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This article on "Installing Apache-MySQL-PHP on Windows 98" in just five min is a complete step by step tutorial to install this trio package. The article contains full graphics snapshots to help the new developers to install the trio package without any glitch or much effort. Happy developing !

Easy to follow tutorial explaining how to create yoru own error documents on an Apache server using a .htaccess file.

Learn how to create a layered web stats report generating script complete with dynamic graphs.

Nice little function that will generate a completely random password.

A function to change an email address or URL into a clickable HTML link using eregi_replace.

Make your PHP objects editable on the fly using web forms.

This is a guide to using and installing FastCGI, IIS and PHP. The recommended way to run stable PHP applications in IIS is CGI. But since a new process is created for each request and thrown away when the request is done, CGI efficiency is poor. Furthermore the PHP ISAPI dll was never stable enough for my needs, because ISAPI requires thread-safety, but many PHP extensions are not thread-safe.

A very easy tutorial with code included that shows you how to convert keyboard chars input to icon or image output. For instance how to make :) a smiley face.

BM's DeveloperWorks website has a nice tutorial on Midgard. Written by David Seager, a software engineer at IBM, the article describes setting up a basic Midgard site. The article also does a good job of setting up a general context for what Midgard is and how it works.

This online manual is meant to serve as a place to start for people not familiar with PHP. It covers the basics of variables, forms, sending email and MySQL databases.

On PHP DevCenter, Adam Trachtenberg and Joao Prado Maia have described interesting ways to localize web sites with PHP. In this article I've offered another alternative, which should be easy for non-programmers to use. We will take advantage of the user function setstring function.

The myPHPNuke Administrator's Manual is the complete guide and manual for webmasters, future webmasters, and wannabe webmasters. Learn how to install, configure and run a successful myPHPNuke based website. Included in the manual are hints, troubleshooting, theme creation, and tips on running a myPHPNuke based website. This is a full fledged manual of more than 100 pages.

A brief tutorial on how to determine the browser type of your user on load.

PHP is a very fast programming language, but there is more to optimizing PHP than just speed of code execution. This article explains why optimizing PHP involves many factors which are not code related, and why tuning PHP requires an understanding of how PHP performs in relation to all the other subsystems on your server, and then identifying bottlenecks caused by these subsystems and fixing them. It also covers how to tune and optimize your PHP scripts so they run even faster.

This tutorial will teach you the basics of auto generating your large image into condensed thumbnailed images using PHP. Complete code presented.

Step by step tutorial on how to display random quotes on your web page. This can also be used for displaying macromedia flash files as well.

This article will briefly describe how to compile PHP with ORACLE 8i support. The author writes "when i try to compile php with oracle support on Solaris 2.6 i got lots of problems. after tedious search in internet i have found solution. I have following configuration: ORACLE 8.1.6; PHP 4.0.6; Apache 1.3.19 (Already Installed)."

This article shows how to write a simple PHP script that parses the RSS file, extracts the pertinent information, formats it, and serves it up as regular HTML. This script can also be added to any PHP file. Source code available for download.

This 7-page article discusses how to make the web of services interact with one another using XML_RPC and PHP. Describes how to build a simple XML_RPC client and server to create a basic messaging system.

While a great part of the web is in English, if you are targeting a worldwide audience, then neither English nor Esperanto alone is an option. This article gives a brief overview on several different ways to deliver content in both English and Spanish, and a third language.