===== PHP Resources =====


==== Blogs =====

  * http://planet-php.net 
  * http://phppatterns.com 
  * http://phpdeveloper.org
  * http://enterprise.phpmagazine.net/

==== Magazine/News Sites ====

  * http://www.phparch.com - their news feed contains links to new PHP articles, new PECL, PEAR and phpclasses.org releases and details of (mostly American) PHP events

  * http://podcast.phparch.com/main/index.php/main - PHP Architects Pro Podcast - news summary and interviews.

  * http://www.php-mag.net - International PHP magazine

==== Useful tools/products ====
(preferably free ones)

  * http://www.enterprisegroupwaresystem.org - PHP based, CRM, ERP, Project Management and Ticketing   System (amongst other things) managed by [[http://www.senokian.com|Senokian Solutions]]
  * http://smarty.php.net - the Smarty templating system
  * http://templatelite.sourceforge.net/ - Lightweight template system compatible with Smarty
  * http://phplens.com/adodb/ - comprehensive Database abstraction layer
  * http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php - The SimpleTest UnitTesting system
  * http://www.phpunit.de/ - Another UnitTesting system

==== Editors, IDEs & Debugging ====
  * http://www.eclipse.org/php/ - Eclipse PHP project (Zend's one, not PHPEclipse)
  * http://www.phpeclipse.de/ - Another Eclipse PHP project (the original!)
  * http://www.xdebug.org/ - XDebug debugging and profiling extension
  * http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/ - DBG debugger and profiler

==== Other PHP User Groups ====

  * http://www.phplondon.org - PHP London
  * http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/country/uk/ - PHP Classes maintain a list of usergroups

==== Other IT related groups ====

  * http://wolveslug.org.uk Wolverhampton Linux User Group
  * http://sb.lug.org.uk South Birmingham Linux User Group
  * http://birmingham.pm.org Birmigham Perl Mongers (User Group)
  * http://www.covlug.org.uk - Coventry Linux User Group
  * http://www.pywm.eu/pug - West Midlands Python User Group
  * http://www.geekup.org - Web Developers etc from around Manchester and the North West of the UK.