer
• Packagist - Package Repository
• Composer - Package Manager
• Psysh - PHP Console
• Carbon - Date/Time Helper
• Moment.php - Date/Time Helper, inspired by Moment.js
• Rachet - WebSocket Library
• Hoa Websocket - Websocket Library (nice detail)
• PHPMailer - Don't do your own email silly
• PHP Live Regex - Online Regex Editor
• strftime - Online Time/Date Formatting
• Simple HTML DOM Parser - HTML Parser
• Paragonie Projects
• vex - Load test your app
• tntsearch - Full text search
• phpfastcache - Object Caching
• guzzle - HTTP Client
• NinjaFirewall - WAF

Database

• SQLfiddle - Online Database Environment
• mycli - Command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, Percona
• poorsql - SQL Formatter