Summary and Resources

This brief overview of the PHP scripting language should give you an idea of what PHP is capable of and how PHP is being used. In a future article, I'll walk through accessing a MySQL database to create a dynamic Web product page. Until then, check out the resources on PHP below for further information.

• PHP.net is the main PHP Web site.
  
  
• PHP Wizards contains documentation and several popular PHP projects.
  
  
• Thickbook.com, by Julie C. Meloni, has a number of very helpful tutorials. Julie is the author of PHP Essentials, one of the best PHP books available.
  
  
• PHP Builder is another popular PHP site with tutorials and code libraries.
  
  
• Zend.com contains plenty of useful links and information about PHP. Zend is the PHP Optimizer.
  
  
• Check out Freshmeat to get updates on PHP development, among other things.
  
  
• Go to Perl.com to find out more about another popular scripting language.
  
  
• Check out the MySQL official home page.
  
  
• Go to the PHPMyAdmin site to see PHP and MySQL handled.
  
  
• The official Python site is always useful.
  
  
• The Java Lobby has lots of useful Java info.