useful_links.md

Here are some links to other sites you may find useful:

• PHP.net - home of the PHP open source programming language

  • https://www.php.net/

• PHP The Right Way - a great guide to good practice when programmign in PHP by Josh Lockhart

  • https://phptherightway.com/

• PHP-FIG - where the PSRs can be found (Programming Standsards Recommendations)

  • https://www.php-fig.org/

• Symfonycasts - lots of video training (some free) about PHP, Twig (as well as the Symfony open-source PHP web aoppliaiotn framework)

  • https://symfonycasts.com/courses#tracks

• Composer - the open-source PHP project dependency Manager

  • https://getcomposer.org/

• Packagist - the free repository for PHP packages (which Composer can install into your projects)

  • https://packagist.org/

• Twig - perhaps the most popular open-source PHP templating library

  • https://twig.symfony.com/

• Doctrine-project - perhaps the most popular open-source PHP ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) library

  • https://www.doctrine-project.org/

• my open-source, simple PHP ORM library, verbosely named "pdo-crud-for-free-repositories" (it does what it says on the tin ...)

  • https://github.com/dr-matt-smith/pdo-crud-for-free-repositories

• the guide I made for my university PHP programming students using Windows computers

  • https://github.com/dr-matt-smith/2023-php-setup-windows

• here is lionger list of PHP resources you might also find useful (by Jamie York a.k.a. ziadoz)

  • https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php