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Building Dynamic Pages With Search Engines in Mind
Almost any developer knows that search engine placement is critical to the success of a web site. What many people don't know is that a lot of search engines cannot index many database-driven pages (basically any page with a '?' or '&' in the URL)...
Building XML Trees With PHP
Need to manipulate XML document trees, but don't have the DOM extension compiled into your PHP build? Take a look at XMLTree, a PEAR class that allows you to create and manipulate XML document trees without requiring the PHP DOM extension...
Building XML Web Services with PHP NuSOAP
In this article, Ahm shows us how to build XML Web Services using PHP NuSOAP, as an alternative to Microsoft .NET or Sun J2EE...
Caching PHP Programs with PEAR
PHP scripts are compiled and HTML is generated each time a web page is requested. Sebastian Bergmann uses PEAR caching to store these dynamic requests and speed up PHP web sites...
Caching using Output Buffering
Recently, I was having a discussion with Stig Bakken, a core PHP developer. He introduced me to a newly implemented feature of PHP, output buffering...
Chapter 7. Variables
Variables in PHP are represented by a dollar sign followed by the name of the variable. The variable name is case-sensitive...
Classes and PHP
The hardest concept I've tried to understand since beginning to use PHP was that of classes. I'd never used a database engine but learning to use MySQL, at least for the more basic functions, was a breeze. Having never used OOP before, classes were novel...
Configuring PHP with ORACLE 8i Support
In this article, I will briefly describe how to compile PHP with ORACLE 8i support. When I tried to compile php with oracle support on Solaris 2.6, I received lots of problems. After tedious search on the internet, I have found a solution...
Control Structures Revisited
A look at two new variations of the if(), while(), and for() statements as well as an introduction to a completely new structure, switch()....
Converting XML into a PHP data structure
In the last few years, XML has received great media attention, and most languages support the parsing and extraction of data from XML documents. Besides being a great three-letter anacronym to sprinkle on your resumé, XML is actually a useful data storage...
Creating a Voting Poll With PHP And MySQL Part 2
In the first article of this two part series, I discussed how to create the database for our voting poll system. I also described how we would go about adding and delete poll questions using the managepoll.php file that was included with article one’s su...
Creating An Online Photo Album with PHP and GD: Part 1
This article is the first part of a four part series about saving money and space when it comes to showing off your pictures. Frank will be using PHP, MySQL and GD in this series...
Custom Error Messages When Using $PHP_SELF as Form Action
In Chapter 2, "Basic PHP Techniques" of PHP Essentials , I showed you how to send an feedback form using two files: an HTML file for the form and a PHP script for the form action. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the $PHP_SELF variable in a form...
Data Exchange With XML, WDDX And PHP
You may never have heard of it before - but if your job involves exchanging data between different servers and applications, you're going to be hearing a lot about it very soon. Find out how WDDX makes it possible to create and transmit platform-neutral d...
Database Abstraction With PHP
One of the nicest things about Perl - the DBI module - finally makes an appearance in PHP. Take a look at the PEAR database abstraction layer, by far one of the coolest PHP widgets out there...
Date/Time Processing with PHP
Like most programming languages, PHP comes with a fairly full-featured API for date and time value manipulation. You've probably used it in your applications, but never bothered to look too closely at it. Well, here's your chance to rectify that mistake -...
Develop a User Personalization System
Everyone has done it at one point in their life, even signed up for it and spent hours just staring at it...... but enough about Internet Porn Sites, I'm talking about User Personalization...
Develop rock-solid code in PHP: Part one
A series of tutorials intended for developers interested in building medium-to-large PHP based Web applications helping you solve practical, real-life problems. The first tutorial gives a high level perspective on what factors make good a Web application...
Develop rock-solid code in PHP: Part two
The Develop rock-solid code in PHP series is about solving practical, real-life problems in medium to large-scale Web applications. This article, the second in the series, deals with the effective use of variables...
Developing A Site Search Engine With PHP And MySQL
How many times have you visited a web site related to some topic that you're interested in and found that they don't have a search engine built into their site? Chances are that once you noticed this, you either hit the back button or closed your browser...
