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PHP for Beginners by a Beginner: Simple Login, Logout, and Session Handling In this article, James presents a very simple way to add login/logout security in PHP using session handling...

2 Quick PHP Tips Are you a sloppy coder? Do you unwittingly reduce the performance of your own code? Clean up your act with these two great PHP tips - David shows us how...

7 Reasons Why PHP is Better than ASP I think ASP is a good and useful technology, but in the long run I believe PHP will prove superior -- both technically and in popularity. There are seven reasons why I think so...

A Detailed Look at PEAR Joao Prado Maia sheds some light on some advanced coding techniques in PEAR, and teaches you how to read the PEAR source code...

A Simple Sessions Tutorial This tutorial is not meant to be a complete coverage of sessions by far, and I'm sure that there are many other questions not answered here...

A tiny .htaccess tutorial This is mostly a "stick this in your application" tutorial. The file only does two things, and only on Apache servers, and I explained them as simply as I could. But they offer HUGE functionality for web developers, so take the time to read about it...

A Tutorial on Porting MySQL code to other Databases using ADODB In PHP every database is accessed slightly differently. To connect to MySQL, you would use mysql_connect(); when you decide to upgrade to Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, you would use ocilogon() or mssql_connect() respectively...

Accessing COM Objects In PHP The Component Object Model (COM) is a Microsoft specific architecture that allows developers to use a variety of programming languages to create libraries of self-contained, language neutral objects, which can be instantiated through code...

Accessing PostgreSQL from PHP Creating Web-based interfaces that interact with PostgreSQL? This sample chapter from 'Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL' explains how to access PostgreSQL from PHP...

Adding PHP to Apache on Linux In the last year, the PHP scripting language has become one of the most essential tools for building content-rich Web sites on the Internet. In his debut column, Apache pioneer Ken Coar explains how to integrate PHP with an Apache Web server on a Linux sy...

Advanced email in PHP Kev leaves no stone unturned as he explores the obscure features and untapped capabilities of PHP's mail functions, sending HTML email, mixed messages, and file attachments with PHP...

Alternating row colors tutorial Sometimes, when we work with tables, we probably want to change the color for every row (<td>). There are probably many ways to do this, but I will describe the most simple of it - %...

Alternating row colors with PHP and mySQL A quick tutorial explaining how to alternate table row colors using PHP and mySQL. ...

An intro to using the GD image library with PHP A brief introduction to the world of image manipulation in PHP using the GD library. In this tutorial I will step you through creating a clock that will display the current time...

An Introduction to Functions Functions allow you to re-use code to repeatedly perform a procedure. John Coggeshall introduces PHP functions...

An Introduction to PEAR There are dozens of reasons why programming languages such as C++ and Perl are extremely popular and have millions of dedicated developers all over the world...