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How to Install and Configure PHP4 and the Zend Optimizer on Windows
There's been tremendous interest in the PHP articles on thesitewizard.com, and one question that I seem to be getting more often these days is whether the procedure for installing PHP4 is similar to that which I outlined in my article on how to install an...
How To Install PHP on Linux
So, you're ready to take the big plunge and set up your first dynamic Web site -- and naturally, PHP is your choice. This quick introduction will get your Linux box up and running with PHP in no time...
How to store binary files in a MySQL database.
This article is aimed at answering one of the most asked questions on the PHP mailing list and discussion forums alike: How to store binary files in a MySQL database...
How to use the PEAR ITX templating system
In this tutorial, I'll explain and demonstrate how to use the ITX templating system from the PEAR collection of useful classes for PHP. As we go along, I'll show you some of the competitors, why I didn't like them and why in the end I choose to work with...
Implementing a Template Based Web Site With PHP
A common requirement when designing a site is the ability to update the layout and HTML of the site without having to change the look and feel of every page on your web site. Template based web sites allow you to produce dynamic web content and give your...
Implementing Ad Support Into Your Site With PHPAdsNew
One of the great things about open source repositories such as SourceForge is the huge amount of quality software that talented developers from all around the world produce. SourceForge is a dream come true for web developers looking for quality free we...
Installing PHP under BadBlue Web Server
Your production machine might have PHP installed on an Apache server in a Linux environment, but most of the people (like me) will develop and test their code on a Windows machine before they move their work on to the production machine. Working on this...
Installing PHP Under Xitami
In this article, Jayesh guides us through the installation of the Xitami web server and the PHP interpreter...
Introduction to Functions: Part 2
John Coggeshall tackles some of the more difficult topics dealing with functions, including variable scope, static variables, and return values...
Introduction to Regular Expressions
If you think of cartoon language when you see a string like ^[grmbl]f{23}$, this is a good time to introduce yourself to regular expressions. A web developer's job can get quite a bit easier with this powerful tool for searching and replacing...
Introduction to Socket Programming with PHP
Are you one of those sorry souls who has desperately tried to learn network programming in C, but never had the stamina to tame the wild beast? I was for a long time until I finally decided that I had to learn it -- not only for my own satisfaction, but b...
Learning PHP: Installing and Configuring
Before you can begin programming with PHP, you must first install and configure it on your system. In this second article of the Learning PHP series, Liz Fulghum teaches you how...
Learning PHP: Storing Basic Information
Basic information is stored using variables and data types. In this continuing tutorial, the focus is on teaching you the basic structure of PHP and how it handles variables and data types...
Learning PHP: The What's and the Why's
Tired of being limited by client-side Web development? Liz Fulghum begins a series of articles to teach you PHP. In this first article in the series, learn what PHP is and why you'd want to use it...
Learning to Use Regular Expressions by Example
This site I'm working on relies heavily on user input through forms, and all that data needs to be checked before being sent a database. I knew PHP3's regular expression functions should solve my problem, but I didn't know how to form the regular expressi...
Logging with PHP
In this article, Tim shows us how to log hits on all of your web sites. They can even be on separate servers around the world...
Make Your Own Cool Drop Down Ad's
"The age of the banner ad is dead" shouts a self-proclaimed online marketer. "Banner ads represent a bad return on investment" writes another. The truth of the matter is that banner ad's aren't dead, my friend. Traditional banner ads are receiving lower c...
Making forms object-oriented
One of the most common tasks that I came across developing interactive websites was processing users' input. In this article, I would like to share the experience I had developing an object-oriented solution for it...
Making PDFs with PHP, PDQ
Using Adobe's PDF format and some PHP, you can dynamically generate PDF files and serve them via the Web. Paul gives you the deets...
Making PHP Applications Cache-Friendly
With a rather small number of new postings, it is obvious that Phorum and its underlying DBMS (in our case, PostgreSQL) have to repeatedly generate lots of identical responses to identical queries. This is a waste of bandwidth and server load and makes br...
Making PHP Forms Object-Oriented
In this article Yuri explains an object oriented way to create and use forms on your web site....
Mini Shopping Basket with only PHP4 Sessions
If you haven't done your own shopping basket with PHP yet, you should be able to build one after reading this article. Even if you have a basket already, some of the tips I provide here could help you improve your system...
My FTP Wrapper Class for PHP
In this article Mitchell shares his FTP wrapper class which he has written in PHP. It includes error checking and many useful functions...
MySQL and PHP
First, I would like to note that this is a complete rewrite of our old MySQL and PHP tutorial by Steven Herring. First, I would like to thank Steven for assisting so long ago with the tutorial...