5 Quality Sites to Increase Your Knowledge of PHP
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Recently, a friend of mine asked me if I knew of any good tutorials or websites for people that are beginners to intermediate skill level with php. There are many websites, one could say too many, that have sub par tutorials and tips on php. If you are looking for some quality sites to visit and really increase your knowledge of the language then this post is for you! Join us as we take a look at 5 quality sites to increase your knowledge of php, all of them have been Drew Approvedtm, so you know it's good.
0. Ennui Design
Ennui design is the website of Jason Lengstorf, a fellow php and MySQL nerd. Jason frequently has quality articles and real world example and implementations on the topic of php.
1. Zend Developer Zone 101
This was perhaps the one series of articles/website that really got me into php enough to be proficient. The tone is anything but boring and the material taught is extremely useful for anyone. Don't let the '101' fool you, I still reference this series of articles from time to time and always find it helpful.
2. Roshan Bhattarai's Blog
I don't personally know Roshan, but I have been through every single php article on the site (yes, I do have a life also) and every one of them I learned a little something knew. His blog isn't only php related, it also features excellent Javascript and MySQL tips as well.
3. PHP Freaks Community and Forum
I am semi-new to the php freaks community, but I love it considering I am myself a php freak. A great way to learn any web or programming language is to lurk around the popular forums and check out the threads. You will learn a lot more thank you think just by looking at the problems others are having or participating yourself.
4. Query 7
I would consider Query7 an intermediate php website and a damn good one at that. A huge plus is that they frequently cover the use of CodeIgniter and API's such as the Google language API.
Bonus! Brenelz Web Blog
For a quick bonus I have included Brenelz, who is a good friend of Dev-Tips and myself. Brenelz constantly has experts in the field of php and other languages guest posting on his blog with their tips, as well as great tips from the man himself. After all, Brenelz was the one who first showed me how to use a transparent png-8 without needing any hacks for IE6.
And there you have it, five sites plus a bonus site to increase your knowldege of php. And in case you were wondering, here at Dev-Tips, we always start counting from zero 
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Yay Drew!
Thank you for this list. I have spent an insane amount of time at the Zend site since you pointed it out to me, and will probably do likewise at the others. It helps to have someone knowledgeable sift out the good stuff for the rest of us.
Thanks much, you are awesome!!
mary
Really glad to hear that you found the Zend articles helpful Mary! Thanks for your kind words, you’re too nice
I always love seeing people getting involved in the php community so keep it up!
Thanks!!
Welcome
I love that you started at zero. That pretty much made my day.
Thanks for featuring me on this list! I’ll look forward to working together with you in the future on some blog-love-swapping.
I’m glad someone enjoyed it!
No problem Jason, We will definitely have to work together for some guests posts. Looking forward to it!
Useful post and very interesting blog.
Thanks for both.
Glad you found it useful, thanks
I’ve been thinking about getting back into PHP once again. I used it years ago for template based websites and began creating my own CMS. Then I discovered WordPress!
Thanks for the inspiration.
The php community always has room for one more, glad to see you’re getting back into it. BTW, WordPress rocks
Sorry to tell, but Roshans blog has not been updated for almost half a year…
Cheers,
Christoph
Yes, I noticed that. However, the articles are far from outdated. Like I mentioned, I have ready every one of them and all were helpful so I mentioned the site
Thanks for your comment though, it’s always important to keep the date the content was published in mind.
I was finding these type of helpful sites and at last I found out. Thanks
Thanks, Ennui Design was unknown to me so i made sure i bookmarked that one.
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thanks for the list, Roshan Bhattarai’s Blog doesnot seems to get update now a days, i think w3schools.com is also a good site to learn php.