PHP: Powering more than just your blog

A new initiative for the MindTouch Community Portal is to flesh out the PHP documentation. For a long time, content has been scattered between user pages and deep hierarchies, but now PHP has found a home on the wiki, The PHP Documentation Home.

In the coming months, this section will start filling up with great tutorials and helpful reference documents. One of the newest installments is the first chapter in Accessing the API with PHP Plug. This tutorial covers the two different types of Plug classes available in PHP: DreamPlug and DekiPlug.  Power users who have shied away from developing PHP scripts, to interact with the API, now have a great launching point.

Another new addition to the PHP documentation family is the PHP Hooks reference. Since the Lyons release, MindTouch’s UI has had a growing list of integration points available. Each of these points allows a developer to tie in new functionality or augment the existing processes.

PHP is one of the fastest ways to begin development on the MindTouch platform and, going forward, it is my hope that this documentation will enable other developers to build and share compelling MindTouch driven applications. Code on!