Copyright, 1999, by David Medinets
http://www.affy.com
Back to Table of Contents
This is the home page of PHP. Here you'll find news, documentation, and the latest version available for downloading.
This is the home page of MySQL. Here you'll find news, documentation, and the latest version available for downloading. You can find many mirrors of this site including http://www.buoy.com/mysql/.
Next to the PHP home page, this site is probably the most valuable to new PHP programmers. Its value lies in the many articles available to peruse. These articles include: "Learning to Use Regular Expressions by Example", "Installing Apache", and "Image Creation with PHP".
This is the home of the phpMyAdmin application - a wonderful MySQL administration tool. And to sweeten the pot, Tobias Ratschiller also phpAds, phpEasyMail, and phpPolls. Not to mention many little pieces of code he called "tidbits".
This is the home page of the great PHPLIB module.
This site has many code examples in such wide-ranging topics as algorithms, graphics, and money.
This is another site that provides articles and tutorials about PHP. However, in someways it surpasses phpbuilder.com because it covers other technologies like DHTML, MySQL and many more.
In the webmaster's own words: "I'm happily porting Perl modules over to PHP. (I'm a sucker for impossible missions :) I'll be releasing them once the original functionality found in the Perl module is available in the PHP class. Currently I'm only porting the modules that I actually use or have a need for. Perhaps this should be part of a larger project? If you think it should be, let me know and, more importantly, let me know if you can help. :) If there is enough interest, I'd be happy to start up a project at the PHP Codebase."
Also in the webmaster's own words: "php.codebase.org is designed to support the PHP development community through timely news, articles and tutorials, projects and code examples, documentation, mailing lists, and discussion forums. So, if you are serious about PHP, take a look around -- we're sure you will find what you are looking for."
From the webmaster: "FishCartSQL(sm) is an OpenSource catalog management system for online e-commerce solutions; it has been in active use since January 1998. A few of the key benefits include multiple parallel catalogs, multiple languages, timed sales, Associate ID tracking, and Web based catalog maintenance. The order output of FishCartSQL(sm) can be adapted to an existing order processing system so in place systems are not impacted."
This consulting company provides the PHP_Layout, PHP_Graph, PHP_NNRP, and PHP_PDF free to the PHP community.
From the webmaster: "PHP Classes Repository is an experimental service that is intended to be as means of distribution of freely available programming classes of objects written the Web scripting language named PHP. The goal of this service is build a base of programming components ready to be used in Web applications written in PHP."
From the webmaster: "Midgard is a freely-available Web application development and publishing platform based on the popular PHP scripting language. It is an Open Source development project, giving you the freedom to create your solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the tool for creating, modifying and maintaining dynamic database-enabled web services."
This site provides archived for many mailing lists. You're probably most interested in the php-dev and php-general lists.
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com One of the best places to begin a search for information or for files is at Yahoo. This is one of the better organized and comprehensive search sites on the Web. Yahoo has separate categories for PHP and CGI. The PHP web page is (all lines form one URL): http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Servers/Server_Side_Scripting/PHP__Hypertext_Preprocessor/ And the CGI page is: http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/CGI___Common_Gateway_Interface/
This site is a very comprehensive resource that the site terms a "web developer's encyclopedia." There are many tutorials on HTML, CGI, HTTP, Databases, and Style Guidelines. This site is an incredibly rich source of links to virtually any web development-related topic you can think of. This site is definitely a must for visiting, especially when you have time to do a little link hopping and exploring, or when you need to find a web development resource.
I have a great deal of admiration for Philip Greenspun. This guide to publishing is well worth the time it takes to read. In fact, you should start at http://www.photo.net/ and meander around the site. Take notice of the many user comments appended to the bottom of each page. And leave some of your own.
I'm listing this online book, also by Philip Greenspun, just in case you don't stumble across it while reading Mr. Greenspun's web publishing guide. It's alternative title is "How to be a Web Whore Just Like Me" - which is only a small taste of Mr. Greenspun's humor.
This site explains how the CGI specification works and provides a nice set of link to other resources.
If you want to learn something, sometimes you just have to go back to the source. This site provides a CGI overview. It also includes tips on writing secure CGI scripts, a topic that must always concern CGI programmers.
Freshmeat http://www.freshmeat.net
This site seems to be the best at showing breaking news related to Linux.
This page is designed to be a central source of information about the SQL standards process and its current state. It will contain a number of pointers to other sources of information about the SQL standard.
Click the Q&A link on the left navigation bar. The focus is on SQL Server, but much of the information is applicable to other databases.
The title says it all.
This online magazine has an eclectic mix of business information and related database articles.
This online magazine focuses on corporate computing. The jewel of this web site are the articles by Joe Celko - who has a truly amazing command of SQL.
You'll probably never need this site. But if you really need to know the specifics of a standard, this is the place to go.
Copyright, 1999, by David Medinets
http://www.affy.com