Hello, everyone.
I am new to PHP programming and I have an upcomming project to build a site. This site will be a Image Archive Site for a company's product images and promotional images.
I am sure I can learn PHP very quick since I am a fluent C/C++/Perl programmer. Once I finished with PHP stuff what would you guys recommend me to do this project.
These are what I want to know for now.
I want to be able to save image files in a data server such as mysql. (I know this is possible but I don't know how to do it.)
Is there any PHP library for image manipulation, such as changing image size, automatic format converting, automatic thumbnail image generation, automatic physical size detection, etc....
What is the proper developement environment for such a corporate level project? such as PHP IDE, web server (I like to use apache though) or anything else you guys might want to recommend me.
What are the must have PHP books?
It will be nice to hear any kind of guidence or overal directions that I have to take to complete this project.
Thanks for all your help in advance.
