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One of the things that all programmers love is to write a program which writes another program. On the web we have two different programming environments: the client (browser) and the server. Due to the HTTP protocol definition we can write a program on the server which writes another program to be executed on the client. Let's pick PHP (of course) for the server and JavaScript for the client. We'll show you in this article how you can use this scheme to store data in the client and then minimize the data transfered between the server and the browser for interactive applications like a chat room, a news system or whatever you want.

The author notes "The Java extension is an extremely exciting tool. By learning how to use this module, you can extend PHP by the power of all available Java classes. To show you the basics of the Java extension, this article will cover installation and a few code examples of using PHP and Java together."

While a great part of the web is in English, if you are targeting a worldwide audience, then neither English nor Esperanto alone is an option. This article gives a brief overview on several different ways to deliver content in both English and Spanish, and a third language.

binarycloud is a platform for rapidly developing complex web applications. It includes basic services like authentication, permissions, a template engine, database abstraction etc., an extensive collection of libraries, and a framework for configuring the system and building your own logic. This tutorial step-by-step explains how to install it in details.

A brief tutorial on how to determine the browser type of your user on load.

The myPHPNuke Administrator's Manual is the complete guide and manual for webmasters, future webmasters, and wannabe webmasters. Learn how to install, configure and run a successful myPHPNuke based website. Included in the manual are hints, troubleshooting, theme creation, and tips on running a myPHPNuke based website. This is a full fledged manual of more than 100 pages.

On PHP DevCenter, Adam Trachtenberg and Joao Prado Maia have described interesting ways to localize web sites with PHP. In this article I've offered another alternative, which should be easy for non-programmers to use. We will take advantage of the user function setstring function.

A very easy tutorial with code included that shows you how to convert keyboard chars input to icon or image output. For instance how to make :) a smiley face.

A function to change an email address or URL into a clickable HTML link using eregi_replace.

Easy to follow tutorial explaining how to create yoru own error documents on an Apache server using a .htaccess file.

A small code sample that will count through the sentences in a section of text and show how many words are contained within it.

If you use a form on your site then you'll know that user input can often have white space before or after the text as the person filling in the form field sometimes accidentally adds spaces. This handy function will remove the whitespace from the beginning or end of the string.

Make all your webpages search engine friendly by converting them to *.htm files. (Requires mod_rewrite on your server.) Touches upon regular expressions.

Learn how to turn 050309112684 into 09/03/05 11:26:48 using the substr() function in php.

Need to generate style sheets dynamically with PHP to keep presentaion logic together or create environment aware style sheets with PHP and JavaScript? This tutorial shows you how!

Do you have a script that takes a while to process? Wanna start outputting before the entire script finishes processing? Learn how to use PHP output buffering functions and have them actually work! Don't make your visitors wait for a long script to process.

The source code for a function that will calculate a specified URL's Google PageRank is provided. Also included: some background info on PageRank and an example of the function's use.

Learn how to parse bulletin board code to translate it into HTML. This tutorial will provide the code to convert the [img], [url], [b], & [code] tags.

This PEAR tutorial will teach you how to use PEAR's Finest Templating engine: HTML_Template_Sigma

PEAR's HTML_CSS is a CSS Generator which can be used in combination with HTML_Page. This tutorial teaches you how to use HTML_CSS.