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PHP Shell PHP Shell is a shell executed within a webpage - almost. There are certain limits, but you get at close as you can get to having a telnet-connection to your webserver in a webpage. You can read more about PHP Shell here...

PHP Syntax PHP has the full complement of operators, and they work just as you'd expect them to--especially if you come from a background of C or C++...

PHP's Encryption Functionality Encryption and hashing allow you to secure and verify data. W. J. Gilmore introduces encryption functions and hashing methods available to PHP...

PHP--HTML Templates: A New Working Relationship In order to place the data into the nicely-designed HTML pages, we either get the designers to embed our PHP codes in appropriate locations in their designs and remind them to remember to name their pages as ".php" before they publish or we (pro...

PHP-Based User Authentication This tutorial teaches you how to initiate user authentication using PHP, and then to authenticate users by matching the value of global variables and to a list of valid usernames and passwords. The sample code included with this tutorial will show you how...

PHP-Select This Tutorial will show you how to select info out of the database using PHP and display it in a HTML select pull down menu...

PHP/Mysql radio button This tutorial will show you how to use php to select infomation from the database and place it in a Radio button for your users to select from...

PHP/MySQL Tutorial Overview Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL. According to Graeme, PHP and MySQL are the world's best combination for creating data-driven sites...

PHP4 Installation Overview The long-awaited official release of PHP4 finally hit the streets in May, signalling a new era in server-side programming: a speedy, stable, customizable, "all hail open source" era...

Plugging RDF Content Into Your Web Site With PHP A Web site which dynamically updates itself with the latest news and information? Nope, it's not as far-fetched as it sounds. As this article demonstrates, all you need is a little imagination, a couple of free RDF files and some PHP glue...

Professional PHP4 Programming Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This first installment looks at LDAP components, applica...

Professional PHP4 Programming - Part 2 Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This weeks installment discusses Installing and Configur...

Professional PHP4 Programming - Part 3 Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This weeks installment discusses "A Sample LDAP Applicat...

Professional PHP4 Programming - Part 4 Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This weeks installment discusses The XML Framework, SML,...

Professional PHP4 Programming - Part 5 Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This weeks installment takes a look at reading an XML fi...

Professional PHP4 Programming - Part 7 Someone is always going to ask the hard question, "What is the best way of working with XML using PHP?". That is a difficult question to answer. The final installment shows you a few different ways...

Professional PHP4 Programming: Part 6 Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This week we will break down and look at the different a...

Quick E-Commerce with PHP and PayPal This article gives a great insight into developing a small website that incorporates your own shopping cart or a third-party cart in conjunction with PayPal...

Recursive Threading with PHP and MySQL One of the most demanded and sought-after techniques in PHP today is the need for recursive programming; specifically, recursive threading. In this article you will learn how to write a simple message board using recursive threading. A previous knowledge...

Resizing Images with PHP and Mogrify Our consulting division had been approached by a economic development organization who wanted us to build a website. One of the desired features of the site was a system that allowed their staff to upload member company logos to be displayed on the front...

Saving Resources with PHPCache Is server overload setting you back? Chris explains phpCache - a great script that lightens your load and speeds up your site...

Scratching the Surface: Getting Started with PHP Fusebox Originally designed for ColdFusion, Fusebox is a methodology for designing web-applications with extensibility and ease of maintenance that is now available for PHP...

Search Engine-Friendly URLs Is your database-driven site being indexed properly by the search engines? Because of the appearance of the query string in their URLs, many aren't! Chris provides three solutions to the problem....

Secure Programming in PHP Thomas Oertli discusses the common threats and challenges of programming secure PHP applications and practical methods for doing so...

Securing file uploads under PHP Uploads in php are very easy to implement, but they're a little bit insecure. This is not something with php and it can be fixed in 10 lines, but you have to be aware. Without this, any file accessible by the HTTPD can be viewed (read: /etc/passwd, .htpa...

Securing Servers with PHP Did you ever think about using PHP as a tool for increasing network security? It's much easier to write socket code in PHP than in C, for example. This article by Maguma software developer Jim Barcelona shows how to create a simple yet effective port scan...

Security and Sessions in PHP Learn how to secure your PHP pages swiftly using a simple include file that should be included at the top of every page. Read more...

Sending Mail With PHP3 Server scripting languages like Lasso and Java servlets make sending mail so complicated that you'd rather avoid it at all costs. Until recently, I have been relying on a cheap (read "free") perl script from cgi-resources.com, but I want to be able to do...

Sending MIME email in PHP Tired of sending those drab textual notifications and newsletters to your friend and clients? Ever wanted to send attachments and/or HTML embedded email. The answer is MIME. The ensuing few pages explain the basics of MIME ...

Session Handling with PHP 4.0 One of the most often requested features for PHP was support for session management. Tobias Ratschiller looks at PHP 4.0's powerful session API; by example, he shows you how to use it and how to set up your own storage modules...

Setting Up An Automated Content Feed From Your Web Site So, you've spent the best part of a year creating your PHP/MySQL driven web site. You've got a fair amount of decent, flexible content, and you're buddies with a couple of other webmasters, so they've given you a free banner ad on their site in exchange f...

Simple Connection to Informix While not the most frequently-used database type by PHP programmers, there must be one or two out there who use Informix, else the built-in functions wouldn't exist. While there are numerous functions for PHP to Informix connectivity, documented in detail...

Simple linear regression with PHP: Part 1 A missing, but powerful, tool in the PHP arena is a language-based math library. In this two-part series, Paul Meagher hopes to inspire PHP developers to develop and implement a PHP-based math library by providing you with an example of how a library of a...

Site Navigation with PHP You may already know that PHP is a great language for making database-driven sites. But what else can you do with it...

Slapping together a search engine for your database is easy with PHP and MySQL So you've got a dynamic site, filled with all sorts of user inputs, whether it be a 'phorum', or like my own site at knowpost.com. ht://dig will take care of indexing and searching your html pages, but if you are like me, you have very few html pages, and...