PHP Resources
Well, I have my presentation all ready for tomorrow’s talk at NY PHP. Here is the listing that I have for PHP resources so far:
Archive for January, 2006
PHP Resources — books
I just received my copies of these books from SitePoint:
The PHP Anthology: Object Oriented PHP Solutions - SitePoint Books
I’m always skeptical of technology books, as so many of them make better doorstops than providing useful learning. But this looked promising and the site offers a download of the first few chapters. In the first few pages I learned about MAGIC QUOTES in PHP, which answered a very vexing problem I’d been experiencing in my PHP-based application. And the useful nuggets continued, with a couple of other good discoveries. So I made the plunge and bought the books.
Practical Experience with PHP: Randall Rode
Here is the announcement of my presentation next week (1/24/06) at the New York PHP organization meeting — pretty cool!
next@nyphp - Practical Experience with PHP: Randall Rode
User Testing
I’ve been listening to a very interesting presentation on preparing web pages for accessibility. Its includes a very good discussion on the order of navigation elements and content on the page, use of skip-links, and other topics. The real value for me is that they’ve tested different approaches with accessibility-challenged users, and so the results are based on something other than their opinions:
PHP Functions reference
Here is a very cool AJAX page that provides a search front-end on PHP functions. As you type it dynamically finds text matches. Once you select on of the matches it also provides a link to the information at php.net. The source code is posted, so take a look
