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PHP has a built-in function to easily fetch meta tags from php or html pages called the get_meta_tags function. It will take all the meta tags and build associative arrays with the name of the associative array being the meta name and value of the associative array being the contents of the meta tag. This tutorial shows how to fetch all the meta tags for a given page and print them to the browser. Then, it can be used to build a search engine that compares the contents of the meta variable to the search_criteria and displays the matching link.

In this tutorial I will show you how to work with sessions in PHP. You will learn how to transfer information over multiple pages.

This simple tutorial explains how to create images on the fly using PHP. It presents a simple code which you can use with a TTF font on your site.

Here you will find a set of training notes summarizing the differences between VBScript, JScript and PHP. Also covers ASP objects and their PHP equivalents. Good for converting ASP programmers to PHP. In 3 parts.

By keeping track of how many people visit your website, you can get some idea of how to improve your website as the hits start to increase. Adding a basic PHP text counter is quite easy and we will take you through each step. Tutorial and full script to download and implement on your website.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple file upload system with your user can upload a file from the local computer to your web server. As you will see it is not so complicated to implement this very useful script.

A counter is an essential part of a site to know how many people are coming to site. Here is an easy way to make a counter. All you need is access to PHP and be able to chmod a directory. We�re going to save the amount of hits in a .dat file, so you don�t even need a mySQL database. First off, you have create a directory and CHMOD it 777 so PHP can write the counter.dat file.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a form mail system in PHP. Explains how to use form fields and redirection for (un)successful submissions.

Here, you will learn how to create an MS Access database and interface with it using PHP on Windows platform. Main topics include: Creating an Access database, Setting up an ODBC Connection, and Interfacing with database.

This is the second part of creating Web-based admin user interface. This tutorial covers adding and deleting users via Web form using a MySQL database.

Serverize! is the "insta-thought-up" name for a tutorial that will guide you step by step on turning your windows machine into a full blown server. Install Apache, PHP, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin and Perl.

Other tutorials here may focus on getting a specific task done, but at the core of any language is syntax that must be learned and understood if you are ever to progress in it. This is what I hope to explain to you about the PHP language.

100% fool-proof (as far as I can tell). Prevent hotlinking to files not supported by .htaccess. For instance, I use this method to prevent people from linking to *.SWF files stored on my server.

A general introduction to PHP, what it is, some benefits it has, how to output text to your pages, setting variables and a little more.

A collection of 23 tips on understanding and managing cookies in PHP. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on setting and receiving cookies, creating and removing persistent cookies, specifying domain and path to restrict cookies, finding cookies in cookie files, cookie limitations: How To Send and receive a Cookie to the Browser? How To Set a Persistent Cookie? How To Remove a Cookie? How To Specify Domain and Path for a Cookie? How Cookies Are Transported from Servers to Browsers? How To View Cookie Header Lines? Where Are the Persistent Cookies Stored on Your Computer? How To View the Content of a Cookie File? How Many Cookies Can You Set? How Large Can a Single Cookie Be? How Are Cookies Encoded During Transportation? How Can Other Webmaster Steal Your Cookies? ......

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a PHP application to display directory content (filename, file size, modification date) and navigate between them.

Were going to be creating it in a function, so that we can re-use this wherever we need to. This particular function saves the thumbnail file to a directory on the server, you could actually skip saving the file and just print out the image itself if you would prefer to do that.

Built-in PHP library gd does not have ready-to-use function for photo(jpeg) thumbnail generation. Although there are many such examples on the net, they are usually not suitable for effective generating series of thumbnails (for ex. 240x240, 140x140, 80x80). This article provides php function thumbnail_generator and trivial image uploading script, which generates series of thumbnails.

An introduction to the PHP include function and example an of how to use this to create a template base for your website.

This is a basic PHP tutorial available for everyone and anyone who wants to read it. It covers: Variables, Comments, Output, Strings, Operators, If...Else, Switch, Arrays, While Loop, For Loop, Foreach Loop, Do While Loop, Include and Require, PHP/HTML Forms and the POST and GET methods. HTML knowledge is not necessary, but HTML is included in some examples in the code, specifically the form part.