I’ll just assume you know of the php.net website. You know, your first reference to any PHP related problem/function/class/… ? But did you know there are a lot more PHP sites out there, that you might benefit from?
Redesign#
Did you know for instance, there’s a new design coming for the main site? The current layout is a 1999 version, that should soon get updated. (Update: that redesign shipped a while ago, the ?beta=1 preview link is long gone, and php.net has been redesigned again since. What you see at php.net
today is the modern site.)
PHP site redesign
Talks & presentations#
Granted, this contains mostly outdated presentations, but some are still very useful. You can find them all on talks.php.net . There are still useful talks there about the internals of PHP , debugging (mostly Xdebug), Security , …
Code testing & analysis#
There used to be a gcov.php.net where you could spot the status of automatic code testing of current PHP code. Absolutely worthless for the average joe, but it gave some nice insight into their inner workings. :-) (Update: that site is gone now; PHP’s CI lives on GitHub Actions
these days.)
PECL#
This is a more familiar website (pecl.php.net
), where PHP Extensions are held that are not included in the main PHP code. Includes very useful extensions such as APC
, memcache
& Xdebug
. (Update: APC is no longer maintained, it’s been superseded by APCu
for userland caching, with opcode caching now built into PHP core as OPcache. The memcache extension has largely given way to memcached. Xdebug is still going strong.)
A Wiki#
Like any good coding site, there’s a wiki . It seems to be lacking a lot of info, but can be a good place for references.