Working with PHP datatypes by Steve Adcock 4/17/04
PHP is an incredible language (and free!). This article introduces the basics of the PHP language by examining datatytes available in the language. more...
Random banner rotation in PHP by Steve Adcock 4/17/04
Have you ever visited a web site where, each time you refresh the page, the banner changes? In this article, we will take a look at how someone like you can implement this feature using PHP. more...
Generating javascript code on-the-fly with PHP to validate forms by Dani Berg 3/29/04
Form validation via javascript is much easier for users than returning them error messages made by PHP after the form is submitted. The problem is that javascript don't have access to the server. Sometimes you need information stored on the server to validate a field. In this article you see how you can use PHP to generate javascrit code on the fly and turn the client-side life easier. more...
Your First Step into Web Development by Mudassar Saeed Khan 1/29/04
A beginner's guide to this vast field of web development. After reading this article, reader should be able to grab a good bird's eye view of web development. It touches all the main aspects of basic and advance web development in an understandable form for everyone. more...
Logging with PHP by Tim Perdue 1/18/04
Figuring out where your hits are coming from and which pages are being viewed is not too difficult if you use a good log analyzer like Analog or something similar, but if you want to pull up reports on the fly at any time, you need to take a different route. more...
Incoming Mail and PHP by Gijs van Tulder 1/17/04
We all know how to send email from PHP. Actually, it's quite easy: mail("to@me", "Hello", "Hello"); Handling mail the other way, sending email to PHP is a task much more unknown. In this article, we will write and install a script that we can send an email to. more...
PHP frontend to ImageMagick by Gijs van Tulder 1/17/04
In this article, we will write a script to connect ImageMagick to PHP. You can then generate thumbnails and other versions of your images on-the-fly, by just editing the url. more...
Using PEAR's mimeDecode module by Gijs van Tulder 1/17/04
In this article, we will explore the mimeDecode module of PEAR to see how we can easily decode MIME email. more...
PHP Browser Detection and Appropriate CSS Generation by Tim Perdue 1/15/04
Whoever said CSS would solve all your cross-platform browser display issues needs to lay off the pipe a little. I have yet to get CSS to work perfectly across all browsers / platforms, but I have gotten it to work "good enough" to get by. I did it by more...