PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the PHP Group. PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Wikipedia
Created Year: 1995Created by: Zeev Suraski
Designed by: Zeev Suraski
Developed by: Rasmus Lerdorf • PHP Group • Andi Gutmans • Zeev Suraski • Perforce Zend
Operating systems: Unix-like operating system • Microsoft Windows
Implemented in: C
Aliases: PHP programming language, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
File extensions: phar, php, php3, php4, php5, php7, phps, pht, phtml
Wikidata: Q59
Influenced: Chaos • Falcon • Ferite • Hack
Influenced by: C • C++ • Java • JavaScript • Perl • Tcl
Programming paradigms: imperative programming • object-oriented programming • procedural programming • functional programming • reflective programming
Language types: scripting language • procedural programming language • multi-paradigm programming language • imperative programming language • object-based language • interpreted language
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Hello World in PHP
<?php
echo 'Hello World';
Free PHP books, articles, documentation
- Clean Code PHP
- Essential PHP - Krzysztof Kowalczyk, StackOverflow Contributors
- PHP 5 Power Programming (PDF)
- PHP Apprentice - Andrew Davis ( :construction: in process)
- PHP Best Practices
- PHP Documentor - Documentation - phpdoc.org
- PHP Handbook - Flavio Copes (HTML, PDF)
- PHP Internals Book
- PHP Notes for Professionals - Compiled from StackOverflow Documentation (PDF)
- PHP Pandas - Dayle Rees
- PHP Programming - Wikibooks
- PHP Reference: Beginner to Intermediate PHP5 - Mario Lurig (PDF)
- PHP: The Right Way
- PHP Tutorial - Tutorials Point (HTML, PDF)
- Practical PHP Programming
- Practical PHP Testing
- Survive The Deep End: PHP Security
- Using Libsodium in PHP Projects
CakePHP
- CakePHP Cookbook 2.x (PDF)
CodeIgniter
Drupal
- Drupal at your Fingertips - Selwyn Polit, Drupal Community Contributors
- The Tiny Book of Rules (PDF)
Laravel
- 100 (and counting) Laravel Quick Tips - Povilas Korop / LaravelDaily Team (PDF)
- Laravel Best Practices
- Laravel: Code Bright - Dayle Rees
- Laravel: Code Happy - Dayle Rees
- Laravel: Code Smart - Dayle Rees
- Laravel Tips and Tricks - Bobby Iliev (Markdown, PDF)
- Learning Laravel - Compiled from StackOverflow Documentation (PDF)
Symfony
- Symfony 5.4: The Fast Track
- Symfony 6.2: The Fast Track
- The Symfony Best practices 4.1.x (PDF) ( :card_file_box: archived)
- The Symfony Book 2.8.x
- The Symfony Book 3.4.x
- The Symfony Book 4.4.x
Yii
- The Definitive Guide to Yii 2.0 - Yii Software (PDF)
- The Yii Book - Larry Ullman (PDF)
Zend
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