February, 2003

The Joy of PHP

You'll love PHP. If you ever got sick of extensive scripting on top of HTML, then PHP is the tool for you. Ties in wonderfully with Apache. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Part of what is considered the standard web hosting platform mix; LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP).

• http://www.php.net
• http://www.zend.com/
• http://www.maxworld.co.yu/htmlbeauty/ (an awesome freeware HTML editor that also edits PHP
• http://phpnuke.org/ - turn it into a portal!
• http://www.phpbuilder.com/
• http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/tutorials/tutorial4.html
• http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/
• http://pear.php.net/
• http://www.zend.com/zend/art/intro.php - more about the history and syntax of PHP