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Do you have a script that takes a while to process? Wanna start outputting before the entire script finishes processing? Learn how to use PHP output buffering functions and have them actually work! Don't make your visitors wait for a long script to process.

This code enables you to display a random quote on yout website, from a list you define. All you need is a a single php file and your webpage.

This tutorial will teach you how to deal with special characters like HTML tags, white space etc. from a user submitted form and database output.

This tutorial will show you how to add your page load time to your PHP pages. It includes code that is able to be copy and pasted for easy assembly.

This tutorial tell you how to create a file upload script on your server using php, javascript. The code is available for free.

Need to generate style sheets dynamically with PHP to keep presentaion logic together or create environment aware style sheets with PHP and JavaScript? This tutorial shows you how!

Learn how to turn 050309112684 into 09/03/05 11:26:48 using the substr() function in php.

Make all your webpages search engine friendly by converting them to *.htm files. (Requires mod_rewrite on your server.) Touches upon regular expressions.

Doing it with class in PHP. What is a data structure? What is a class? How are classes used in PHP? All these questions and more are answered in this tutorial.

Learn the fundamentals of session variables, and some popular uses for them. Also, touches upon random password generation.

A contact form or an email form is often a critical part of a website, in allowing users to contact you regarding one or more issues. This article aims to help you produce a secure contact form, and at the same time, try to reduce the amount of spam you will receive from it.

It's painful, but possible. With PHP and the PHP-GTK module, you can build your own gui executable files. This is a guide that directs to the right GTK tutorials and functioning PHP compiling software. Includes code for a working model.

Server side includes are frequently used to give your entire site the same look and feel, as well as allowing you to produce more modular code. Join Peter as he explains this, and shows you how!

Ever wanted to redirect users using PHP? Using HTTP headers? Conditionally? Peter explains all this and more, in order to help improve your site and coding.

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Allows you to make expandable menus with PHP. This versions allows multiple menus to be opened / closed, click one menu to open - click another to open the other - click the first or the second to close it, you can open as many or as few as you like and are not forced to close it again. PAGE MUST BE RELOADED (PHP isnt Javascript).

Alternating row colors is a very good way to make big tables more ergonomic and esthetic. Script and explanation here. Also explains the modulus operator.

It covers all the basic in neat and clean manner. Its recommended for beginner and those that have just passed the beginners mark. Also good for those who want to brush up on the basics. Its intent was to make PHP welcoming for the beginners and not to make the whole intro sound too technical...

Easily make a quick random choice between two options. This php script works by seeing if the current server time seconds is even or odd. The code snippet also extends the basic principle to let you flip a 3-sided coin (for choosing among 3 options). Use this for deciding banners, style sheets or any random choice between a very limited number of options.

A small code sample that will count through the sentences in a section of text and show how many words are contained within it.