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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.

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

User Personalization is a must-know and must-have for any site thats wants to make it somewhere. It customizes the user's experience, causing them to just plain 'like' your site better. Learn the basics of making such as system in PHP.

In this tutorial you will learn how to generate random numbers using PHP. It illustrates three helpful examples that uses random numbers: Generating a random number between 0 and 9, Simple slots script that generates multiple random numbers, and random text link ads.

This article explains how to perform basic CRUD operations on a datavase using the included DataContext class. It shows how to insert/update and query data.

OK guys, this script is a simple file based counter. This is meant for sites that do not run a db and instead, use a file and a cookie. It isn't the best I've seen but it's simple. Consider this as a tutorial. Just create a file called counter.txt and put this where you want to display the counter. Remember to set the permissions on counter.txt so that your webserver can write to the file.

When validating dates in PHP you can either do it the hard way, by spending some time putting together a regular expression, or the easy way, by using a predefined function.

This article focuses on user authentication and some best practices to use when building a secure login environment for members of an application. Our goal here is not to simply allow users to login and access members only content and/or features – we can do this very easily by setting some session data after checking the username & password entered exist in the database. We want to expand on this. We want it to be as secure as we can make it, and for it to be useful to us as administrators too – we want to see who has logged in and when for example.

A collection of 18 FAQs on connecting to MS SQL Server with PHP scripts. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on SQL Server connection; providing port number; selecting database; running SQL statements; checking execution errors; looping through query result; looping through result fields.

A guide to creating a basic script for allowing users to upload images to your website.

In this tutorial I will show you how you can create an object oriented database abstraction class for MySQL database. Besides the basic functions this manager class can summarize total time spent with db connection and query execution and counts how many query were executed during your PHP script.

Learn how to perform simple task with files: open, read and write. Check the different commands you may use. Learn to use compressed files (.gz) to save time. An example is included to record IPs and referrers of our page.

Structures_DataGrid and DB_DataObject are two PEAR components, which can be connected together, to easily display the data contained in a SQL table, and let the user sort and page through it. With minimal typing, this tutorial shows you how you can bypass the usual steps of parsing GET parameters, performing SQL requests, and generating HTML content.

This comment scirpt uses MySQL and can be used for unique pages. The tutorial guides you through the process, step by step.

Create dynamic images with the GD library. Tutorial shows you how to create a little man holding a sign that displays various messages (such a visitor's IP address and user-inputted text).

A tutorial dedicated to PHP arrays and how to use them as queues, lists, sorters, etc. It uses easy to follow, executable examples to help you learn these intermediate array techniques.

This will calculate and show how many days there are from the current date to a date in the future that you define.

This beginners example shows how to display a random image on a web page from an entry in a text file.

This article describes how to connect and query an MS SQL server (running under a Windows operating system) from php installed on a unix box.

how to make unlimited dynamic sub-categories in multiple forms