You are crying "HELP!!!" - but who can help you?
Keep cool - most of the questions and problems typically arising during a developer's
working day have already been asked - and answered - some time ago. Sometimes even many
times, and in 98% of all cases you can be sure that the answer to YOUR question already
waits for you, you just have to know WHERE to look for it.
The following is a collection of the best information resources about PHP you can
find in the Internet, check them out, you'll wonder what you are able to find there !
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Mailing lists are great information resources which allow you to share your
experiences with others and ask questions yourself to hundreds of subscribers.
Mails with questions and answers are usually sent to a Mailinglist-Server which will
distribute them to all subscribers worldwide. TRY IT OUT - it's a great help !
At e-mail subsriptions, please let the subject line empty and use only the first line of the message body.
Once you subscribed, most of the lists provide commands to retrieve past articles via the listserver. Beside
that, some of the lists are archived by Reference.com - see description here or on my
"Tips and Tricks" section.
At some of the mailing lists the correct subscribing-commands change from time to time -
if one of them doesn't work, just try it again with the correct syntax which you'll
receive from the mailing list server. Please don't forget to send me a short
mail informing
me about the correct syntax to give me a chance for correcting it on this page for
other interested visitors.
- The PHP versus ASP debate list
Click on the link for detailled info and a subscription form.
- French PHP User's Mailing List.
Click on the link for detailled info and a subscription form.
- German PHP User's Mailing List
Click on the link for detailled info and a subscription form.
- Hungarian PHP Mailing List
Click on the link to send a subscription email.
- Italian PHP User's Mailing List
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- Portuguese PHP User's Mailing List
Click on the link for detailled info and a subscription form.
- Spanish PHP User's Mailing List
Click on the link to send a subscription email.
- Turkish PHP User's Mailing List
Click on the link for detailled info and a subscription form.
- Announcements of new PHP releases are sent to the announce list
(which is a very low-volume, moderated list) [click to request a detailled help email]
- The main list for PHP users is php-general
(which is an unmoderated, high volume list, and is also available in a twice-daily digest). [click to request a detailled help email]
- The list for discussing database topics is php-db
(which is an unmoderated list and is also available in a twice-daily digest). [click to request a detailled help email]
- The list for discussing installation issues and problems is php-install
(which is an unmoderated list and is also available in a twice-daily digest). [click to request a detailled help email]
- The list for discussing internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) issues and features is
php-il8n (which is an unmoderated list and is also available
in a twice-daily digest). [click to request a detailled help email]
- The list for discussion migration from earlier versions of PHP is php-migration
(which is an unmoderated list and is also available in a twice-daily digest). [click to request a detailled help email]
- php-pear is a mailing list for those interested in PEAR,
an open-source common code library for PHP (some people wanted to call it "PHP Foundation Classes"..). [click to request a detailled help email]
- The list for Windows PHP users is php-windows
(which is an unmoderated list and is also available in a twice-daily digest). [click to request a detailled help email]
- The list for those who want to help out with the development of PHP is php-dev
(which is an unmoderated, medium-volume list). [click to request a detailled help email]
- The Knowledge Base list receives daily mailings that contain summaries of topics discussed on the user list,
as well as other topics drawn from the Knowledge Base. More information about the Knowledge Base can be found
at FAQts.com.
- search other PHP Mailing lists [upd:10-Feb-01]
..this will bring up a quite long list containing other PHP-related mailing lists,
partially in other languages than english, too. Click the links on the opened page for details.
Mailing list archives
For most of the above mailing / discussion lists, online archives can be found and searched!
(if you want to check for more mailing lists, check out my "Hot Links" Page,
and click on "Internet" there, you'll find some "List of Lists" as well as some
Search Engines for Mailing Lists there.)
Online Discussion Forums
PHP-related Newsgroups and forums
Internet Newsgroups
If you have access to a news server that supplies you with these groups to access them,
use your News Reader (Netscape News, M$ Internet News or Free Agent) to connect to them.
- Get help 24 hours a day for free for all kinds of PHP topics: use your IRC
client to connect to an EFNet IRC server) and join one of these channels:
- #php on Effnet
- #php on OpenProjects
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There aren't really lots of PHP-related usergroups out there.
In fact, most PHP questions seem to be handled during Linux usergroup meetings.
However, if you know about a group not listed here, please keep me informed to
give local PHP developers the chance to visit it!
Usergroups often provide useful support in your programming-efforts.
Most of them also have regular meetings, provide newsletters, book reviews, resource databases or job offers.
Basics:
The Lists:
In these magazines you can find hot informations concerning PHP and
PHP-related programming questions. Try before you buy - many of the listed
mags also provide informational and professional Online-issues:
- Tip #1: the PHP-BOX's PHP News page lists a number of Online articles concerning PHP you might find of interest
- Tip #2: at the "Helpful PHP Books" section of this website you can find a selection of popular PHP-related books.
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