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[448191]

Application design

General:

• The Object Management Group (OMG)
• Zend Developer Zone
• ZF: Enabling Hierarchical URI
• Web Application Development - A Guide to Success
• PHP Hacks Chapter 6: Application Design
• PHP Application Framework Design Tutorial
• PHP Riot's Application Design Section
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Design strategies:

• Philosophy of Interface-Driven Design
• Jimmy Nilsson on Domain Driven Design
• Domain-Driven Design patterns

• Introduction to Test Driven Design

Unified Modeling Language:

• UML Homepage
• IBM UML Resource Center
• Visual Paradigm UML Resources Center
• Visual Case Tool - UML Tutorial
• Practical UML™: A Hands-On Introduction for Developers
• OO/UML: Aggregation versus Composition

UML software:

• Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition
• Umbrello UML Modeller
• ArgoUML
• Violet UML editor
• XMI to PHP
• PHP to XMI

PHP5 related:

• PHP 5 and Design Patterns: An Introduction
• PHP 5 Advanced OOP and Design Patterns
• PHP 5 OOP: Delegation and Custom Exceptions
• 
  Sams: Object-Oriented Programming Through Design Patterns
  
• Sams: Design Patterns and PHP 5
• 
  Sams: Polymorphism, Design Patterns, and PHP Programming
  
• 
  Sams: Overloading and Object-Oriented Programming with PHP 5
  
• Standard PHP Library (SPL) Functions
• Advanced OOP with SPL in PHP 5
• Building a simple MVC system with PHP5
• 
  Controlling Online Forms with Builder Objects in PHP 5

MVC:

• Planet MVC
• 
  Learning from the CakePHP source code - Part I
  
• Understanding MVC in PHP
• Model View Controller Illustrated
• Model View Controller Overview
• The sad story of Model View Controller
• Yes, it's from Microsoft, but hey..

Design Patterns:

• patternshare.org
• Hello World in Patterns
• Patterns for PHP
• Registry Pattern
• Singleton Pattern
• Strategy Patterns
• Observer Pattern
• Factory Method
• Adapters and proxy patterns
• Iterator Pattern
• Decorator Pattern
• Command Pattern

Custom template engines:

• Beyond The Template Engine
• CodingForums.com: Modular DOMDocument template engine
• Using a Template Processor Class in PHP 5

Database design:

• Database Design Basics
• An Introduction to Database Normalization
• Concepts of Database Design and Management

Frameworks:

• PHP MVC Frameworks
• PHP Ajax Frameworks
• Manual Lemos' Recommended Frameworks
• Taking a look at ten different PHP frameworks

Performance and security

PHP

• 
  Simple ouput caching tutorial
  
• More simple ouput caching
• Client/proxy caching tutorial
• PHP Accelerator
• Turck MMCache
• PHP Security Guide
• PHP optimization tips
• Performance of the PHP5.1 Object Model Compared to PHP4
• Top 7 PHP Security Blunders

MySQL

• MySQL Optimization
• MySQL General Security Issues

This is already starting to turn in a pretty comprehensive list, but feel free to suggest additions, please! 

[redbullmarky]

I'd like to suggest this article from Sitepoint (original version here) as it was the first to properly open my eyes to PHP-based template "engines" and how easy it is to make a lightweight template class using PHP as its native syntax.
For those a bit baffled by Smarty and suchlike, with the new set of syntax they introduce, the article is perfect.

Cheers
Mark

[448191]

I'd like to suggest this article from Sitepoint (original version here) as it was the first to properly open my eyes to PHP-based template "engines" and how easy it is to make a lightweight template class using PHP as its native syntax.
For those a bit baffled by Smarty and suchlike, with the new set of syntax they introduce, the article is perfect.

Cheers
Mark

I read the original before. It's up there.

[redbullmarky]

an excellent read if you're looking for recommendations for Rails-inspired PHP frameworks:

http://www.h3rald.com/articles/view/rails-inspired-php-frameworks/

[paalgg]

UML software:

• Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition
• Umbrello UML Modeller
• ArgoUML
• Violet UML editor
• XMI to PHP
• PHP to XMI

I would like to suggest my own PHP2XMI / PHP2UML tool with web interface for the "UML Software" category:
http://www.gammelsaeter.com/php2xmi/

It parses PHP classes and generates interfaces, classes, inheritance, implementation etc as an XMI file. The XMI output has been tested with argoUML, StarUML and Umbrello, and works perfectly.

I am very interested in feedback and suggestions to improve. I can mention that I have plans to extend it with Umbrello support in the XMI output so that the classes already is set up and the user do not have to put every class and interface in the right place.

[koen]

There's an interesting discussion going on right now about the MVC models in PHP frameworks, and about the nature of the MVC model itself. I think the email quoted in the following post is an interesting clarification of some widely misunderstood MVC conceptions:

http://pookey.co.uk/blog/archives/43-phplondon08-the-crazy-guy-mail.html

[deadonarrival]

The microsoft like is dead (wouldn't you believe it)

[keeps21]

Does anyone know if this Article: Building a simple MVC system with PHP5

is available anywhere, I've seen lots of reviews for it and everyone seems to have good things to say about it.

but the site doesn't work.

[Daniel0]

http://web.archive.o...imple-mvc-php5/

[axl8]

Five common PHP design patterns http://www.ibm.com/d...hp-designptrns/
Five more PHP design patterns http://www.ibm.com/d...designpatterns/

[RobertP]

I would like to note, that most *all* of the links categorized under "Design Patterns" are dead.

Edited by RobertP, 10 December 2012 - 09:22 PM.