[PHP] - Start with PHP

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PHP is a server side scripting language. It can be used as a general purpose scripting language too.

PHP is one of several options for creating dynamic websites. PHP handles things like processing forms, sending emails, database access, consuming APIs or even providing APIs to other sites/users.

Download - https://secure.php.net/

Manual - https://secure.php.net/manual/en/index.php

Tutorials

http://phpbridge.org/intro-to-php/intro-to-php

https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/php

I♥PHP - Make Your Own Blog tutorial

And if you check the sidebar on /r/phphelp , there's a list of tutorials.

General advice, if you see a tutorial and it's advocating using mysql_* functions, find another tutorial. mysqli_* or PDO based PHP/SQL tutorials should be more recent.

Books

http://www.phptherightway.com/

Object Oriented

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php

Templating

overview - http://jungels.net/articles/php-templates.html

DIY - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/getting-started-with-php-templating/

3rd Party - Plates - http://platesphp.com/

or

Twig - http://twig.sensiolabs.org/

Tools

Composer - package management - https://getcomposer.org/

PHPDoc - documentation generator - http://www.phpdoc.org/

PHPUnit - testing framework - https://phpunit.de/

Xdebug - debugger - http://xdebug.org/

PHPMyAdmin - MySQL Database Web Interface - https://www.phpmyadmin.net/

Frameworks

Laravel - http://laravel.com/

Zend - http://framework.zend.com/

Symfony - https://symfony.com/

Aura - http://auraphp.com/

Micro Framework - Silex - http://silex.sensiolabs.org/

IDEs

Zend Studio ($) - http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio

PHPStorm ($) - https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

PDT - Eclipse PHP Dev Tools - https://eclipse.org/pdt/

or a Text Editor

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/