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Level: Introductory Daniel Krook (krook@us.ibm.com), IT Specialist, IBM
Carlos Hoyos (cahoyos@us.ibm.com), IT Architect, IBM
14 Mar 2006 Learn
about PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) with this reading list compiled for
programmers and administrators by IBM Web application developers.
Introduction
This list of recommended reading material on PHP is compiled from a
variety of online sources by Web application developers in IBM's Global
Production Services organization. These resources have been selected
with the intention of introducing IT specialists and architects to PHP,
providing specific information about development and maintenance, and
helping to integrate the technology with IBM products.
PHP is an interpreted programming language run in an environment
provided by an open source core engine and extensions whose development
is driven by many companies and individuals. As such, this list
describes resources that apply to writing PHP programs and to
customizing the interpreter's environment. It links to material
published by IBM and content provided by others.
This list is updated periodically. Please help us improve it by providing your comments below.
Contents
- Overview
- Getting started
- Development environment
- Deployment
- Source control
- Development
- Learning PHP
- Advanced PHP
- Debugging and profiling
- Integration
- IBM database servers
- IBM Web and application servers
- Third-party services
- Extension
- Migration
- Between PHP versions
- To IBM database servers
- Security
- Community and news
- Mailing lists
- News
- Blogs
- Other resources
- User groups
- Presentations
- Books
- Webcasts
- Magazines
1. Overview
PHP is a scripting language most often embedded in HTML documents
and executed on the server before output is sent to the Web browser. It
can also be used as a command-line tool outside of the Web server
environment.
PHP is commonly installed in conjunction with other open source
software to build Web applications, a platform referred to by the term
"LAMP" (which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), though other
components can be used. For example, AIX® in place of Linux®, or DB2®
instead of MySQL.
- PHP definition
- Wikipedia provides an overview of PHP with code samples demonstrating fundamental programming concepts.
- Official PHP documentation
- The PHP manual is the primary source for information about PHP. It
contains a frequently asked questions (FAQ) list, installation guides,
language reference, and comprehensive function documentation with
user-contributed comments.
2. Getting started
2a. Development environment
You can't write PHP without a tool of some sort, be it a simple text
editor or full-blown integrated development environment (IDE). Since
there are dozens to choose from, here are starting points for a few of
the most popular.
- Zend Studio
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Zend Studio is a commercial IDE from the company that architected the
PHP engine. This editor provides syntax highlighting with code assist
and supports debugging, source control, documentation, and database
connections from within the tool itself.
- Eclipse with PHPEclipse
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Eclipse is a free open source, platform-independent software framework for delivering rich-client applications. PHPEclipse
is an Eclipse plug-in that offers a complete IDE experience, including
parser, debugger, code formatter, outline view, and templates. This
article provides instructions on configuring and installing Eclipse
with the PHPEclipse plug-in.
- jEdit
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jEdit is a free software text editor written in the Java™ programming
language, so it runs in multiple platforms and is extensible via
plug-ins. jEdit supports PHP syntax highlighting and additional
features, such as syntax validation and code navigation, available
through the PHP plug-in PHPParse.
2b. Deployment
When creating or deploying PHP applications, an appropriate environment must be available to run them.
- Zend Core for IBM
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Zend Core for IBM is a seamless out-of-the-box, easy-to-install, and supported PHP development and production environment. The white paper provides a high-level overview. The installation guide and user guide will help get you up and running quickly.
- Install XAMPP for easy, integrated development
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Open source stacks such as XAMPP from Apache Friends are simplifying
open source development by making it easier to write and distribute
applications in a stable, standardized environment. Learn how to
install, configure, and back up XAMPP on Mandrake Linux V10.0, learn
how to configure and administer XAMPP, and learn how to install your
own applications in an XAMPP environment.
2c. Source control
Whether you're collaborating with a team or need to preserve versions of your own files, source control is the answer.
- Tools for Writing Better PHP Code -- Version Control with Subversion
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Jeff Knight and Andrew Yochum demonstrate how Subversion can be used to
manage multiple projects and developers, as well as development and
production environments
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"Create a blog from scratch with PHP and Subversion"
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PHP is a great Web programming language to use when creating dynamic
Web sites, such as blogs. This tutorial explains how to build a blog
from scratch, while storing data using flat files. The Web site will be
backed up on a remote system using Subversion, protecting data in the
event of a Web-site crash. Subversion is growing in popularity, and it
is a great candidate to back up the site. With Subversion, it's also
possible to roll back the Web site to earlier versions of the blog if
your server crashes, or if you just didn't like last week's rambling
3. Development
3a. Learning PHP
With a development environment in place, you can learn about PHP's core functionality and begin writing code.
- Absolute beginners
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Zend maintains a collection of PHP 101 introductory tutorials for those who are new to PHP.
- "Introduction to LAMP technology"
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This tutorial explores the LAMP Web development framework and shows how
that framework can help you build applications to solve common business
problems. The tutorial begins with an exploration of the LAMP
architecture, then introduces fundamental PHP concepts. After a solid
grounding of PHP, the tutorial explains MySQL support, with coverage
focusing on database concepts and how to access MySQL from PHP. All of
these techniques are discussed within the context of a real-world
customer management example.
- "Getting started with objects with PHP V5"
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This article describes the fundamentals of objects and classes in PHP
V5, from the very basics through to inheritance, for experienced
object-oriented programmers and those who have not yet been introduced
to objects.
- "Learning PHP, Part 1"
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This tutorial is Part 1 of a three-part series that takes you from the
most basic PHP script to working with databases and streaming from the
file system by documenting the building of a document workflow system.
Look at the basics of building a PHP script, including syntax, HTML
forms, and database connections.
- "Learning PHP, Part 2"
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This tutorial is Part 2 of a three-part series that takes you from the
most basic PHP script to working with databases and streaming from the
file system by documenting the building of a document workflow system.
Here, documents are uploaded by users and stored in a
non-Web-accessible location for retrieval by the application in Part 3.
Also look at working with XML files using DOM and SAX, and at
exceptions.
- "Learning PHP, Part 3"
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This tutorial concludes a three-part series that takes you from the
most basic PHP script to working with databases and streaming from the
file system by documenting the building of a document workflow system.
Learn about using HTTP authentication, streaming files, and how to
create objects and exceptions.
3b. Advanced PHP
Once you've gotten your feet wet with PHP, you might choose to enhance, refactor, or extend your application.
- "Advanced PHP V5 objects"
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The May 2005 IBM developerWorks article "Getting started with objects with PHP V5"
covered enough detail to get a reader up and running with the basics of
classes and objects in PHP. This article introduces some of PHP V5's
more advanced and design-oriented features. Among them are object
types, which allow for decoupling the components of a system from one
another, creating reusable, extensible, and scalable code.
- Introduction to PHP Image Functions
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PHP is not limited to creating just HTML output. It can also be used to
create and manipulate image files in a variety of image formats,
including GIF, PNG, JPG, WBMP, and XPM. Jeff Knight talks about using
the GD library and the bundled version in PHP. He covers installation
and configuration, a discussion of the image functions themselves, and
related topics like patent laws and basic color models and theory.
- "Create graphics the smart way with PHP"
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Learn to build an object-oriented graphics layer in PHP. Using
object-oriented systems can make building complex graphics much easier
than building the graphics using the primitives in the standard PHP
library.
- "How to use regular expressions in PHP"
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Regular expressions can provide a powerful way to work with text. Using
regular expressions, you can do complex validation of user input, parse
user input and file contents, and reformat strings. PHP provides simple
methods that let you use POSIX and PCRE regular expressions. Discover
the differences between POSIX and PCRE, and how you can use regular
expressions and PHP V5.
- "Reading and writing the XML DOM with PHP"
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Myriad techniques are available for reading and writing XML in PHP.
This article presents three methods for reading XML: using the DOM
library, using the SAX parser, and using regular expressions. Writing
XML using DOM and PHP text templating is also covered.
- "Using AJAX with PHP and Sajax"
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For years, the goal of creating a truly responsive Web application was
hampered by one simple fact of Web development: To change the
information on part of a page, a user must reload the entire page. Not
anymore. Thanks to asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), we can now
request new content from the server and change just part of a page.
This tutorial explains how to use AJAX with PHP and introduces the
Simple AJAX Toolkit (Sajax), a tool written in PHP that lets you
integrate server-side PHP with JavaScript that makes this work.
- PHP 5 and Design Patterns: An Introduction
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Matt Zandstra introduces experienced programmers to design patterns in
PHP V5. Patterns are shared solutions to commonly encountered problems
in software development and can be effectively applied to PHP V5
applications, thanks to its new object-oriented features.
3c. Debugging and profiling
Find and fix application problems.
- "Debugging techniques for PHP programmers"
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Explore various methods for debugging PHP applications, including
turning on error reporting in Apache and PHP, and placing strategic
print statements to locate the source of more difficult bugs through a
simple example PHP script. The PHPEclipse plug-in for Eclipse, a slick
development environment with real-time syntax parsing abilities, is
also covered, as is the DBG debugger extension for PHPEclipse.
- "PHP Performance Profiling"
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Learn how to use the Advanced PHP Debugger (APD) to profile your PHP
code. Code profiling helps you identify bottlenecks or inefficient code
in your application, enabling you to tune the code where needed.
- Advanced PHP Debugger
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The Advanced PHP Debugger (APD) is a Zend extension that provides
traces suitable for debugging and profiling code, as well as full stack
backtrace. Events-based logging is also supported, so different levels
of information logging can be set on a script by script basis.
- Xdebug
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Xdebug is an extension that offers debugging information, including
full traces and function/line indicators. Xdebug also includes
profiling and script execution analysis.
4. Integration
4a. IBM database servers
Traditionally, developers have connected to IBM database servers
through the Unified ODBC functions in PHP. IBM now recommends using the
new PECL ibm_db2 extension
for PHP V4 and PHP V5, or PDO for PHP V5 when building new
applications. You can decide which extensions are available when
compiling PHP, or use Zend Core for IBM to provide you with preconfigured options.
- Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers
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This Redbook describes the installation and configuration details for
setting up the IBM data servers and Apache Web application server for
PHP applications. Including Zend Core for IBM, Zend Studio installation
and configuration, it discusses the process of porting PHP applications
from MySQL V5 to DB2 UDB V8.2.
- DB2 and Cloudscape Open Source Development
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This is an aggregation of many of the resources for developers planning to use PHP with IBM database servers.
- "Built for the Web"
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IBM's new partnership with Zend Technologies makes PHP Web development
even easier. This article provides an overview of PHP development for
IBM database servers and discusses the challenges and solutions at a
high level.
- IBM DB2 Universal Database, Cloudscape, and Apache Derby
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This presentation provides an excellent technical overview of the APIs
available for connecting to IBM database servers from PHP.
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"Application development with DB2 UDB"
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When it comes to application developers, no other database provides the
level of tooling and language integration like IBM DB2 Universal
Database (DB2 UDB). If you're exploring the world of Web services
vis-a-vis a services-oriented architecture (SOA), the DB2 UDB database
platform is there for you, whether you chose to write your applications
in PHP, the Java language, or .NET. See for yourself just how easy it
is to develop applications for the DB2 platform.
- "Develop IBM Cloudscape and DB2 Universal Database applications with PHP"
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Learn to configure IBM Cloudscape V10.0 and DB2 UDB V8.2 servers for
access from PHP V4.x and PHP V5.x. Write database applications using
the Unified ODBC extension. Overcome common performance issues due to
scrollable cursors and avoid functional limitations in stored
procedures.
- "Making the Most of PHP with DB2"
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Justin Whitney describes the new ibm_db2 extension in detail, showing
how to perform data manipulation tasks, as well as error handling,
transactions, and prepared statements.
- "DB2 Universal Database and the PHP Developer? Absolutely!"
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Paul C. Zikopoulos introduces the PHP DB2 APIs and demonstrates the new
database connection functionality in Zend Studio provided by the Zend
Core for IBM add-in.
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"Apache, Cloudscape, and PHP on Linux: A winning combination"
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Would you like to know how to build a PHP database application from
scratch? This tutorial shows you how to install the DB2 Run Time
Client, which allows you to access the IBM Cloudscape database. Also
learn to install and configure the Apache Web Server to host the
application, and compile and configure the PHP module for Apache. The
last part of the tutorial shows how to use the Cloudscape Network
Server and Apache to verify our database application.
- "Connect PHP to DB2 and Cloudscape via PDO"
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PHP V5.1 is set to ship with a new database connectivity layer known as
PHP Data Objects (PDO). While PHP has always had good database
connectivity, PDO takes PHP to the next level.
- "Zend Core for IBM technical roadmap"
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The Zend Core for IBM provides a seamless out-of-the-box PHP
development and production environment, supported by Zend and
integrated with IBM's Cloudscape and DB2 UDB database programs. The
product includes native support for XML and Web services in support of
increased adoption of SOA. It delivers a rapid development and
deployment foundation for database-driven applications and offers an
upgrade path from the easy-to-use, lightweight Cloudscape database, to
the mission-critical DB2, by providing a consistent API between the two.
- "Zend Core for IBM -- A guided tour for PHP developers"
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Have you considered setting up PHP V5 on your Linux server, but not had
the time to learn how? This article will help guide you through the
installation of a PHP V5 environment using the industry's first
integrated PHP environment that includes the IBM Cloudscape database
server. Installation and configuration is greatly simplified using Zend
Core for IBM compared to setting up a complete development and
deployment environment from scratch. Zend Core for IBM also provides
commonly used PHP extensions and DB2 client libraries to get you
connected to your DB2 UDB servers. Support for Zend Core is available
from Zend Technologies, a leading provider of PHP products and
services, but it is a free download and a time-saver for any PHP
developer who wants to build Web applications for IBM Cloudscape or DB2
UDB.
- "DB2 Express-C, the developer-friendly alternative"
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There are many no-charge Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
options available. Some are open source, and some are available from
commercial vendors at no charge. If you are developing applications
using C/C++, Java technology, .NET, or PHP and are looking for a proven
data server with innovative technology and a growing developer
community base deployed in many critical business solutions, it's time
to take a look at DB2 Express-C. Find out how to get started quickly
using DB2 Express-C for all of your applications, and review an
automation and tuning scenario to optimize your application.
4b. IBM Web and application servers
PHP can also be integrated with other IBM software products.
- "Hosting PHP applications on the IBM HTTP Server"
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IBM maintains its own copy of the Apache Web server and ships it as the
IBM HTTP Server, along with its WebSphere® Application Server. This Web
server is fundamentally Apache, and as such, can host and run
applications written in PHP. Learn the differences between the open
source Apache Web server and IBM's version, and view demonstrations of
IBM's version running a well-known PHP application.
- "Pair J2EE with PHP to implement a common Web application infrastructure"
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Conventional thinking often pits the AMP stack of open source
technologies -- made up of Apache, MySQL, and PHP -- against Enterprise
Java applications and IBM middleware. Sure, each camp has something to
fit in the Web server role, each has something for the business layer,
and each has something else for the data tier. But can't we all just
get along? Of course we can, says Daniel Krook, who shows how and when
it can be beneficial to mix and match these
once-considered-mutually-exclusive solutions to exploit their relative
advantages and develop new and innovative applications.
- "Run PHP applications in Apache Geronimo"
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PHP has been a popular scripting language for some time. However, with
the growing buzz over Java technology and Apache Geronimo, a
J2EE-certified application server, many experienced developers shy away
from using PHP with Geronimo because only JavaServer Page (JSP)
technology is supported out of the box. The PHP Java Bridge solves this
problem by providing full support for PHP on Geronimo and for sharing
sessions across PHP and JSP scripts.
4c. Third-party services
PHP can tie into many third-party services to support complex e-commerce applications.
- "Develop apps with Web services and the eBay SDK, Part 1"
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The face of eBay that most people are familiar with is the company's
Web presence. Learn how to write a small application that allows users
to execute ad-hoc queries against eBay through eBay's SOAP API. The
application uses the eBay Java SDK. The use case is targeted at a small
subset of the API, but you can generally apply the principles.
- "Develop apps with Web services and the eBay SDK, Part 2"
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Demonstrate good system integration practices. Learn how to develop a
Java application using the eBay SOAP SDK. Part 2 of this series focuses
on integrating the application with eBay's Web services, using the
authentication and authorization system, and making API calls.
- "Develop apps with Web services and the eBay SDK, Part 3"
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Create applications in PHP V5 that interact with eBay through Web
services. Almost half of eBay's transactions occur through its Web
services platform. Acquire a solid understanding of the mechanics of
the eBay XML API and learn how to use the Services_Ebay PHP extension.
- "Create a Web storefront using PHP and PayPal, Part 1"
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This series chronicles the building of a Web storefront in PHP using
PHP Data Objects to access a Derby database. The storefront includes a
user-manageable shopping cart that allows item purchases using PayPal
and includes the ability for merchants to notify customers via e-mail
on successful orders automatically.
- "Create a Web storefront using PHP and PayPal, Part 2"
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This series chronicles the building of a Web storefront in PHP using
PHP Data Objects to access a Derby database. The storefront includes a
user-manageable shopping cart that allows item purchases using PayPal
and includes the ability for merchants to notify customers via e-mail
on successful orders automatically. Part 2 covers creating shopping
carts and making payments via PayPal.
- "Create a Web storefront using PHP and PayPal, Part 3"
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This series chronicles the building of a Web storefront in PHP using
PHP Data Objects to access a Derby database. The storefront includes a
user-manageable shopping cart that allows item purchases using PayPal
and includes the ability for merchants to notify customers via e-mail
on successful orders automatically. This final part covers the addition
of transactions, a shipping component, and an e-mail notification
feature.
- "Create an Amazon storefront using PHP, Part 1"
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This is the first of a two-part tutorial that constructs an Amazon
storefront using PHP and the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS). The
storefront allows shoppers to view items displayed in lists or search
for specific items in the store.
- "Create an Amazon storefront using PHP, Part 2"
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This is Part 2 of a two-part tutorial that constructs an Amazon
storefront using PHP and the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS). Find out
how to create a shopping cart, a "browse for similar items" feature, a
specialty theme shop, and a collectibles shop.
5. Extension
PHP ships with many built-in capabilities, but it can also be easily
extended. You can take advantage of pre-written PHP components (PEAR),
compile existing packaged C extensions (PECL), or write your own.
- PEAR and PECL InfoCenter
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Find out how to work with libraries written in PHP or extensions written in C.
- Writing extensions for PHP
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Sara Golemon provides information on developing custom extensions.
- "An introduction to Service Data Objects for PHP"
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A team of IBM developers who implemented SDO in PHP rdescribe a
real-world example of adding new capability to PHP via a PECL
extension. The extension is available for download at the PECL SDO.
6. Migration
6a. Between PHP versions
PHP V5 provides many new features and is largely backward-compatible
with PHP V4. However, there are important differences that may affect
how your application behaves.
- PHP 5 InfoCenter
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This Zend site introduces PHP V5 and describes what has changed in the newest version.
- Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
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Get answers to frequently asked questions about migration.
- "Why PHP 5 Rocks!"
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Learn about upgrading to PHP V5. The overview provided is explored in detail in the author's book.
6b. To IBM database servers
IBM databases offer many features not available in other vendor products.
- IBM Redbook: MySQL to DB2 UDB Conversion Guide
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DB2 UDB has long been known for its technology leadership. This IBM
Redbook is an informative guide that describes how to migrate the
database system from MySQL to DB2 UDB V8.1 on Linux and how to convert
applications to use DB2 UDB instead of MySQL.
7. Security
PHP enables you to build functional applications quickly. This can
lead to inadequate error handling and input verification. Consider
these common pitfalls before deploying your site.
- "Auditing PHP, Part 1"
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Chances are that at some point, you've had a concern about the security
of a PHP application. When faced with an auditing task, do you know
what to look for? This series walks you through PHP and helps you
understand it enough to know what to look for when conducting a
security audit. Part 1 walks you through understanding the
register_globals setting.
- PHP Security Consortium
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The PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is a group of PHP experts who
promote best practices for secure PHP development. The PHPSC site
contains articles, a PHP security guide, and weekly summaries of PHP security issues.
- Top 7 PHP Security Blunders
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Pax Dickinson addresses seven common security issues and how to mitigate the risk in your code.
- PHP Security Audit HOWTO
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Read this talk given by Chris Shiflett to help you analyze your PHP applications for security holes.
8. Community and news
8a. Mailing lists
Mailing lists are an excellent resource for getting answers to your
PHP installation and development problems. See if there is already an
answer in the archives. If not, ask your question. Many user groups have their own mailing lists.
- Mailing lists at PHP.net
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There are many lists for those interested in PHP. This site includes
lists for general and subject-specific topics in PHP development for
end users, as well as a few lists for those building the PHP engine
itself.
8b. News
PHP gets better every day. Keeping up with what has changed is important.
- PHP Weekly Summary
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Read Zend's weekly summaries of new code, bugs, fixes, patches and talk.
- SecurityFocus Summaries
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Keep on top of weekly updates that may affect the security of your PHP applications.
8c. Blogs
Peruse this partial list of blogs by core PHP engine developers and
PHP application developers. Following trends here will give you a good
idea of what to expect in upcoming versions of PHP, as well as what
development best practices to keep on top of.
- Ilia Alshanetsky
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Ilia Alshanetsky is a PHP speaker, and book and article author.
- Andi Gutmans
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Andi Gutmans is an architect of the Zend Engine and co-founder of Zend Technologies.
- Grant Hutchison
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Grant Hutchison is a senior product manager at IBM responsible for
supporting the application development community for IBM database
servers, including DB2 UDB, Cloudscape/Apache Derby, and Informix
Dynamic Server (IDS).
- John Lim
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John Lim is a PHP developer.
- Mike Lively
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Mike Lively is a PHP developer.
- php|architect
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Visit php|architect, written and published by Marco Tabini.
- PHPDeveloper.org
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Visit the official blog of PHPDeveloper.org.
- Professional PHP Blog
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See this blog for PHP programming, Web development, PHP advocacy and best practices.
- Derick Rethans
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Derick Rethans is a developer of PHP's mcrypt, date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions among other contributions.
- Tobias Schlitt
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Tobias Schlitt is a PHP developer.
- Dan Scott
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Dan Scott is the release lead for the ibm_db2 and PDO_INFORMIX extensions, among other contributions to PHP.
- Chris Shiflett
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Chris Shiflett is a PHP consultant, speaker, and book and article author.
- SitePoint
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SitePoint is a PHP and Web design information site.
- David Sklar
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David Sklar is a frequent author and speaker on PHP.
- Zeev Suraski
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Zeev Suraski is an architect of the Zend Engine and co-founder of Zend Technologies.
- Jason Sweat
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Jason Sweat is a PHP speaker and book author.
- Adam Trachtenberg
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Adam Trachtenberg is a PHP speaker, and book and article author.
- Andrei Zmievski
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Andrei Zmievski, Technical Yahoo at Yahoo!, is a principal developer of PHP.
9. Other resources
9a. User groups
User groups are one of the best ways to meet fellow developers in person and regularly hear about current topics from experts.
- New York PHP
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New York PHP meets at the IBM building in midtown Manhattan on the fourth Tuesday of every month.
- PHP.net calendar
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The calendar at php.net lists user group meetings for each month.
9b. Presentations
Many speakers at open source or PHP-specific conferences provide their slides online.
- Ilia Alshanetsky
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See Ilia Alshanetsky's "PHP and Peformance" and other presentations.
- Marcus Börger
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See Marcus Börger's "PHP Code Camp" and other presentations.
- Derick Rethans
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See Derick Rethans' "RAD for PHP" and other presentations.
- Chris Shiflett
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See Chris Shiflett's "PHP Security Briefing" and other presentations.
- Talks at php.net
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This includes a listing of talks using a PHP presentation system.
9c. Books
There are many books published about PHP. These are some of the ones we find helpful.
- Advanced PHP Programming
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George Schlossnagle
- Apache Derby -- Off to the Races: Includes Details of IBM Cloudscape
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Paul C. Zikopoulos, George Baklarz, Dan Scott
- Essential PHP Security
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Chris Shiflett
- Learning PHP 5
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David Sklar
- PHP and MySQL Web Development
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Luke Welling and Laura Thomson
- PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
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Matt Zandstra
- Pro PHP Security
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Chris Snyder and Michael Southwell
- Upgrading to PHP 5
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Adam Trachtenberg
9d. Webcasts
Peruse this high-level coverage of PHP related topics.
- Building Dynamic Data-Driven Web Applications with PHP and DB2 UDB and Cloudscape
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PHP is one of today's fastest growing Web development languages. Learn
how easy it is to get started with PHP and use DB2 or Cloudscape as
your database server.
- Using PHP with XML and Web Services for rapid Web development
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PHP, the open source Web development language, is the fastest way to
build business-critical, scalable Web applications that tie in with XML
and Web services.
9e. Magazines
These are available at newstands or online in PDF format.
- DB2 Magazine
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DB2 Magazine is a solutions-oriented magazine that gives IT
professionals the strategic and technical information they need to work
successfully in the IBM data management environment.
- International PHP Magazine
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International PHP Magazine is a PHP-related e-magazine.
- php|architect
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php|architect is a monthly magazine dedicated exclusively to professionals who use PHP as part of their everyday work.
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