In a new post to his blog Kevin Schroeder shares some of the responses he received from a question he posted on Facebook - what's your favorite PHP resource?

Earlier today I had asked on the Zend Facebook page "what is your favorite page for getting PHP-based information?" There were some good answers there so I figured that I would post those answers here (since it's all public information anyways).

Sites mentioned in his list include:

• ProPHP.org
• StackOverflow
• PHPFreaks.com
• PHPClasses.org
• DZone.com

Several also mentioned using the Freenode IRC network (in channels like ##php and #phpc) for a more interactive form of help.

Hasin Hayder has asked the PHP community what some of their favorite books have been for learning PHP and related technologies:

So far I've read a lot of books written on PHP. But when someone asks me which one is my favorite, I get three or may be four which were very good. [...] Of course there are other books which are very good in fact. But these are my favorite (Well, you see that Beginning PHP4 and Professional PHP4 are obsolete by now, but they helped me a lot that time) [...] What is your most favorite Book on PHP? It doesn't matter if they are obsolete or 10 years old - Just share you most favorite one with us.

The comments included a wide range of titles from O'Reilly's "PHP Cookbook" and "PHP in Action" out to the classic "PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice". There's many more besides these so if you're looking for a good book and a place to start, check out the comments for some great suggestions.

The only topic more heatedly debated in the PHP world than which framework is the best is each developer's choice of IDEs. Hasin Hayder lists several popular choices and some of his thoughts on each.

Hmm, tough question for me. i have (had actually) so many favorites depending on context. but definitely it's interesting to write here about them.

IDEs mentioned include Visual Studio 6, NetBeans, Aptana and nano.

Douglas Brown is running a poll in a new post to his blog asking which of the six choices (of the major PHP frameworks) is your favorite PHP framework.

In a perfect world, I would suggest to learn them all! However, there are only 24 hours in a day, and prioritizing your PHP framework education might be a good idea. So above I added a poll that I plead to other PHP developers out there to vote on. Hopefully after a lot of participation we will see the most popular PHP framework.

His motivation is to provide a good resource to developers looking to choose a framework and wanting to find one of the best supported and most used choices. He also solicits comments on the post if you have opinions on why one framework shines above the rest.

The International PHP Magazine has posted the results from the latest poll (they conducted over the past week) that asked which of the options given was your favorite framework choice.

Options included CodeIgniter, CakePHP, PHP on TRAX, Propel, Seagull, Solar, the Zend Framework and more. Coming in with the largest percentage of the votes, though was CakePHP with 56.1 percent of the responses. Coming in second (but a ways behind) was CodeIgniter followed by the Zend Framework.

If you didn't get a chance to get your vote in on that poll, you can get in on this week's poll and voice your opinion. This time, they're asking which (of the given options) should a programmer give the more emphasis to when developing their application.

The results are in from the latest poll the International PHP Magazine hosted last week. They asked visitors to vote on which of the options given they thought was their most "favorite trick" when running Symfony and Subversion.

Options included "Ignore other auto-generated files", "Linking to Symfony Plugins", and "Ignoring files in >cache/ and log/" with the last of these coming out on top. It had 44.4 percent of the votes followed by the "linking the symfony library" option with 33.3 percent.

Be sure to get your vote in for this week's poll by picking your favorite framework from the list (including CodeIgniter, CakePHP, PHP on TRAX, Seagull and Solar).

The International PHP Magazine has posted the results of their latest poll conducted over the past week. They asked developers which of the given options was the best feature of the version 1 release of PHPExcel.

Options for this week's poll included "Creating an in-memory spreadsheet representation", "Adding Worksheets to Spreadsheet", and "Setting Spreadsheet Meta Data", but in the end, it was the "None" option that won out with almost thirty percent of the votes. Tied for second, each with 2.4% of the votes were the options "Creating an in-memory spreadsheet representation", "Setting Spreadsheet Meta Data", and "Adding Worksheets to Spreadsheet".

If you'd like to get in on the action for this week's poll, check out the question and answers for the week - which one of the options is your favorite CMS written in PHP. (Options include Drupal, Joomla, and the Dragonfly CMS).

The results from the latest poll the International PHP Magazine posted this past week are in. This time, they asked which of the options they gave was the visitor's most favorite PHP-based game.

Two options got the majority of the votes - 34.7 percent for Alien Assault Traders and the ever-popular catch all option "None". Other games that were included in the list were things like phpDiplomacy, Solar Empire, Star Trek Allegiance, and Solar Empire. The rest of these options all had around 5 percent or lower of the votes.

In their latest poll, though, they move back into the usual web development arena with the question "Which is the Best Tip for Creating a Web Application in PHP?". Options include using page/object caching and implementing gzip compression.

The International PHP Magazine conducted a poll this past week that asked visitors to vote on which of the options was the biggest strength that the Symfony framework had over the competition.

Of the four options given, the one that came out on top was that the project is still under active development and was being added to all the time. Coming in second place was an appreciation for the level of documentation that the project offers.

Be sure to get your votes in on this week's poll that takes a step back and asks visitors to pick which of the options is their favorite framework. Options include WACT, CakePHP, Prado, Phrame, and others. Head over and cast your vote today.

The International PHP Magazine has posted the results from their latest poll on their site today. The question of the week this time was "which of the following is your favorite category of PHP functionality?"

Among the options, there was "General PHP", "PHP Design", "PHP & XML" and "PHP Security". The one that came out on top, however, was "PHP & Databases" with 26.4% of the vote. Next in line was tied up between two options - "General PHP" and "PHP & Business/Ingegration" both with 15.3% of the votes.

Be sure anc check out (and vote on) their new poll for the week asking readers what they think is the biggest advantage of making to move to PHP5 for their scripts.