phpMyAdmin is the supreme database administration system for MySQL databases. It is also one of the oldest and most widely used open source applications under active development available today.
The official documentation covers everything all in one (very) long page: requirements, installation, setup, configuration, faq and glossary.
Link: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/
phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up MySQL user who can read/write only the desired database. It's up to you to look up the appropriate part in the MySQL manual.
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WordPress is a free powerful publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.
The documentation site for Wordpress (the Codex) is massive with hundreds of pages devoted to the overall project features, screenshots, how to contribute. The codex also includes entire sections for basic and advanced users to get a feel for using Wordpress and get their hands dirty on the internals. From getting started, to http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress, design and layout, advanced topics, developer documentation and troubleshooting the Wordpress Codex has you covered.
It covers versions all the way back to 1.2 (current as of this writing is 2.2) with changelogs of each version, many of which include diffs of the changed files.
Link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
“WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on web standards and user experience we can create a tool different from anything else out there.”
WordPress About Page
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The project’s official tag line says it all
CodeIgniter is an open source Web Application Framework that helps you write kick-ass PHP programs.
One of CodeIgniter’s biggest advantages is it’s extensive user guide.
Link: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/index.html
CodeIgniter is an Application Development Framework - a toolkit - for people who build web sites using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries. CodeIgniter lets you creatively focus on your project by minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task.
Popularity: 32%
PEAR is short for PHP Extension and Application Repository. It provides a library of reusable open-source PHP functions and code to do everything from authentication to database abstraction to high-level web services. PEAR also includes a code distribution and package maintenance system to make administering a PEAR distribution a no brainer. A full list of available packages may be found in the PEAR Package Browser.
Link: http://pear.php.net/manual/
The PEAR documentation is a centralized place where developers can add the documentation for their package.
Currently the documentation is available in the following languages:
The translations of the following languages are outdated but still available:
Popularity: 39%
ZenCart is one of the most popular open source PHP ecommerce packages on the planet. Their documentation section contains contains hundreds of FAQs, tutorials and howtos. They cover everything from installation (32 documents as of this writing), templating and customization (52), general administration (48), order processing (6), security (8) and troubleshooting (32).
Link: http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php
Popularity: 78%
Link: http://smarty.php.net/docs.php
Official documentation for Smarty Templates
The Smarty manual is available online. For a printer-friendly format, add "?print=1" to the end of the URL on the page you want to print.
English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
Popularity: 100%
