Appendix D: Resources and Further Reading
Curated resources to deepen your knowledge of Claude AI and PHP integration. Bookmark this page for quick access to official docs, tools, and community resources.
Table of Contents
- Official Anthropic Resources
- PHP Libraries and SDKs
- Development Tools
- Learning Resources
- Community and Support
- Related Technologies
- Code Examples and Templates
- Blogs and Tutorials
- Books and Courses
Official Anthropic Resources
Documentation
- Complete API reference
- Getting started guides
- Best practices
- Code examples in multiple languages
- Manage API keys
- View usage and billing
- Test prompts in playground
- Monitor rate limits
- Practical code examples
- Common use case implementations
- Best practice patterns
- Community contributions
- Prompting techniques
- Few-shot learning
- Chain-of-thought prompting
- System prompt best practices
- Real-time API status
- Incident reports
- Scheduled maintenance
- Subscribe to updates
Official Repositories
bash
composer require anthropic-php/client- Official PHP SDK
- Type-safe client
- Streaming support
- Laravel integration examples
- Python SDK (for reference)
- Useful for understanding API patterns
- Well-documented examples
- TypeScript SDK
- Type definitions useful for PHP developers
- Modern async patterns
News and Updates
- Product announcements
- Research papers
- Feature releases
- Best practices
- AI safety research
- Constitutional AI papers
- Technical deep dives
- Interpretability research
- API changes
- New features
- Deprecations
- Migration guides
PHP Libraries and SDKs
Official SDK
bash
composer require anthropic-php/clientFeatures:
- Messages API
- Streaming responses
- Tool use (function calling)
- Vision API support
- Type-safe requests
- PSR-18 HTTP client
Quick Start:
php
# filename: sdk-quickstart.php
use Anthropic\Anthropic;
$client = Anthropic::factory()
->withApiKey(getenv('ANTHROPIC_API_KEY'))
->make();
$response = $client->messages()->create([
'model' => 'claude-sonnet-4-20250514',
'max_tokens' => 1024,
'messages' => [
['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Hello, Claude!']
]
]);Community Packages
bash
composer require anthropic-php/laravel- Laravel service provider
- Facade support
- Config management
- Queue integration
bash
composer require claudeai/symfony-bundle- Symfony integration
- Dependency injection
- Configuration
- Event dispatching
HTTP Clients
bash
composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle- PSR-7 HTTP client
- Async requests
- Middleware support
- Used by Anthropic SDK
bash
composer require symfony/http-client- PSR-18 compliant
- Async support
- HTTP/2 support
- Modern API
Testing Tools
bash
composer require --dev phpunit/phpunit- Unit testing framework
- Mock support
- Code coverage
bash
composer require --dev mockery/mockery- Flexible mocking
- Test doubles
- Spy support
bash
composer require --dev pestphp/pest- Modern testing framework
- Expressive syntax
- Laravel integration
Development Tools
IDE Extensions
- AI pair programming
- Context-aware suggestions
- Supports PHP
- IDE integration (VS Code, PhpStorm)
- Official Claude extension
- Inline AI assistance
- Code explanations
- Refactoring suggestions
- Built-in AI features
- Code completion
- Refactoring help
- Documentation generation
API Testing Tools
- API testing
- Request collections
- Environment variables
- Documentation
- REST client
- GraphQL support
- Environment management
- Code generation
bash
# Test Claude API from command line
http POST https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \
x-api-key:$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY \
anthropic-version:2023-06-01 \
model=claude-sonnet-4-20250514 \
max_tokens:=1024 \
messages:='[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]'Debugging Tools
bash
composer require laravel/telescope- Request monitoring
- Log viewer
- Queue monitoring
- Exception tracking
bash
composer require barryvdh/laravel-debugbar --dev- Query profiling
- Timeline
- Memory usage
- Request/response inspection
- Step debugging
- Code coverage
- Profiling
- Stack traces
Monitoring Tools
bash
composer require sentry/sentry-laravel- Error tracking
- Performance monitoring
- Release tracking
- Alerting
- Application monitoring
- Performance insights
- Real user monitoring
- Custom dashboards
- Infrastructure monitoring
- APM
- Log management
- Custom metrics
Learning Resources
Anthropic Guides
- Core concepts
- Model capabilities
- Use cases
- Limitations
- Writing effective prompts
- Few-shot examples
- System prompts
- Advanced techniques
- Function calling basics
- Defining tools
- Handling tool calls
- Best practices
- Image analysis
- Supported formats
- Best practices
- Limitations
- Server-Sent Events
- Handling stream events
- Error handling
- Client implementation
PHP Learning Resources
- Modern PHP practices
- Best practices
- Security guidelines
- Community standards
- Official Laravel docs
- Video tutorials (Laracasts)
- Best practices
- API reference
- Framework documentation
- Components reference
- Best practices
- Cookbook recipes
- PSR-1: Basic Coding Standard
- PSR-4: Autoloading
- PSR-7: HTTP Messages
- PSR-12: Extended Coding Style
AI/ML Fundamentals
Understanding Large Language Models
- LLM basics
- How transformers work
- Training and fine-tuning
- Limitations and biases
- Comprehensive prompting guide
- Techniques and strategies
- Real-world examples
- Research papers
- Similar concepts to Claude
- Code examples
- Best practices
- Use case patterns
Community and Support
Official Communities
- Official community
- Ask questions
- Share projects
- Get help from Anthropic team
- Discussion forum
- Feature requests
- Bug reports
- Best practices sharing
PHP Communities
- PHP subreddit
- News and discussions
- Help and advice
- Package announcements
- Laravel ecosystem news
- Tutorials
- Packages
- Job board
- Active community
- Help channels
- Project showcase
- Learning resources
- Q&A platform
- Search existing questions
- Ask new questions
- Tag:
php,anthropic,claude
Twitter/X Accounts to Follow
Anthropic:
- @AnthropicAI - Official account
- @darioamodei - CEO
- @jareddk - Research scientist
PHP:
- @official_php - PHP official
- @laravelphp - Laravel
- @symfony - Symfony
Related Technologies
Vector Databases
bash
composer require probablyrational/pinecone-php- Managed vector database
- Similarity search
- Metadata filtering
- Scalable
bash
composer require weaviate/weaviate-php- Open-source vector DB
- Hybrid search
- Multi-modal support
- Self-hosted option
- Open-source
- GPU acceleration
- Horizontal scaling
- Kubernetes native
bash
composer require predis/predis- Familiar Redis interface
- Vector similarity search
- Fast in-memory operations
- Easy integration
Embedding Services
bash
composer require openai-php/client- High-quality embeddings
- text-embedding-3-small
- text-embedding-3-large
- Popular choice for RAG
- Multilingual embeddings
- Semantic search
- Classification
- Clustering
Message Queues
bash
composer require predis/predis- In-memory data store
- Pub/sub
- Lists/streams
- Fast performance
bash
composer require php-amqplib/php-amqplib- Message broker
- Reliable queuing
- Routing
- Dead letter queues
bash
composer require laravel/horizon- Redis queue management
- Dashboard
- Metrics
- Job batching
Code Examples and Templates
Official Examples
- Customer service bot
- Code reviewer
- Data extraction
- Document analysis
- RAG implementation
Starter Templates
bash
composer create-project anthropic/laravel-claude-starter- Complete Laravel setup
- Authentication
- API integration
- Example endpoints
- Standalone PHP
- PSR-4 autoloading
- Environment configuration
- Example usage
Code Snippets
- Common patterns
- Helper functions
- Integration examples
- Best practices
- Community snippets
- One-off examples
- Quick solutions
- Experimental code
Blogs and Tutorials
Official Anthropic Blogs
- Product announcements
- Use case studies
- Technical deep dives
- Research updates
PHP and AI Blogs
- Laravel AI integration
- Package announcements
- Tutorials
- Best practices
- Laravel tutorials
- PHP best practices
- Package development
- Real-world examples
- Laravel expertise
- PHP development
- Architecture patterns
- Conference talks
- Laravel tutorials
- Chatbots with Laravel
- AI integrations
- Practical examples
Video Content
- Premium Laravel screencasts
- PHP fundamentals
- Modern techniques
- Community
- Official videos
- Product demos
- Research talks
- Webinars
- Official Laravel channel
- Conference talks
- Feature demos
- Community content
- Monthly PHP news
- Package reviews
- Community highlights
- Tips and tricks
Books and Courses
AI and LLM Books
"Building LLM Apps: Create Intelligent Apps with LLMs"
- Practical application development
- Integration patterns
- Production deployment
- Real-world case studies
"Prompt Engineering for Developers"
- Writing effective prompts
- Advanced techniques
- Use case patterns
- Best practices
"AI Engineering" by Chip Huyen
- ML system design
- Production ML
- Infrastructure
- Best practices
PHP Books
"Modern PHP" by Josh Lockhart
- Modern PHP practices
- Namespaces and traits
- Deployment
- Best practices
"Laravel: Up & Running" by Matt Stauffer
- Comprehensive Laravel guide
- Best practices
- Architecture patterns
- Real-world applications
"Domain-Driven Design in PHP"
- DDD principles
- PHP implementation
- Architecture patterns
- Real examples
Online Courses
- Laravel mastery
- PHP fundamentals
- Testing
- Design patterns
- Subscription: $15/month
- Interactive learning
- Command-line workshops
- Free and open-source
- Community-driven
- Laravel tutorials
- API development
- Real-world projects
- Subscription: $15/month
Useful GitHub Repositories
Awesome Lists
- Curated PHP packages
- Libraries and tools
- Resources
- Frameworks
- Laravel packages
- Resources
- Tutorials
- Starter projects
- LLM frameworks
- Integration patterns
- Use cases
- Examples
- Prompt examples
- Use cases
- Role prompts
- Creative prompts
Example Projects
- Complete chatbot implementation
- Conversation management
- Streaming responses
- Modern UI
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Vector search
- Document processing
- End-to-end example
- Agent orchestration
- Task delegation
- Tool use
- Complex workflows
API References
HTTP Status Codes
| Code | Meaning | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 200 | OK | Success |
| 400 | Bad Request | Check request format |
| 401 | Unauthorized | Check API key |
| 403 | Forbidden | Check permissions |
| 404 | Not Found | Check endpoint |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | Implement rate limiting |
| 500 | Server Error | Retry with backoff |
| 529 | Overloaded | Retry with longer delay |
Model Reference
| Model | Context | Best For | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| claude-opus-4-20250514 | 200K | Complex reasoning | $$$ |
| claude-sonnet-4-20250514 | 200K | Balanced tasks | $$ |
| claude-haiku-4-20250514 | 200K | Simple, fast | $ |
Token Limits
- Context window: 200,000 tokens (~150,000 words)
- Output max: 4,096 tokens
- Typical ratio: ~4 characters per token (English)
Quick Links
Essential Links
| Resource | URL |
|---|---|
| API Docs | docs.claude.com |
| Console | console.anthropic.com |
| Status | status.anthropic.com |
| Pricing | anthropic.com/pricing |
| PHP SDK | github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-php |
| Cookbook | github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook |
Support Channels
| Channel | Best For |
|---|---|
| Discord | Quick questions, community help |
| Forum | Discussions, feature requests |
| Billing, account issues | |
| GitHub | SDK bugs, feature requests |
| Status Page | Service status, incidents |
Stay Updated
Newsletter Subscriptions
- Anthropic Newsletter - Product updates and research
- Laravel News - Laravel ecosystem news
- PHP Weekly - PHP news and articles
RSS Feeds
- Anthropic Blog:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/rss - Laravel News:
https://laravel-news.com/feed - PHP.net Releases:
https://www.php.net/releases/feed.php
Podcasts
- Developer interviews
- Technology trends
- Open source discussions
- Laravel ecosystem
- Package reviews
- Community news
- PHP core development
- Upcoming features
- RFCs and proposals
Contributing to the Ecosystem
How to Contribute
Submit Examples to Cookbook:
bash
git clone https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook
cd anthropic-cookbook
# Add your example
git commit -m "Add PHP example for X"
# Submit PRContribute to PHP SDK:
- Report bugs
- Suggest features
- Submit PRs
- Improve documentation
Share Your Work:
- Blog about your implementations
- Create open-source packages
- Share code snippets
- Help others on Discord/forums
Package Development
Create a Claude Package:
bash
# Use Laravel package skeleton
composer create-project laravel/package my-claude-package
# Or PHP package skeleton
composer create-project php-pds/skeleton my-claude-packagePublishing to Packagist:
- Create composer.json
- Tag release on GitHub
- Submit to packagist.org
- Set up auto-updates
Conclusion
This resource guide is a living document. The Claude API and PHP ecosystem evolve rapidly, so bookmark this page and check back regularly for updates.
Next Steps:
- Join the Anthropic Discord
- Star the PHP SDK repository
- Build something amazing with Claude!
Quick Navigation
- ← Appendix A: API Reference - Complete API reference
- ← Appendix B: Prompting Patterns - Prompt templates
- ← Appendix C: Error Codes - Troubleshooting guide
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