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This is a short tutorial to help people understand how to easily install phpNuke. There are some issues that would arise on installation and this article is trying to explain them.

The Google Adsense administration section gives you some superficial stats. Want more detail? You gotta track hits yourself. This tutorial will teach you how to track the ads that have been clicked; the pages they were clicked on; and which visitors have been doing the clicking!

The basic use of single and double quoted strings in PHP, which to use when and the general difference between the two.

This is a step-by-step guide to installing PHP3 for Apache on Windows 9x. These instructions assume that you installed Apache for Windows 9x as outlined here. They should work with any standard Apache installation.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.