Documentation

A good place to start is by skimming through the ever-growing FAQ. Then have a look at the online manual and other resources in the documentation section.

Books

Books are convenient resources to begin exploring PHP. The titles listed here will help you to start learning PHP, as well as extending your existing knowledge.

User Groups

PHP user groups have started popping up. Christopher R. Moewes-Bystrom is running a PHP user group registry at http://www.phpusergroups.org/.

Sample Code

Looking for some more sample PHP scripts? Our links page page lists some archives of sample PHP code - great places to find many example scripts and useful functions, organized for your searching pleasure!

Knowledge Base

The knowledge base is a growing collection of PHP related information in a searchable question and answer format. Anyone can contribute, and everyone is encouraged to do so. You can visit the Knowledge Base at http://php.faqts.com/.

Instant Resource Center

Otherwise known as IRC or Internet Relay Chat. Here you can usually find experienced PHP people sitting around doing nothing on the #php channel on OpenProjects. There is also a #php channel on EFNet, but due to the difficulties many people have getting on and staying on that network we are migrating to the OpenProjects network.

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Mailing Lists

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There are many PHP-related mailing lists available. Most of them have archives are available, and many are also available as newsgroups on our news server. The archives are searchable.

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You will be sent a confirmation mail at the address you wish to be subscribed or unsubscribed, and only added to the list after following the directions in that mail.

There are a variety of commands you can use to modify your subscription. Either send a message to php-whatever-help@lists.php.net (as in, php-general-help@lists.php.net) or you can view the commands for ezmlm here.

Archives for some of these mailing lists are also available at http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/.

Warning: The PHP users mailing list gets close to 2500 messages per month currently. Do the math. That translates to about 80 messages per day. If your mailbox can't handle this sort of traffic you might want to consider subscribing to the digest list instead (two messages per day), using the news server, or reading the mailing list using the archives.

You can search the main mailing lists right from this website from the search page or by using the search input box selecting the appropriate option on the top-right of every page.

Local Mailing Lists

There are also some mailing lists and newsgroups for PHP users that have been set up by others in the community to host local (particularly non-English) discussions.