PHP + app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 7712 ratings )

Reference Book
Developer: Paul Hudson

0.99 USD

Current version: 1.7, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 01 Jun 2011
App size: 70.79 Mb

This is by far the most comprehensive PHP reference app on the App Store, providing not only the complete PHP manual in a fast, searchable form, but also a complete copy of my book Practical PHP Programming, which provides in-depth documentation for hundreds of PHP functions alongside over a thousand practical code examples to help you get the most from PHP. If youve ever heard someone talk about "the Hudzilla PHP book", youve just found it!

This app gives you:
- The complete PHP manual at your fingertips with a beautiful, iPhone- and iPad-optimised reading experience.
- Fast function look up and description for over 4000 functions
- A complete copy of my book Practical PHP Programming, which is a heavily revised and extended edition of the OReilly book "PHP in a Nutshell".
- Full keyword search across the PHP manual and Practical PHP Programming, helping you find what you need fast.
- Covers everything from MySQL, OOP, networking and XML through to security concerns, optimising your code and writing custom PHP extensions.
- Works across iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with a single purchase - use it wherever you want!

Some other apps just give you the PHP manual, some give you a half-baked PHP tutorial, but Practical PHP gives you all that and a whole lot more - its the ultimate tutorial and reference guide for PHP developers of all levels!

But dont just take my word for it - here are some things others have said:

"Love having a look at this app while bored and of course while working. Really clear and well presented. Great for beginners or experienced phpers!" - Coatezy

"This book has everything for experienced coders and for new coders. Reference or reading to learn from scratch" - Zabadda

- "Author Paul Hudson has done an outstanding job of writing a book that is a complete reference to the core of the language, as well as the most popular PHP extensions...This excellent book is designed by the author to provide depth and breadth that cant be found elsewhere. Thus, this book provides the maximum information density on PHP, without all of the fluff and extras that get in the way." - Amazon.com

- "...an ideal first choice book on PHP for programmers. It covers all of the core functionality of the language in a concise way without getting bogged down in the details of how the lesser used parts of the language function." - Stephen Chapman, Fellgall.com

- "The authors writing style is very easy to embrace, which makes reading this book a breeze. The author clearly knows PHP very well and provides many, many resourceful nuggets of experience in the paragraphical excursion through this insightful book." - Rob Wehrli

- "This book is an invaluable aid, complementing the online PHP manual as a useful, concise reference guide ... liberally strewn with excellent examples and clear diagrams, and is well written for its target audience" - dakegra

- "I highly recommend this book for experienced PHP developers, and as a companion to a tutorial for beginners." - S. Stanicki

Check out the screenshots below to see how it looks, and please get in touch if you have any suggestions for future versions!

Pros and cons of PHP + app for iPhone and iPad

PHP + app good for

A really good reference2go. Its worth every single cent. Thanks for this great app!

Please add the following features to get a five star rating: - user bookmarks - user annotations So far it has been a good read ,)

This app assumes that you understand HTML and how to do some setup for the server but as far as the actual code goes its is amazing with its examples and how in depth it is with principals. I have been jumping around the book and I never feel lost or that Im missing something.

I code php for a living. I like to read all things php just in case Im missing something… Going through the book section Ive found a whole bunch of small things that either I didnt know or had forgotten from years gone by. Love this app!

Some bad moments

Im only through the first several sections and while the content is good (pretty standard on most stuff but with some great explanations) the code examples given are chopped off and you cant scroll right in the code to see what is missing. You kind of have to guess the code. Fix this issue and Ill update the review. Thanks.

This app is certainly worth the 99 cents as its a pretty handy way to make changes to code you might have sitting on the web. It does not run php locally, but thats to be expected. It would be most helpful if it allowed code to be copied and pasted so one wouldnt need to type some of the same things over and over. Copy is not available at all, and if you think you can copy some code from somewhere else and past it into this app, youre in for a surprise - the encoding is all wrong so even though it looks okay after the paste, a preview (there is a preview mode) shows it to be a real mess. There is no back-tick symbol (used in php) available on the keyboard or quick-symbol insertions provided, so one needs to go to ones email which does provide it with that apps keyboard, type it, then copy and paste it into the php app. Fortunately that back- tick symbol does copy from another app into this one with no problem. No real help is a available, so be aware that what is seen with the app explanation and developers website is all that there is. But like I said, its certainly worth the 99 cents. If the developer fixes these things (and whatever else might be lurking in the shadows) this could definitely become a real gem worth much more!

Great app that comes with a small ebook to help you along the way

I am php dev. And this is the best red I have ever used. Thank dev.

I have another PHP program ( php riot ) that has the " manual" and it reads and is organized like the book (TOC, etc...). The manual here is seperated out by topic and I wasnt really sure that it was the manual. Search for " getting started" and you get no results in the manual. Search for "tutorial".. Same. Can you include the TOC on the manual? Otherwise Ill be switching BTWN two apps for what I think is maybe not already there but might be. Otherwise... Love the authors style. Easy to follow. I have to learn PHP in the next week and I think I might actually have a shot now. Thanks!!

I havent a logical bone in me, hence coding/programming does not come naturally. That said, this book makes me feel as if I could climb tallest mountain. Everything is well explained, clear and concise. This newbie here an eager student become. Thanks

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