1. Create a Flash Login System Using PHP and MySQL

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create simple but professional Flash login system using three different programming languages; AS3, PHP and MYSQL.

2. Get User IP Address Using PHP and ActionScript 3

An Internet Protocol Address (IP Address), is a unique number assigned to every device connected to the Internet. For different reasons, it can be useful to get the user IP address, like blocking a spammer user in a chat application for example. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get and display the user’s IP address using PHP and ActionScript.

3. Using Actionscript 3.0 With PHP : Loading External Variables

Creating dynamic websites which combine the power of Flash or Flex with PHP is easier than ever with ActionScript 3.0.

4. Connect to PHP with Actionscript 3 and Post variables to PHP

This is the simplest way to communicate with PHP and Actionscript 3 and it’s extremely fast and efficient as well.

5. Flash Contact Form in ActionScript 3 and PHP

This flash contact form is simply made in Adobe Flash CS3 ActionScript 3. Email validation is better than previous version in ActionScript 2. It sends the form field variables to PHP and loads the response variables back to Flash using URLVariables, URLLoader, and URLRequest classes. It will be very useful for you to use or adapt it for your Flash projects.

6. Introduction to Flash and PHP

This is the first part of a series of tutorials looking at using PHP and Flash. In this first tutorial we’re going to take things relatively easy.

7. Actionscript 3.0 Tutorial PHP MySQL Bar Graph Dynamic Basics [video]

Learn the very basics of creating dynamic bar graphs using Flash Actionscript 3.0 for CS3 CS4 and CS5. We use PHP and MySQL for dynamics.

8. Creating an Email Form with Actionscript 3.0 and PHP

Developer will explain then describes step by step how to create a basic form of sending email using Actionscript 3.0 and PHP.

9. Hit Counter Flash + PHP for full Flash website pages

With this tutorial you will learn how to create Flash hit counter using Actionscript and PHP.

10. Flash Website Voting Poll Tutorial: Actionscript 3.0 PHP MySQL [video]

Learn how to build more creative polling and voting applications for all of your website projects. We are using Flash Actionscript 3.0, PHP, and MySQL.

11. PHP Session Variables + ActionScript 3

This is a forum post which will help you in using Session Variables with PHP/AS3/MySQL.

12. Object Oriented ActionScript 3, using PHP & SQL

This tutorial explores one of many methods, which could be used to allow an ActionScript 3 swf file to communicate back and forth to an SQL database, storing and retrieving values in a table.

13. Build a Dynamic Gallery with ActionScipt 3.0 and PHP

In this tutorial, we’ll create a gallery which displays all image files in a given directory. A slider is used to browse easily through the images.

14. Create a Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL

In this tutorial, developer will show you how to use Flash, PHP and MySQL together. We’ll build a simple comment form that takes entries and stores them in a database. We’ll use PHP to retrieve the entries and format the comments into XML form.

15. PHP/Flash Score List [video]

This tutorial explains how to make a asy and simple PHP/Flash/MySQL high score list for your website and flash game.

16. Creating a Reusable Flash Uploader with ActionScript 3.0 and PHP

In this tutorial developer will show you how to build a Flash uploader for uploading files from the user’s computer.

17. Flash guestbook with PHP

Learn how to create flash guestbook using PHP and Actionscript.

18. Developing Flash based applications with PHP

Here is a simple tutorial with step-by-step learning on how to connect make Flash based applications to interact with PHP programming- helping you to start and explore backend database driven Flash.

Here is the list of tools:

PHP Debugging Tools

1. Gubed PHP Debugger

Gubed is a cross platform program to debug PHP scripts.

2. PHP Debug

The basic purpose of PHP_Debug is to provide assistance in debugging PHP code, by “debug” i don’t mean “step by step debug” but program trace, variables display, process time, included files, queries executed, watch variables.

3. DBG

DBG is a a full-featured php debugger, an interactive tool that helps you debugging php scripts.

4. PHP Dyn

PHP Dyn is PHP Extension to help debugging a PHP script.You can get execution trace of scripts not to need change them.HTTP request parameter can be printed.Argument value of the function call and return value can be printed.

5. Xdebug

The Xdebug extension helps you debugging your script by providing a lot of valuable debug information.

5. Webgrind

Webgrind is an Xdebug profiling web frontend in PHP5. It implements a subset of the features of kcachegrind and installs in seconds and works on all platforms.

6. MacGDBp

Debugging a live, running PHP application has never been so easy. It’s a live PHP debugger application for the Mac OS.

7. Advanced PHP Debugger

APD is a full-featured profiler/debugger that is loaded as a zend_extension. It aims to be an analog of C’s gprof or Perl’s Devel::DProf.

How To Debug PHP Code

How to Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP

This article shares an elegant, simple, and more maintainable way of debugging Ajax apps via the web browser (more specifically for the Mozilla Firefox browser). You’ll learn the basics of leveraging Firefox in conjunction with Firebug and FirePHP to implement FirePHP libraries on web apps and logging messages in the Firebug console.

How to Debug in PHP

This article breaks down the fundamentals of debugging in PHP, helps you understand PHP’s error messages and introduces you to some useful tools to help make the process a little less painful.

Debugging PHP using Eclipse and PDT

Use XDebug or Zend Debugger to boost your productivity when fixing bugs in PHP applications.

Debugging PHP with Xdebug

The Xdebug is the extension for PHP that helps debugging PHP scripts by providing a lot of valuable debug information. The debug information includes stack traces and function traces in error messages, memory allocation and protection for infinite recursions.

Debug PHP with DBG Wizard

You can easily debug PHP with PhpED’s PHP Debugger. Setting up your system to debug php scripts can be tricky but PhpED’s Settings Wizard can take care of the majority of the debugging configurations.

You have to make sure you opt for the best php hosting for your website.

In this post i have compiled tools and resources for php developers which will make their life easier.

1. Symfony

Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP.

Symfony Project

2. MODx

MODx helps you take control of your online content. An Open Source PHP application framework, it frees you to build sites exactly how you want and make them 100% yours.

Modx CMS

3. PHP Object Generator

PHP Object Generator, (POG) is an open source which automatically generates clean & tested Object Oriented code for your PHP4/PHP5 application.

PHP Object Generator

4. Zend Studio

Zend Studio for Eclipse combines proven capabilities to create the world’s most powerful IDE for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).

Zend Studio

5. CakePHP

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.

Cake PHP

6. DBG | PHP Debugger and Profiler

DBG is a a full-featured php debugger, an interactive tool that helps you debugging php scripts.

PHP Debugger

7. FirePHP

FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call.

Fire PHP Firefox Extension

8. Aukyla

Aukyla Software is an offspring of Auton Rijnsburg, specialized in software development and web services.

9. BlueShoes

BlueShoes is a comprehensive application framework and content management system. It is written in the widely used web-scripting language PHP.

Blue Shoes - PHP Framework

10. Horde Application Framework

The Horde Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework in PHP, providing classes for dealing with preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME handling, and more.

11. CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications

CodeIgniter - PHP framework

12. PhpOpenbiz

Want to build a data centric business application without dirty code – PhpOpenbiz (Openbiz) is the solution!

13. Qcodo

The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP 5 framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding.

14. Seagull PHP Framework

Seagull is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.

15. Zoop

PHP coding in an object oriented framework that’s ajax friendly.

Zoop Framework

16. Xaraya

Xaraya is a cutting edge open source framework (written in PHP) on which developers can create sophisticated web applications and designers enjoy considerable flexibility.

Xaraya Open Source Framework

17. SimpleTest

It is a PHP unit test and web test framework.

Simple Test - PHP Unit Testing

18. phpDocumentor

The complete documentation solution for PHP.

19. Securimage

Securimage is an open-source free PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse.

20. PIXY

Pixy is a Java program that performs automatic scans of PHP 4 source code.

21. PHP/SWF Charts

PHP/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful PHP tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic data.

22. WideImage

WideImage is an object-oriented library for image manipulation, written in/for PHP 5?

22. PHP_Beautifier

This program reformat and beautify PHP 4 and PHP 5 source code files automatically. The program is Open Source and distributed under the terms of PHP Licence. It is written in PHP 5 and has a command line tool.

23. Phing

It’s a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework.

24. HTML Purifier

HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP.

HTML Purifier

25. SimplePie

SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the ‘simple’ back into ‘really simple syndication’.

Simple PIE

26. Koders

Koders.com, the leading search engine for open source and other downloadable code now contains over 2 billion lines of code within its repository.

Koders - Search Engine