Best place to get PHP generic code examples

Question

Aside from the PEAR repository, which I find often has quite messy code with a lot of it using old or deprecated methods and techniques, I was wondering if there was a great place to find simple (and not so simple) PHP examples of some generic functions and good pieces that people have written.

A good example would be the PEAR spreadsheet module I used a while back. The thing worked but it was written quite messily and if I remember correctly, in PHP 4.

I'd like to find something with well written and well documented code that I can refer to and see exactly how people are doing things and why they are doing things that way.

Answer 1

The PHP manual's as good a place to start as any, I've particularly found some of the comments on there helpful.

There's also The PHP Resource Index, which is mostly a jumping off point to other projects' websites.

Don't forget to look at questions tagged PHP on stackoverflow.

Answer 2

Have a look at PHP Classes. They have a large selection of classes, all with user ratings.

Answer 3

There's also Zend Framework spesific ZF Snippets site

Answer 4

Github is another good resource, more often than not it is polished code that is updated frequently.

Getting classes from other people is all well and good but keep upgrade-ability in mind, if i'm using someone else's class and need to tweek it i always extend from it.