The homepage states the site is a place to get started with PHP, and the site offers PHP tutorials, links to PHP discussion forums and information on PHP security.
PHP Tutorials
The PHP tutorials section of the site appears to be a list of tutorials from the PHP Freaks website.The tutorials themselves seem well written, though I would hardly say they were for beginners.
Interesting to see they have a tutorial on how to write a BBCode parser, something I have spent many many hours doing myself.
I would prefer to see a little more depth in the tutorials section, and perhaps some way of categorising them. Separating out the tutorials by difficulty level or functionality would be a good way of adding value.
PHP Discussion
The PHP discussion section provides hot links to the various discussion threads on popular forums.DigitalPoint, Webmaster Talk and PHP freaks are listed here, all popular forums for coding and internet marketing and good places to hang out.
The site includes links to the latest topics on these forums.
PHP Security
The section on PHP security covers some of the more common security mistakes new coders make, such as register globals being left on, how to prevent SQL injection and cross site scripting (XSS).Overall
I really think this site would benefit from more hand-written, unique content.PHP has a lot to offer, and there are plenty of ways to add value to the community and help new coders to learn PHP.
Tutorials are always a good start, and I spent many days running through tutorials when I started with PHP. I would add more reviews on popular software packages - is VBulletin better than PHPBB? Is Joomla! search engine friendly? etc. Links to coding standards such as Horde would have been something I could have used many years ago - I now spend a lot of time replacing tabs with spaces in all my old code!
It's totally possible to make a successful site based around syndicated content, but it's important to add your own touch to give your site a unique feel.
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Artem - Jul 21, 2007
It's a useful source, but anyway reading from monitor sometimes is hard enough.
I'm a beginner in PHP, and started read the Larry Ulman book "PHP Guide"
May be you read it, Harvey, or heard about it, is it well?
Thanks.
I'm a beginner in PHP, and started read the Larry Ulman book "PHP Guide"
May be you read it, Harvey, or heard about it, is it well?
Thanks.
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Jon Lee - Web Development - Jul 21, 2007