New Scripts | PHP | Tutorials & Tips

This tutorial can give you an idea of how to center a text on an image using the GD Library. The script creates an image and centers a text on it.

This is a short tutorial that will give you an idea of how to create a Tag Cloud and implemented it the pages of your website.

This script is useful if you want to restrict the access to some people on your site, based on their IPs.

This is a simple tutorial about creating a simple web data fetcher that will fetch specific content from a URL.

This is a tutorial useful if you need to make a script that selects random image(s) from a folder.

This is a PHP Class useful if you need to resize images keeping their aspect ratio, using the GD Library. The new height is calculated proportionally to the new width’s size and reverse. For instance you have an image with the following dimensions: width – 1000, height – 800. Its thumbnail with a width of 250 will have the height of 200 (the ratio is kept).

This function is an alternative to str_ireplace() function in php5. It is useful when you need to call str_ireplace() function but you have php4 installed in your server. Put this function stri_replace() as a custom function in your code and do the same work as str_ireplace() does in PHP5

This tutorial will show you how to create a basic bad word filter in PHP.

MagpieRSS is a PHP library that can be used read various type of RSS Feeds. In this simple tutorial, I'll provide 2 example to read rss feeds from other website. The first example is to read the latest news from reuters website and the second example it to read weather information from MSN weather.

This article shows how to use regular expression and PHP to validate correct email id format. Sample code snippet is attched.

Create a backup script and execute the PHP script using a CRON job. This tutorial is for webmasters if the websites control panel has only capabilities to create full site backups and/or where the access via SSH is disabled.

On this three part tutorial we''ll go through the steps to install Apache,PHP and MySql on a machine with Windows Vista 32 bit

In this tutorial we'll go over some of the areas of PHP that need special attention to make sure your code protects against malicious attempts, from SQL Injection to the underestimated - XSS.

An article from a series of articles that I'm writing. This one is about the importance of proper coding style.

In this article, you will learn to write a dynamic plugin engine for your own project.

Someone wanted the exact same thing on codeproject.com a while ago but I didn't give much thought to it, until someone at work asked me how to do it - since he wasn't able to find a viable solution on the internet.

This script creates a PHP calendar of events that uses an overlib effect to indicate new events--Javascript must be enabled. The script main class myEventsCalendar.php allows you to add multiple events for each day in a year by calling a simple addEvent method. The calendar then shows a preview of the event in an overlib effect as well as a detail page for further information. For this calendar you are going to need a file to test the main class, and also include the required js. Finally, further modifications to the script are possible once you learn how to use the main class, e.g. adding features, integrating the script to a MySql database etc..

In this tutorial I will be showing step-by-step how to detect bots/crawlers with PHP. Bots or Crawlers, are basically search engines crawling around the internet. This is how you get your pages on search engines (well, a major way). Bot Detection isn't something super vital, but if your CMS or website already has practically everything, then you need Bot Detection.

If your website some how gets hacked and you lose all your MySQL Database information, I doubt you would be laughing� or smiling� That's why you need to backup your database from time to time so that you can put it back the way it was. Here is a simple script using PHP and MySQL to backup your database!

This tutorial will provide you with a basic concept for creating alternating row colors. Using while loops and generating a list from the mysql table.