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This article contains an example of simple php "xslt engine" for XML driven web-sites which implements caching techniques and Apache-based XML file processing.

In this howto you're gonna learn how you can escape HTML characters, nice and easy using PHP. This is useful for example to prevent users enter malicious HTML or javascript code into your site using the public forms like guestbooks or message boards. Also this can be useful if you want to embed code into your page without being translated by browsers into HTML elements corresponding. Our site also offers an Online Escape HTML Characters Tool!

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for examining and modifying text. They enable you to search for patterns within a string, extracting matches flexibly and precisely. This tutorial gives a brief overview of basic regular expression syntax and then considers the functions that PHP provides for working with regular expressions.

This tutorial will show you how to make a double opt-in email list with activation. It will also show you how to delete emails and send emails to the list.

This package can be used to save and restore objects in session variables. It can register a list of one or more classes objects that are intended to be saved. The classes must implement the SessionObject interface. The class can call all the registered classes to save and restore the state of the session objects.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple count down system.

As is necessary for any language, PHP has a complete set of directory support functions. PHP gives you a variety of functions to read and manipulate directories and directory entries. Like other file-related parts of PHP, the functions are similar to the C functions that accomplish the same tasks, with some simplifications. This tutorial describes how PHP handles directories. You will look at how to create, remove, and read them.

This tutorial will describe how to create thumbnail images on the fly using PHP. Furthermore you will learn how to process a whole folder of images and create their thumbnails. Since this requires the GD library, you will need an installation of PHP with at least GD 2.0.1 enabled.

Sometimes it can be useful to have a dump of the current database schema. This script reads the schema from a MySQL database and outputs XML that describes the schema.

This tutorial will show you how to create dynamic thumbnails from websites using the thumbnail service Girafa.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a file on your web server using your browser. We will create a html form which will be store the file during the form processing mechanism.

Utilise PHP includes on your website to make changes in design and navigation much easier. Also features a cool way to make your own 'image viewer'.

Here's how to team up two of the most popular and powerful platforms for web development together. With the php-java bridge you can build classes and jar files in Java and call them and use their methods in PHP. Use the quick and easy PHP language to bring Java muscle to your web pages.

In this tutorial we'll learn how to install phpLD (pho Link Directory), the free version, from downloading the script to the last settings to make it work.

Modern web-applications often provide (during registration, or password-reset) random-generated passwords for its users. However these passwords (usually a random combination of letters or numbers) are quite hard to remember: in fact, it's even impossible to read them. This article provides a function for generating English-like readable passwords.

This is a simple tutorial that shows you how to make information or images(in this case buttons) display in a specific number columns per row when extracted from a mySQL database using a query, using a specific algorithem and loop.

So, you've mastered HTML and JavaScript. I guess the next stage is PHP! Don't worry. It isn't too hard. This tutorial is great for learning PHP right from the beginning teaching you all the basics to help you advance quickly on to more advanced concepts.

This article provides two functions for converting HTML color (like #AAED43) to three RGB values ($r = 170, $g = 237, $b = 67) and converting RGB values to HTML color.

Spam is a major problem. As spam filters become more effective the spam changes to evade prompting the spam filters to again step up their aggressiveness. In this escalating battle it is all too easy for legitimate email to be filtered out in error. If you have ever had to deal with a complaint from a customer who never received their activation email, only to find it in their spam folder then you are familiar with the problem. No single approach is going to ensure that all your mail gets through but one quick and easy thing you should be doing is checking the black lists and make sure you are not on them. In this tutorial I go through creating a script which will automatically and periodically check the black lists for you. Once set up you can just leave it and rest a little more secure.

This PHP tutorial helps you understand: Basic rules of handling non ASCII characters; Example PHP scripts of French/Chinese strings in UTF-8/GB2312 encoding.