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PHP (originally meant Personal Home Page, but now means PHP: Hypertext Processor), first developed by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, then subsequently redesigned in 1997 by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who formed, Zend, The PHP Company. This very expressive scripting language has grown by leaps and bounds, and enjoyed staggering popularity. The main upshots are that it is widely available on most servers, ISP's and hosting companies; and also, there are now a very comprehensive set of libraries and extensions to perform all kinds of functionality from your PHP scripts, and connect with all kinds of other languages from PHP.

Combine that with PHP's relatively shallow learning curve, as well as it's impressive performance profile, and you have a winner!

PHP.net
Not only can you download the PHP tools and docs from here, you can also view the documentation online. But it's not just the manual: there are some extremely valuable comments and additions brought by the users. I found some terrific code snippets related to date and time handling, for instance.

Zend: The PHP Company
Zeev and Andi's company (Zend, get it?). These are the guys developing the Zend Engine which processes PHP. They have a few add-on tools you may be interested in: The Zend Studio, a PHP IDE; Safeguard Suite to encode your application; and Performance Suite to speed it up even more.

HotScripts.com
An amazing repository of free, open source and commercial packages in a number of languages. Don't forget to check these guys out when you need an application: it may already exist!

ionCube PHP Accelerator
Free PHP caching utility. Sounds awesome; looking forward to playing with it. Put out by the same company which publishes the ionCube PHP Encoder (not free).

php|architect Magazine
Looks like a very popular magazine for the PHP crowd. And *surprise* it's Canadian!

International PHP Magazine
Just started.


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