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Well over time while working with developing PHP web applications, I’ve gathered an increasing list of places I like to go to from time to time when I need PHP reference help. I’ll just list some of my favourite ones.

PHP Freaks
- This one has got some really detailed and well explained tutorials. It’s good for beginners as they provide pretty good step by step instructions and explanations. They haven’t added anything much new in the last little while though.

Pixel2life
- Big tutorial site, they got their fair share of good tutorials. But it’s really a hit and miss with these as some of them are really crappy (both in explanation and actual bad code) but you will find some good ones as well. Just take these more with a grain of salt.

Evil Walrus
- Really nice snippets and tutorials from this site. Has some neat stuff, good once you get the hang of PHP.

Code Walkers
- Again another pretty old site, but it has some good tutorials, just some of them are pretty outdated. Good to learn but not too practical to use in my opinion.

PHP Builder
- A little more advanced articles but useful stuff once you get to know PHP. Nice threads in the forum that you can look through and can be very useful for learning or reading up on other questions people had.

Faqts
- Quick question snippet site. I only find this useful when it comes up on Google searches for my questions. These can be very specific so unless you have a certain problem, the site won’t be that useful.

PHP Classes
- Once you’ve “mastered” PHP, this site is heaven. Has many open-source classes that you can use on your own projects for just about anything you can think of. You really have to know how OOP works in PHP though in order to get the most out of this site.

Here are a couple of very good “programming” forums.
Site Point
- Sitepoint is a hot spot for web developers, web designers, and webmasters. They have some very talented and knowledgeable moderators and members there. Very excellent place to ask about questions.

Programming Talk
- Part of the iNet group which also runs WebhostingTalk, not as active as Sitepoint but usually you can get a couple of good responses.

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