Most Popular Scripts | PHP | Tutorials & Tips

binarycloud is a platform for rapidly developing complex web applications. It includes basic services like authentication, permissions, a template engine, database abstraction etc., an extensive collection of libraries, and a framework for configuring the system and building your own logic. This tutorial step-by-step explains how to install it in details.

In this part four of a series on HTML form handling with PHP, it explains how to create a powerful PHP form handler, called Phorm Manager. Topics include: Design goals, Internal data management, form validation, and more. Full source code available.

This article describes how to create a generic form processor in PHP. Discussion involves form elements, hidden fields, and more. Also covers the installation process of NuSphere MySQL, an integrated multi-platform distribution of Apache, Perl, PHP, and MySQL.

This 4-page article will explain how to use PHP output controlling functions to make your pages load faster.

PEAR's DB classes are one of the database abstraction layers. This article takes a look at some traditional database access methods and then compare them with the method employed by PEAR.

This article addresses two SQL-related issues in PHP: 1) Creating complex, powerful, queries to take advantage of your table schemas, and 2) Building those queries on the fly according to user input.

This article by Tim Perdue at PHPBuilder.com offers helpful guide to some of the best practices in PHP coding style. Topics covered: Indenting, Control Structures, Function Calls, Using Comments, PHP Tags, and Strings.

This six-page tutorial explains how to parse xml using DOM, an alternative to the popular Expat. Covers the objects used in DOM extensively, and offers a few simple and long examples.

The author notes "The Java extension is an extremely exciting tool. By learning how to use this module, you can extend PHP by the power of all available Java classes. To show you the basics of the Java extension, this article will cover installation and a few code examples of using PHP and Java together."

This is a comprehensive tutorial on how the graphics capabilities of PHP can be used to create simple bar charts in GIF and PNG format. Each example includes a graphical chart along with source code.

In this Part 2 of the article "Building Next/Prev Buttons for Query Results," you will be shown a sample code designed to work in most instances (with minor changes).

In this continuation of the article, "Logging With PHP," the author explains how to build a PHP/MySQL-driven Web traffic logging and analysis system that can be continually updated, which provides information on what content was being viewed, browser and platforms stats, and trends over time. This system is currently being used on SourceForge.net.

This 2-page tutorial walks you through compiling and installing PHP on a Unix system.

Templates can bring order and structure to a web site. This article describes how templates can be used to control the page layout for a site that is currently composed of many pages of static HTML, using a popular template class and a new feature of PHP4.

This 6-page article explains how to create an extension to PHPLIB to work with multiple databases. You may find this article helps you extend PHPLIB in other ways. Read this article to the end and then think about situations where PHPLIB performs 98% of what you want.

This article discusses three basic steps that can be taken to avoid creating bad code: ensuring that you can trust your input by verifying the input you receive from users, manipulating that input data carefully, and providing the appropriate people with secure, reliable access to that data.

Isn't it great to go to a web site and it appears as though it was designed just for you. This 3-page article will help you design a web site which makes visitors feel like it was designed just for them using PHP and MySQL.

This article, along with source code, explains how to parse XML documents using XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations). XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents or HTML documents. It does not discuss XML, XSL or XSLT syntax, but rather focuses on how to transform XML documents with XSLT using the Sablotron XSLT processor. Source code available for download.

PHP has built in functionality for dealing with HTML forms. This tutorial shows you how to tap into these powerful features.

Many devs using MySQL have fallen in love with PHP. Jason Gilmore explains why they're the perfect couple. This is ore of an introductory article on PHP and MySQL covering such topics as features of PHP and MySQL, and how to use PHP to interact with MySQL.