IFWiki

I'm studying PHP right now as well and for a group project we are talking about creating a PHP "text adventure"/"interactive fiction" game. Remember Zork? Here's a site I found that should help us out considerably:

http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

Calling itself The Programmer's Resource, this site was recommended for looking up specifications of various types of files including graphics, 3D graphics, movies/animations, binaries etc...

http://www.wotsit.org

Blogception

This blog I will use to keep track of information and links concerning OpenGL and other video game development related topics. For starters, here are some links to my Instructors blog on exactly this same topic. He has many useful links concerning OpenGL installation and implementation among other things...

http://nateopengl.blogspot.com/

http://nateopengl.blogspot.com/2009/07/opengl-setup.html

Here's a tutorial on installing SDL with Visual C++ 2008.

http://www.meandmark.com/sdlvisualc.pdf