Top bookmarks to use

...when writing PHP apps

[eelixduppy]

There are a few things that are a necessity to have bookmarked when writing PHP apps. Here's some that I use quite often:

• List of Parser Tokens [php.net]
  
• PHP.ini directives [php.net]
  
• PHP Security Guide [phpsec.org]
  
• MySQL Reserved Words [dev.mysql.com]
  
• MySQL Operator And Function Reference [dev.mysql.com]
  

This is not to say that I use the search at the php.net site a lot :)

What do you keep handy?

Note: If you have some that you'd like to share, please keep it within the Terms of Service and our Forum Charter [webmasterworld.com].

[phparion]

the most important thing for me that I always keep with me in working form is MY BRAIN :) trust me without that I cannot work.

other things are GOOGLE, i get 50% of my answers quickly from google search.

the other important resource is php classes [phpclasses.org] as I mostly work with OOP so it is a great repository of classes you do not need to reinvent the wheel! just get the class and customize it for your requirements or simply use it.

PHP Manual [php.net] it is very necessary to consult the manual because sometimes there are builtin functions for such tasks that we spent hours and hours to figure out with straight code for example for working with CSV files getcsv etc functions can be used.

discussion forums have their own important when you are stuck with some problem then you can get ideas from other webmasters, the WebmasterWorld comes on top of course and after that devshed forums [forums.devshed.com] are also very good, especially their php forum remains very very active and some awesome and experienced webmasters are always there to help.

[edited by: eelixduppy at 6:36 am (utc) on July 11, 2007]
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[henry0]

MySQL manual and more...

MySQL [dev.mysql.com]

[whoisgregg]

Having this on my company's intranet page has been more helpful to me than maintaining bookmarks since, typically, I need a particular function reference. Also, many blanket site searches fail because you get bug tracking sections or developer mailing list archives so I use specific site search strings for the areas I typically find answers. :)

<form method="GET" action="http://www.google.com/search">
 <p><strong>Search</strong> 
 <select name="sitesearch" id="select">
 <option value="webmasterworld.com">webmasterworld.com</option>
 <option selected="selected" value="www.php.net">www.php.net</option>
 <option value="dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/">mySQL docs</option>
 <option value="prototypejs.org/api/">Prototype Docs</option>
 <option value="wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/">Scriptaculous Docs</option>
 <option value="imagemagick.org/Usage/">Imagemagick Examples</option>
 <option value="imagemagick.org/discourse-server/">Imagemagick Forum</option>
 <option value="filemaker.com">filemaker.com</option>
 <option value="apple.com">apple.com</option>
 </select> <input name="q" type="text" id="q" size="15" maxlength="255" /> 
 <input type="submit" name="btnG" value="Google" /> 
 <input name=btnI type=submit value="I'm Feeling Lucky"></p>
 </form>

[Habtom]

Nice list whoisgregg.

"I'm Feeling Lucky", Lucky you will get the answer or?

[whoisgregg]

"I'm feeling Lucky" works really well for exact function names. (Like every time I need a reminder of what the date function tokens are, i can just type "date" and click "I'm feeling lucky" and Google redirects me right to it. :)