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Take this crash course on PHP, and see how it could be a smart alternative to using CGI to add interactivity to your site.

This article describes how to make Access and PHP work together using the ODBCSocketServer, an open source socket server, available at http://odbc.linuxave.net/. This tutorial will take you through configuring your machines and using the socket server.

This article will attempt to demonstrate how to connect to an LDAP server using PHP. Specifically, the example given will connect to a public LDAP server and perform searches. This example closely mimics the way Netscape� Communicator 4.* uses its address book to connect to LDAP resources.

This is a tutorial that will show you how to create the simplest banner rotate system. The images are stored in a folder and are randomly displayed.

A collection of 12 tips on uploading files with PHP pages. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on creating file upload HTML tags, setting encoding type on HTML forms, getting uploaded file information, storing uploaded file in database.

In this tutorial you will learn how to migrate "Access data to MySQL". It is very important for ASP TO PHP Comers. Enjoy It!

PHP usually comes with mysql extension mysql (mysql_... functions) which is rather low-level and requires writing too much code for a trivial tasks: error-checked execution of SQL queries, getting single row from SQL table, getting value from SQL table cell, etc. OOP mysqli extension isn't any better. In this article we present 5 useful functions which greatly simplify majority of real-life MySQL operations.

This script shows an example of a counter being incremented every time the page is loaded. This is achieved by reading a file line by line using the fgets function and exctracting the 2 fields (one for the date one for the counter). The file is then being updated. There is a live example.

A collection of 14 tutorials on Apache and PHP installation and configuration covering: How to download and install Apache 2.x and PHP 5; How to start Apache server; How to publish HTML documents; How to set PATH variable for PHP; How to create php.ini; How to configure Apache to use PHP as CGI; etc.

This is the simple example to list contents of any Directory. To do this we are going to define function DirDisply( ) which will read the current directory contents and display it as a list. We first open current directory by $TrackDir=opendir("."); The opendir function returns a directory handle resource on success, or FALSE on failure. Syntax is: opendir ( string path [, resource context] ) Where: Path - The directory path that is to be opened Context - For a description of the context parameter, refer to the streams section of the php manual.

When you build a form in your web page, you are susceptible to being spamed by automated systems. In order to make sure that the one who completes the form is human, you can use the system with image verification.

Basic guide to help experience HTML webmaster getting started with PHP. It defines PHP, contrast it agains HTML, and provided a few simple examples. The tutorial also briefly cover how to set up Apache and PHP on your own server.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a PHP script to check whether the actual domain name is available or not.

This will enable you to add a login prompt that authenticates a user before he can see a page. No need to modify your code or pages. Simply download a file, and add a single line at the top of the page you want to add a login to. Any feedback is appreciated.

This is a PHP and MySQL tutorial. With code examples like uploading files to database, creating guestbook, contact form, Content Management System (CMS), User Authentication etc.

A snippet that helps you download files from the web, with the use of the well known cURL library for php

Nice and Clean Tutorial to install Apache, PHP, MySQL on Windows Computers in 8 Steps. After installing every component, a test is made to check if you properly installed the component. Download links are given of all Apache, PHP and MySQL. In the end is a script to test MySQL installation with PHP and MySQL.

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

An easy tutorial to learn the fundamental basics of PHP. The tutorial starts with a little history about PHP and how to install your home server. After that it quickly moves on to PHP syntax, variables, loops, if-statement, arrays and much more. It contains many examples to give aid during learning.

Contains useful arguments (from, to, subject, text) and protection from malformed headers. Also, there is a simple mail form example.