The great advantage of phpLD is the number of templates and mods available. There are complete sites devoted to mods and templates, so in addtion to this site, you will find lots of helpful information elsewhere too. There is no shortage of people available to help you find success with your directory.

There is  a very active support forum where people are able to get help, discuss features, request mods, or release mods. If you have questions, you will find answers in the support forum, and They strive to answer all questions.

While phpLD can still be used strictly as a link directory script, it has evolved into a full fledged CMS that allows for page creation, article submission, user submitted content, and the ability to customize nearly everything to fit the needs of your website.

It is currently in version 3.3.0 of the script, and you are invited to take a look at the phpLD Features page to see some of the many features phpLD offers.

You can find a DEMO here.

And Download the free version of 2.1.2  here.

The PHP courses, complemented with PHP 5 Certification Training, prepare students for the Zend PHP Certification Examination. With over 3,300 Zend Certified Engineers (ZCEs) worldwide, Zend Certification has become the global standard by which enterprises select, recruit and educate PHP professionals. More than 300 ZCEs advertise their Zend certification on their resumes in the LinkedIn professional network (http://www.linkedin.com).

Oxagile is a rapidly growing software outsourcing company with a strong focus on quality. They have achieved  a number of goals with their participation in Zend’s certification programs.

“Becoming a certified expert brings many benefits to the engineer, to the company, and its clients,” says Dmitry Karpovich, Oxagile CEO.  “The ZCE Certification demonstrates that the development team keeps in step with the latest PHP technology.  And it helps to show our customers and prospects that we have highly qualified PHP developers where it matters most of all - their critical projects.”

Through Zend, enterprise organizations have access to a complete training portfolio that enable their staff to deliver high-impact web applications faster, more predictably, and with better quality. They’ll be trained in industry best practices for web development, leveraging the modern object-oriented capabilities of PHP and frameworks, while leveraging state-of-the-art Zend product solutions.

“Signing our engineers up for the Zend Framework training was by far the best ROI investment I’ve made for our project,” said Jose C. Lacal with HealthLibrarian. “Our engineers delivered a fully working search engine with many customizations we needed within two weeks of completing Zend’s course.”

“By offering our curriculum in multiple languages, on-line and on-site through Zend training centers, Authorized Training Partners, and in collaboration with universities, we make our training easily accessible to both the growing PHP community and to commercial companies worldwide,” said Susie Sedlacek, vice president for global services at Zend. “Participants also benefit from our in-depth analysis of customer input, extensive research, and proven methods of instructional design. Zend has invested thousands of hours of experience into developing a curriculum that focuses on business relevance.”

“Our goal is to endow our clients with the skills and tools necessary to meet their needs in the most convenient and powerful methods used in adult education today, and our consistently high customer satisfaction ratings confirm our success,” adds Deirdre Bradley, head of instructional design at Zend.

Sponsored by Zend and delivered through Pearson Vue, the Zend PHP certification, leading to the title of Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE), is the standard for developers who want to demonstrate PHP proficiency.

Zend Certification testing is provided as part of conference attendance at the Zend/PHP Conference 2008, to be held in Santa Clara, California from September 15-18. For more information about ZendCon and to register, please visithttp://www. zendcon. com.

For additional details about Zend Training programs including courses, schedules, training partners, and for course registration, please visithttp://www.zend.com/training.

Zend Technologies, Inc., The PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications.  PHP is used by more than twenty million web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications.  Deployed at more than 25,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications.  Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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By Chen Nan Yang [via:Linux.com]

Since the Chinese government began supporting domestic open source communities in 2005, hundreds of thousands of young people in the world’s most populous country have become a part of the open source world.

If you’re interested in running a website from your home server, you may have considered various options, including running PHP. But running PHP with IIS can be fraught with problems - or at least was, until WGS reader, Christopher Courtney, wrote the following guide to installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server. Over to Christopher…

Because running IIS and Apache really isn’t feasable, one needs to be able to install PHP into IIS. If you have tried before or searched for how, you will notice many different ways, and a lot of problems with doing so. I’ve tried several times and gotten the same problem, but finally fixed it and got PHP working under IIS. Now I am going to share it.

What You Will Need

• Remote Desktop Connection or Advanced Admin Console
• Regedit
• PHP 5.2.5 files zipped
• PECL modules for PHP 5.2.5 - For added support, functionality, and compatibility.
• MySQL Download - optional but recommended, many php applications require sql. And MySQL has a free version.

What to Do

You will need to download PHP. There are a number of issues with the installer, so we are going to be using the zipped file. Make sure the zip file is accessible from the server (it needs to be in one the shares, or on the SYS drive of the server.

You will need then need to gain remote access to your Windows Home Server box (Use a Remote Desktop Connection or Advanced Admin Console).

Install PHP

1. Extract the files from the PHP zip and place the files in “C:\php”. Extract the PECL modules to “C:\php\ext”.
2. Rename C:\php\php.ini-recommended to “C:\php\php.ini”.
3. Open both the php.ini file you have now and uncomment cgi.force_redirect in php.ini and set it to 0
4. Find SMTP = localhost and make sure it is uncommented. If your mail server is somewhere else you may specify it here. Also set this line just below the above: sendmail_from = someone@yourhost.com
5. Change session.save_path as “session.save_path=C:\php\sessions” and make the directory C:\php\sessions
6. Set the line “extension_dir” as “extension_dir = “C:\PHP\ext”.
7. Uncomment the following extensions:

   extension=php_mssql.dll
   extension=php_msql.dll
   extension=php_mysql.dll
   extension=php_mysqli.dll
   extension=php_java.dll
   extension=php_ldap.dll
   extension=php_iisfunc.dll
   extension=php_imap.dll
   extension=php_filepro.dll
   extension=php_gd2.dll
   extension=php_gettext.dll
   extension=php_dba.dll
   extension=php_dbase.dll
   extension=php_dbx.dll
   extension=php_mbstring.dll
   extension=php_pdf.dll
   extension=php_pgsql.dll
   extension=php_sockets.dll
   extension=php_xmlrpc.dll
   extension=php_xsl.dll
   extension=php_zip.dll

8. This will enable you to use pretty much any database you may have installed. Additionally, it should allow you to use most functions for php that you will need.
9. This part may not be necessary, but it was definitely for me. Go to “C:\” an right click on “Properties”. Go to the Security Tab, and click on the “Advanced Button”. Enable “Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects”, and click okay.
10. Go to Control panel > System Properties > Advanced Tab > Click “Environment Variables”.
11. Now add “C:\PHP;” to the very beginning.
12. Now run “regedit.exe” or Start Registry Editor (same program)
13. Add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP\IniFilePath = “C:\php” to the registry.
14. Open Internet Services Manager which is in your Administrative Tools.
15. Right Click on Web Service Extensions located on the left hand side and choose Add a new web service extension. Enter in php and click add. Browse to C:\php\php5isapi.dll. Also set extension status to allow. Click “Okay”.
16. Right Click on websites and choose properties. Go to the Documents tab and add index.php as a start document. Go to the Home Directory Tab and click on Configuration. Now go to the mappings tab and click on add. Enter .php for the extension and enter “C:\php\php5isapi.dll” in the executable textbox. Make sure all verbs is checked and click ok, click ok, click ok. You are done installing it. Now you need to test it. 
17. Go to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and make a new text file and name it phpinfo.php. Open it up with your text editor ant put this in it: <?php phpinfo(); ?>.
18. Open a web Browser and go to http://SERVER/phpinfo.php
19. If you followed all the instructions, it should work fine.

Installing Your Database

Once you have downloaded the MySQL installer, run it on the server. I would run step by step through the install, but pretty much all the defaults are optimal for what we want. It’s going to run using as little resources as possible, and a small number of concurrent connections. This is what we want, because this the enviroment we are going to be running. We’re not running a dedicated database server after all.

So, that’s how to install PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server - we’ll be featuring a number of technical guides from Christopher over the next few weeks, all of which will be stored on the forthcoming We Got Served Wiki.

More Info: WGS Wiki 

Freeglobes is a Free PHP/MySQL directory, aims to be user friendly and respectfull of the standards of the internet, easy to install and  be customized. There is a plugin system, you can add new features to Freeglobes without having to modify the main source code.
And Freeglobes is a open source php directory, free to use! You can build up a web directory very easily.
Freeglobes is written by a french guy, but there is a English language version.
You can find more information about at the Freeglobes official site, and live demo here and here( live webcams ), the supporting forum, a wiki of Freeglobes, and you can find lots of Freeglobes themes here.

Download Freeglobes.

Requirements:
- PHP 4 (4.3.0 or greater); PHP 5 is not officially supported. (it may work with PHP5 but some features may have bugs)
- MySQL 3.23 or greater (MySQL 4 and greater is recommended)
- PHP GD2 and XML libraries
- Optional : URL Rewrite. this feature can be disabled in admin panel if your host doesn’t support it. It’s recommended to enable it.

Here’s a little guide that will help you install and run a Wordpress blog locally on your windows XP os in less then 10 minutes:

Install wampserver on your computer, if you have any questions about it, you can find more details on my another airticle of Use wamp to build a php website running environment(windows) , keep the wampserver running.

1. Open your web browser(IE,firefox…),and type http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ ,use the phpmyadmin to create a new database for wordpress .

   

   create a wordpress mysql database

    

2. Download Wordpressand unzip it under the WWW folder (generally c:\wamp\www) ,and rename the default folder name to what you like, such as “blog”, “myblog”…etc.
3. Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.
   Open wp-config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details. Attention, you should not use notepad.exe to edit the wp-config.php file, otherwise an error may be occurred.A text editor is a program which edits files in plain text format, as compared to binary format. Using a non-text based word processing program (e.g. using Microsoft Word to edit PHP scripts) can cause major problems in your code. This is because non-text based word processing programs insert extra formatting into text files, and can corrupt the files when they need to be interpreted by the interpreter. An editor like Notepad does not insert any extra formatting. Edit WordPress Files with a text only editor. some examples are  UltraEdit-32, TextPad, EditPlus, Notepad++ …etc.
4. Run the WordPress installation script by accessing http://localhost/myblog/wp-admin/install.php in your favorite web browser. The myblog folder is the one you put all files in, maybe another name.

That’s all, it’s so easy to install it on local computer, if you’v installed successfully, let me know.

1. First, download the software from the official site download page of wampserver.The newest version is wampserver2.0, including Apache 2.2.8, MySQL 5.0.51b, and PHP 5.2.6 .
2. Second, install it.You can find detial information from here.
3.  Third,when you have installed wampserver, a “www” directory is created (generally c:\wamp\www). Create a directory inside for your project and put your PHP files in it. Click on the link “Localhost” in the WampServer menu or open your browser and open the http://localhost address. 
   
4. Fourth,Add Apache, MySQL and PHP releases. 
   WampServer allows you to install almost all the existing releases of Apache, PHP and MySQL so you can reproduce exactly the settings of your production server.
   To add a new release, donwload it here and install it.
5. Finally, click on the WampServer menu and activate the release that you want to use.
   

 Wait until the WampServer icon become white again and start to work.

Now, you can put your php scripts into the WWW folder, and use URL such as:http://localhost/test.php
to run it.

Wish you a good luck!

• Copyright
• PHP Manual
  • Preface
• Getting Started
  • Introduction
  • A simple tutorial
• Installation and Configuration
  • General Installation Considerations
  • Installation on Unix systems
  • Installation on Mac OS X
  • Installation on Windows systems
  • Installation of PECL extensions
  • Problems?
  • Runtime Configuration
• Language Reference
  • Basic syntax
  • Types
  • Variables
  • Constants
  • Expressions
  • Operators
  • Control Structures
  • Functions
  • Classes and Objects (PHP 4)
  • Classes and Objects (PHP 5)
  • Namespaces
  • Exceptions
  • References Explained
  • Predefined variables
  • Predefined Exceptions
  • Context options and parameters
• Security
  • Introduction
  • General considerations
  • Installed as CGI binary
  • Installed as an Apache module
  • Filesystem Security
  • Database Security
  • Error Reporting
  • Using Register Globals
  • User Submitted Data
  • Magic Quotes
  • Hiding PHP
  • Keeping Current
• Features
  • HTTP authentication with PHP
  • Cookies
  • Sessions
  • Dealing with XForms
  • Handling file uploads
  • Using remote files
  • Connection handling
  • Persistent Database Connections
  • Safe Mode
  • Using PHP from the command line
• Function Reference
  • Affecting PHP’s Behaviour
  • Audio Formats Manipulation
  • Authentication Services
  • Calendar and Event Related Extensions
  • Command Line Specific Extensions
  • Compression and Archive Extensions
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Cryptography Extensions
  • Database Extensions
  • File System Related Extensions
  • Human Language and Character Encoding Support
  • Image Processing and Generation
  • Mail Related Extensions
  • Mathematical Extensions
  • Non-Text MIME Output
  • Process Control Extensions
  • Other Basic Extensions
  • Other Services
  • Search Engine Extensions
  • Server Specific Extensions
  • Session Extensions
  • Text Processing
  • Variable and Type Related Extensions
  • Web Services
  • Windows Only Extensions
  • XML Manipulation
• PHP at the Core: A Hacker’s Guide to the Zend Engine
  • Preface
  • The “counter” Extension - A Continuing Example
  • The PHP 5 build system
  • Extension structure
  • Memory management
  • Working with variables
  • Writing functions
  • Working with classes and objects
  • Working with resources
  • Working with INI settings
  • Working with streams
  • PDO Driver How-To
  • Extension FAQs
  • Zend Engine 2 API reference
  • Zend Engine 1
  • The future: PHP 6 and Zend Engine 3
• FAQ — FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
  • General Information
  • Mailing lists
  • Obtaining PHP
  • Database issues
  • Installation
  • Build Problems
  • Using PHP
  • PHP and HTML
  • PHP and COM
  • PHP and other languages
  • Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
  • Miscellaneous Questions
• Appendices
  • History of PHP and related projects
  • Migrating from PHP 5.1.x to PHP 5.2.x
  • Migrating from PHP 5.0.x to PHP 5.1.x
  • Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
  • Debugging in PHP
  • Configure options
  • php.ini directives
  • Extension Categorization
  • List of Function Aliases
  • List of Reserved Words
  • List of Resource Types
  • List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers
  • List of Available Filters
  • List of Supported Socket Transports
  • PHP type comparison tables
  • List of Parser Tokens
  • Userland Naming Guide
  • About the manual
  • Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
  • Function Index

1. E-commerce.
2. Password protection.
3. Advertising.
4. Database management.
5. Auctions.

PHP is quick to learn, and quick to develop (in an environment free from distractions). It is faster than pearl, simpler than c and just better than ASP for every reason possible. The PHP reference is useful and complete with good examples and user contributed notes, probably the most helpful help manual I?ve ever used. PHP with mySQl is very easy to develop and use and probably the best language to use for any dynamic site or business / shopping site, though only just better than c because of its short development time, and general easiness. If you know c, c++ or any other ?proper? programming languages you will find PHP extremely easy. Unlike ASP (which is based on a shitty VB) its structure has many similarities to c and c++ as well as JavaScript. Unlike sites made in c it is very easy to switch between PHP and HTML in a page, and small pieces of PHP code can easily be inserted into HTML documents.