The Portland PHP Users Group is a community forum for people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background.

"What are inherent limitations of PHP/CMSs?" asked someone in a forum. A few experienced programmers respond with good thoughts.

POBS stands for PHP Obfuscator/Obscurer. It is a free and open PHP program that makes PHP sourcecode almost impossible to read and edit for normal humans. It is a simple way to protect your PHP sourcecode from people who would like to adjust it or who would like to know its workings. Now you can deploy your application and feel pretty safe about it.

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Huge archive of PHP articles, forums, tips and tricks, and resources for today's PHP programmer. The tips/quickies list is very long and they provide a large library of code. They host several mailing lists, active forums, and several RSS news feeds. Over 70,000 members keep this a very active fresh content, updated news, and great programming discussions.

Contains many great tutorial articles to get you started with PHP including:

• What is PHP?
• PHP Syntax
• How to deal with cookies and sessions
• Displaying images and forms

The difinitive source for the PHP programming language. Here, you'll find the absolute latest news on where the PHP is headed, find the official documentation in several different languages, learn ab

A database-independent layer of classes and code for use in PHP.