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This is a full chapter from the recently published book 'Building Online Communities with phpBB'. Covering chapter 4 'Customizing Your Forum'. The quality of this article is extremely high class with in depth descriptions and diagrams. View it in HTML for your enjoyment.

Keep track of existing staff and increase new staff hiring efficiency with Staffing Software.

This is a script usefull mostly to server admins, which will automatically detect all your mysql databases and backup/compress them.

Network Monitoring, Critical To the Success of Every Enterprise, monitor every sever on your network, even link between nodes in your network. Network Monitoring is a Impressive addition to any enterprises success. Sample code, and network resources provided.

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A complete tutorial that covers installation, setup and testing of Apache 1.3.33, PHP 5.02 and mySQL 4.0.23 on windows2000 pro. The guide is also known to work for XP, and should work with lower versions of windows, too. There's a user comment area so if you have any problems I'll try to give help where I can.

After having worked through this tutorial you will be able to: * know how the additional phpMyAdmin features using special seperate tables work and how to set them up * store pictures inside a MySQL table and view them from within phpMyAdmin * put specific transformations on any of your columns * create your own transformations, even with active PHP-code in it! * create PDF pages of your table layout, with relations and individually positioned ER-models At the end of this tutorial there's also some hints on getting the most out of your phpMyAdmin config file, showing you some configuration directives which seem to get less public attention.

Nowadays, PHP programmers generally use databases such as MySQL to do everything, however, every programmer should at least know the basics of reading and writing to files - that IS what a database does. Come read an all you need to know introduction to file handling.

A collection of 19 tips on understanding and using sessions in PHP. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on starting and closing sessions, saving and retrieving values in sessions, deciding how session IDs to be transferred, deciding where to store session files, deciding when to expire session values, etc. Topics included in this collections: What Is a Session? How To Turn On the Session Support? How To Save/Retrieve Values to the Current Session? What Is a Session ID? How To Retrieve the Session ID of the Current Session? What Are the Options to Transfer Session IDs? How Session IDs Are Transferred on Your Web Server? How To Force the PHP Engine to Use Cookies to Transfer Session IDs? Is It More Secure to Use Cookies to Transfer Session IDs? Where Are the Session Values Stored? What Set the Timeout Period on Session Values? How To Remove Values Saved in the Current Session? How To Tell If a Session Is New? What Is session_register()?

This setp-by-step article explains how to create a database-driven image uploading and display system in PHP. The example database used being MySQL, it also discusses possible modifications for MS SQL and Oracle. Some of the main topics include: Create database table with a field defined to hold binary data, Get your binary data into your table through a form-based file upload script, and Retrieve your binary data and display it to the user.

This article focuses on the document that can be generated using PHP namely Rich Text Format (RTF). Rich Text Format (RTF) is a file type used to transfer formatted text documents between applications, even those that run on different platforms, such as IBM and Macintosh. RTF is a file format that many word processing programs understand; it is often used when a document is created in one word processing program but is expected to be edited in another word processing program.

In this article I will show you how to use PHP regular expressions in your own PHP scripts.

This tutorial shows you how to create an interactive image maps using PHP and the GD library. It explains a method to zoom a portion of an image by using PHP and gif files.

This page walks through the setup of Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Red Hat Linux system. The installation is very similar on other Linux distributions. Apache, PHP and MySQL all also run on Windows NT, however installation is definitely different for those systems.

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. This article is split into three pages: Setting up the database, Creating the 'upload' scripts, and Creating the 'download' script. Includes the complete source code for all the scripts involved.

A simple snippet of php code to insert in your custom 404 error page. It will send an e-mail when a visitor encounters a 404 page and certain conditions are met. The tutorial explains how the script works and where to insert the code.

A collection of 21 tips on working with MySQL database. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on connecting and selecting MySQL database, creating and dropping tables, inserting, updating, and deleting rows, selecting and looping through data rows, searching by key words, setting auto-increment IDs.

Many registration forms request registrants' birth dates. This function allows you to use that information to determine a person's age. This is useful when determining whether COPPA requires parental consent (if the user is under 13).

In this tutorial I will show you how you can easy check META information of any website. It can be very useful in search engine optimization when you want to check your competitors settings.

An example of command line non-interactive PHP script which creates bucket and uploads file to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). Additional libraries like HMAC-SHA1 are not required.