General

• PHP Manual
  • Constants
  • Define PHP Configuration Values in Apache
    Apache 2.0 can only use "php_value"
  • PHP Pre-defined variables
    
  • Array functions
  • Filesystem functions
  • Regular Expression functions
  • String functions
  • Openssl functions
  • PHP configuration options (php.ini)
  • Apache 2.0.x on Microsoft Windows
• PHP Development
  • PHP CVS Access Info
  • PHP CVS Web
• PHP Development Tools
  • PHPEdit
    VERY GOOD OpenSource IDE for PHP!
    Use around 28M RAM for the v0.8.0.25 for Windows
  • phpCodeBeautifier
    OpenSource Tool to beautify your PHP codes! (function included in PHPEdit already)
  • XMI2PHP
    OpenSource Tool to convert UML XMI files into PHP directly (e.g. generated from ArgoUML)
  • phpCodeSite
    PHP Library to help debugging
  • DBG
    OpenSource PHP client/server architecture debugger
  • ArgoUML
    OpenSource Java tool to draw UML diagrams and do code generation
• Design
  • Bombusbee
    A kind of fusebox design framework for PHP
  • An activity based Workflow Engine for PHP
• ActiveState Programmer Network PHP codes
• Compare different PHP frameworks

• PHPBuilder.com
• php | architect

• An introduction to PEAR's Validate package
  Quick way to validate e-mail like: $validate->email($email);
  Its check domain function can also check the domain's MX record is exist or not (using checkdnsrr() function)
  It can also check e-mail comply with RFC822 format
  
• PHP Filtering with OWASP
  Intro to use OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) filters for PHP to make sure the variable is valid for a particular purpose
• Regular Expressions PHP Tutorial

• PHPBuilder.com forum

• PHP 6.0 unicode support design document
  This document is only included in PHP6, not even include in PHP 5.1.2.
• CentralNic Unicode Library (Unicode.php)
• Multibyte String (mbstring) extension to handle Unicode
  • Most functions available since PHP 4.3.0
  • For Win32, the extension included in ZIP distribution only
  • mbstring RPM is already included in the Fedora RPM since FC3 (or even FC1 with latest update)
• PEAR I18N_UnicodeString Class (Not updated since 2004-08-28)

• PHP PEAR Manual
• Manual installation of PEAR Packages
• PEAR DB Package
• define variable: PHP_PEAR_INSTALL_DIR for the command line tool pear to check the pear directory
• PHP PEAR at PHP's CVS Web
• install beta package in PEAR
  pear install -beta
• Install a local copy of PEAR library for shared host enviornment
  
  1. For PEAR 1.4+
  2. Create a local config file:
     pear config-create [base-path] [/path/pearrc]
  3. Initial install base on the config file, files will put to base-path:
     pear -c /path/pearrc install Archive_Tar PEAR Console_Getopt XML_RPC
  4. Using the local pear from commandline:
     pear -c /path/pearrc [command]
  5. Using the local pear from apache conf:
     php_value include_path ".:/base-path"
  6. Using the local pear from inside php:
     

     ini_set('include_path', '~/pear/lib' . PATH_SEPARATOR  . ini_get('include_path'));
     
     // From PHP 4.3.0 onward, you can use the following,
     // which especially useful on shared hosts:
     set_include_path('~/pear/lib' . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());
     

• Turck MMCache for PHP (Free open source extension to encode PHP into byte code for source protection)
  • Win32 dll of mmcache.dll from CVS for PHP 4.3.9 to 5.0.1
  • PHP : Step by Step Tutorial (Step by step guide to setup PHP Win32, include setup the mmcache)

• bcompiler: A bytecode compiler for classes (BETA: Class to compile function/class into byte code)
  • Article about bcompiler

• Tree
  • PEAR::Tree Tutorial
• Pager_Pager (Pagination for database w/o limit function or raw data)
  • Official example at CVS Web
  • Official documentation
• DB_Pager (Pagination for database)
  • Example codes
• DB_DataObject (code generation from SQL Database tables)
  • Official documentation
  • Discuss using DB_DataOBject with transaction
    Just use $obj->query("BEGIN"); and $obj->query("COMMIT");
• Contact_Vcard_Build (a class to create vCard)
  • Official website
• HTML_QuickForm (A very complete form class)
  • Example for enable Client Side JavaScript valiation
    Add 'client' to the 5th element of the AddRule function
  • List of QuickForm rules (as of v3.2.2)
    'required' => array('html_quickform_rule_required', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Required.php'),
    'maxlength' => array('html_quickform_rule_range', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Range.php'),
    'minlength' => array('html_quickform_rule_range', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Range.php'),
    'rangelength' => array('html_quickform_rule_range', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Range.php'),
    'email' => array('html_quickform_rule_email', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Email.php'),
    'regex' => array('html_quickform_rule_regex', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Regex.php'),
    'lettersonly' => array('html_quickform_rule_regex', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Regex.php'),
    'alphanumeric' => array('html_quickform_rule_regex', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Regex.php'),
    'numeric' => array('html_quickform_rule_regex', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Regex.php'),
    'nopunctuation' => array('html_quickform_rule_regex', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Regex.php'),
    'nonzero' => array('html_quickform_rule_regex', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Regex.php'),
    'callback' => array('html_quickform_rule_callback', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Callback.php'),
    'compare' => array('html_quickform_rule_compare', 'HTML/QuickForm/Rule/Compare.php')
    
  • compare rule example
    
  • Custom rules example (add a compare function in QuickForm 2.x)
    function cmpPass($element, $pass2val)
    {
    global $form;
    $pass1val = $form->getElementValue('passwd1');
    return ($pass1val == $pass2val);
    }
    $form->registerRule('compare', 'function', 'cmpPass');
    $form->addElement('password', 'passwd1', 'Enter password');
    $form->addElement('password', 'passwd2', 'Confirm password');
    $form->addElement('submit', 'submit', 'submit');
    $form->addRule('passwd1', 'Please enter password', 'required');
    $form->addRule('passwd2', 'Please confirm password', 'required');
    $form->addRule('passwd2', 'Passwords are not the same', 'compare', 'function');
    
  • PEAR HTML_QuickForm Getting Started Guide
  • pookey.co.uk - HTML_QuickForm Tutorial
• The Log Package

• xdebug for php (2.0.0beta6 at 2006-06-30)
  • DBGp debug protocol (1.0 draft 14)
• phpEclipse
  An OpenSource IDE for PHP integrate with Eclipse
• PHPUnit
  Unit Test framework in PHP
  • PHPUnit Pocket Guide
• Smarty Template Engine (Very famous and active developing, can use with PEAR QuickForm)
  • Configuring Dreamweaver MX to use with Smarty tpl files
  • Dynamic Variable Name
    {assign var="newname" value="string1_$id"}
    {$object.$newname.variable}
  • Mixing Smarty & Dreamweaver
    • Methods to Mixing Smarty & Dreamweaver (Japanese)
    • Dreamweaver & Smarty by Doug Felton
      2005-08, quite complex method
    • Dreamweaver JS Translator to handle Smarty
    • SmartyDWT - Smarty Dreamweaver Tags Extension
      Seems to be a better one, even include an insert bar
    • Dreamweaver support contribs from smarty official web
      quite out-dated, year 2002. The: smarty_with_dreamweaver.zip may work better
    • Smarty Aids for Dreamweaver
      Some Dreamweaver extensions that make editing Smarty templates easier, include support for XOOPS
• JpGraph OO Graph Library
  Generate PNG Chart for PHP 4.3.1+, free for non-commercial use
• GlobFX Swiff Chart Generator
  Generate Flash animation Charts for PHP
• SafeSQL class
  safely escape SQL commands, by author of Smarty, seems only support mySQL and no update since 2004
• PHP Documentor
  Code documentation tool, also used by PHP PEAR. Output in HTML, PDF (directly), CHM (with windows help compiler), XML DocBook
  • phpDocumentor Guide to Creating Fantastic Documentation

• Discuz! Forum
  • Discuz! 6.1.0 圖文安�き迮{
  • Discuz! Official Download
• Cacti
  For throughput and performance monitoring. The Complete RRDTool-based Graphing Solution. For Network & Server Monitoring. Has RPM package.
• Squirrelmail
  • Patch for Squirrelmail against Cyrus IMAP server quota extension, allow direct delete e-mail when quota is full
  • i18n problem since 1.2.x upto 1.4.2 when in Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese
    • May solve compose problem when using non-English language
    • My experience: Just remove all locales language files!
  • Warning: Unknown(): Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3...
    • Discuss on that problem
    • Likely running SquirrelMail 1.2.x under PHP 4.3.x. My experience: turn register_globals on will fix this error
  • "Could not move/copy file" error after upload file
    • Increase the attachment size related limits
• LinPHA - The PHP Photo Archive
  Online Graphic Gallery
  • Access Denied problem in File Management
    Seems cannot limit the directory access
• ezPublish
  Content Management System
  • Latest Release: 3.3-3
  • Download
  • Contributed codes download
  • Documentation
  • Bug Reports
  • Support Forums
  • Reference Websites using ezPublish
  • 3rd party
    • Class Documentations
    • eZ publish 3.1: Take It For A Spin
• WebMail
  • Hastymail
    No Javascript, no frame, quick and simple
  • WAP Mail
    WAP IMAP e-mail client under GPL (last update 2000-09-15)

• warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address
  In Windows enviornment, php's mail() function only accept simple name@domain.com but not "name " format