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This is a guide that explains how to install and configure PHP 5.2 on Vista and IIS7.Following these easy steps you will be able to have PHP running on Vista 32 bits in 15 minutes.And keeping all the PHP files in the same directory. Try now,you are very welcome.

The service includes two code pages: the first one allows to register the last visit of users to the website, and the second one allows data registration and showing number of active/online visitors in a period of time defined by the webmaster. No databases are used, and data is saved to files within a user defined folder. The activity of users is recorded to individual files (one empty file per users). The name of each file is the IP address of the users, and the last modification time of the file is used as reference for last visit of the user. When counting the number of active users, Filesystem Functions are used to check the files: old files are deleted and newer ones are accounted as active users.

how to make unlimited dynamic sub-categories in multiple forms

This is a simple example of photo-gallery script, which uses MySQL table (BLOB field) to store images. Trivial password-protection, uploading and deleting images are supported. For Apache-version of PHP there is advanced browser-caching support (using If-Modified-Since header).

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple AD rotator script without using database. The script can display both text and image ads and you can control the number of ads to be displayed at once.

Easily code dynamic PHP Select Lists. Tutorial with code snippets and comments.

A Brief introduction in how to use MySQL, Great tutorial for beginners.

the goal of this tutorial is to give the reader an idea of how to construct a basic/dynamic image gallery from start to finish, not to imply that this is the only way, or even the best way to build a gallery; just a simple approach without all the bells and whistles. at the time of writing, this tutorial assumes a version of PHP >= 4.3 and GD 2.

This tutorial will allow you to have a basic file upload interface with a PHP backend. This tutorial is only for educational purposes and the final PHP file upload script is not robust nor secure enough for a commercial solution.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple mail sender class in PHP. Sending emails with PHP is a lot easier than you would think, however you need to care about some settings to avoid moving your emails into a spam folder.

In this PHP MySQL tutorial I will show you how to use basic database manipulation features in PHP.

This tutorial shows you how to make a site database-driven, but still indexable by search engines. It also explains how to create a site to be co-brandable whose look-and-feel are dependent on which "affiliate" site was being accessed.

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..

A tutorial with code snipple included that tells you how to generate links with URLs such as index.php?ID=5 and such. Very easy to follow.

Everyone who likes MS HTML Help (.chm extension) can now obtain complete conversion of MySQL manual into this format. This conversion tries to bring additional functionality and make using of MySQL manual more comfortable.

PHP, the PHP Hypertext Processor, is an open source server-side scripting language for Web servers, which provides a real alternative to ASP, ColdFusion, Mod_Perl or JSP if your aim is to provide dynamic Web pages. Dynamic Web pages are pages which interact with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customized information - which may vary each time and which may be based on a form they've just filled in, or on information extracted from a database or some other external source. Typical applications include e-commerce, online newspapers, visitors' books, ticketing systems, project management, and other groupware projects. The traditional way to produce this type of dynamic page is via CGI scripts, but these are separate programs which must be executed as a new process for each page hit, so they scale badly and rapidly become memory and processor hogs as server load increases...

Learn how to open, retrieve, enter, and change data within an Excel tab-delimited file. It's easier than you think!

A collection of 21 tips on process Web forms with PHP scripts. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on generating and processing Web forms, getting values out of $_REQUEST, processing multiple choices, removing slashes, adding multiple submit buttons, adding hidden values, processing original query string: How To Retrieve the Submitted Form Data? How To List All Values of Submitted Fields? How To Retrieve Input Values for Checkboxes Properly? How To Remove Slashes on Submitted Input Values? How To Support Multiple Submit Buttons? How To Support Hidden Form Fields? How To Retrieve the Original Query String? How To Protect Special Characters in Query String? ...

In this quick tutorial I am going to show you guys how to login to a website using cURL extension in PHP. Here is two different tutorials that will help you understand this tutorials. Please have a look at them before you proceed.

This tutorial is specially written for PHP newbies who need to start writing PHP. It contains link to installing PHP for beginners too.