The best sites about php??

[DamienRoche]

So I have 2:

 

tizag.com

w3schools

php.net

 

(of course phpfreaks) - but I'm looking for tutorial sites which discus best practices, security, advanced php, oop etc.

 

Does anyone know of any 'exceptional' sites which harbor such information?

 

Thanks.

[daveoffy]

Those are the only ones I know about. Most people are not into PHP, and when they want to learn they buy a book, or get existing scripts and modify them to see what happens for each part of code they edit and add.

 

*UPDATE*

I found these with a google search. I don't know how much help it will be but it might have some good info

 

http://www.phpeasystep.com/

http://www.phpbuddy.com/

[DamienRoche]

Those are the only ones I know about. Most people are not into PHP, and when they want to learn they buy a book, or get existing scripts and modify them to see what happens for each part of code they edit and add.

 

*UPDATE*

I found these with a google search. I don't know how much help it will be but it might have some good info

 

http://www.phpeasystep.com/

http://www.phpbuddy.com/

 

Thanks, I'll look into them.

 

I think your comment about not many people being into php is way off base. Yahoo and facebook are powered by php. In fact, around 40% of the top 100 websites in the world are.

 

Php developers don't get existing code and modify it with what they learn from books. That's what you do in the start. I certainly don't anymore.

 

I imagine, like myself, developers build their own frameworks and apps from scratch. I'd think that's where the big bucks are.

 

Thanks for those sites again, I'll look into 'em.

 

This site leads to a mass of top-class information:

 

http://www.sourcerally.net/regin/15-The-seven-best-PHP-sites

 

[daveoffy]

I meant that to begin people modify existing code and look into book. After they learn they code without using existing code or books (well maybe just for a quick reference, we all forget)

[RussellReal]

I look at php.net all the time for functions I've used hundreds of times.. because its hard to remember the argument places of every function, the object to learning a language is just know which functions do what.. and remember the workings of every function that you use on a consistent basis.. other functions that you use once in a blue moon, why waste precious brain space to remember every aspect about it when there is php.net and countless other php references to use..

 

so, the best website in MY opinion

http://php.net

 

Other great websites:

 

http://w3schools.com/

http://tizag.com/