A Selection of PHP References

• THE major, most important PHP reference: www.php.net , the official web site for the PHP language
  
  
• A small selection of the MANY available PHP tutorials:
  • the PHP Manual from www.php.net
  • "A simple tutorial", Chapter 2 from the PHP manual above
    
    
  • W3Schools PHP tutorial
  
  
• Python books that either I like, or students have recommended:
  • "Learning PHP 5", by David Sklar, O'Reilly
  
  
• in case you need it: a good tutorial from www.php.net on how to install PHP (recommended by the W3Schools PHP tutorial, too! 8-) ): http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php
  
  
• date-and-time-related direct links:
  • formats for date() function:
    • date() page from PHP manual
    • date() reference from W3Schools PHP tutorial
  • strftime() page from PHP manual, including formats
  • strtotime() page from PHP manual, including examples of some legal string argument possibilities
  
  
• MySQL introduction within W3School's PHP tutorial
  
  
• Intro to working with files within W3Schools PHP tutorial
• PHP string functions reference from PHP manual
• PHP character type functions reference from PHP manual