IT

Installation/Configuration

• How to install PHP 4 on Windows

Resources:

• Official PHP Manual (Language Reference, Installation and Configuration, Security, Features, etc.)
• PHP Tutorial at w3schools
• Official PHP site
• Comunidade portuguesa de PHP 
• Debugging techniques for PHP programmers (includding IDEs etc.)

IDE

•  NetBeans
• Configurar o Eclipse para debug de sites PHP

Downloads:

• WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin to easily manage your databases. 

Symfony resources:

• A Gentle Introduction to symfony (pdf)
• Official ebooks
• Jobeet, a 24-days tutorial, teaches you how to develop a web application in PHP with the symfony framework (check the subversion repository to check the source code)

Symfony Installation notes:

• Symfony (PHP Framwework) Installation on Windows + WAMP
• Fix "phar "C:\xampp\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar" does not have a signature" installation error
• Setting the web server to gain access to symfony_data/web/sf/ directory 
• Developing with Symfony1.2, NetBeans6.8, PostgreSQL in WampServer