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The built-in COM functionality of PHP4 is quite attractive for some of us programming in the win32 environment. So far, there is not much documentation on the subject. This short article will explain how to use COM in real PHP4 programming with three examples using MS office 2000 Word and Excel programs and the Adobe Distiller program.

ODBC is one of Microsoft's earliest technologies for connecting to databases. This article describes how to setup and use ODBC from a PHP perspective. Also discusses ODBC extension bugs, database wrapper libraries, Microsoft's ADO (which is Microsoft's recommended API for 4GL programmers) and DSN-less connections.

One of the things that all programmers love is to write a program which writes another program. On the web we have two different programming environments: the client (browser) and the server. Due to the HTTP protocol definition we can write a program on the server which writes another program to be executed on the client. Let's pick PHP (of course) for the server and JavaScript for the client. We'll show you in this article how you can use this scheme to store data in the client and then minimize the data transfered between the server and the browser for interactive applications like a chat room, a news system or whatever you want.

This tutorial shows the steps you need to install and configure PHP on Windows. It explains two different ways: Using PHP without Apache, and Using PHP with Apache.

Here, you will find tips on how to work around some common problems that may occur when inserting PHP code within pages on Microsoft Front Page.

This article provides extensive instructions on installing PHP on Apache/Linux. Main topics include: How to Get PHP, PHP Extensions, Building PHP for CGI Use, Building PHP as an Apache Module, Building mod_php as a Dynamically Loaded Object, Testing Your Installation, Going Further/In Conclusion, Building Apache at Lightspeed, Apache Source Components Provided by Linux Distributions, and Fixing Red Hat 6.1's apxs Script.

This article focuses on the switch from Visual Basic to PHP. Several examples are presented.

What if you could script remote procedure calls between web sites as easily as you can between programs? This tutorial shows how it can be done in PHP.

Templates let you completely separate your PHP code from the HTML, which makes the HTML graphic designers very happy and keeps them from messing up your precious programming. This tutorial explains how to use PHPLIB Template in your PHP scripts. Main topics include: Using PHPLIB Template, Nested Templates, and Appending Template Text.

This document describes how to customize the session handlers in PHP4. It provides examples of how to write a fully functional session handler that works with DBM files and one that works with a MySQL database.

This article covers several useful topics on PHP programming from basics to working with database. Main topics include: mod_php - Hello World, PHP Programming, Maintaining State on a Single Page, Maintaining State Between Multiple Pages, PHP Data Enabled App Using PostgreSQL, and Installing phplib in a Postgres Environment.

This article explains how to install PHP 3.x.x for IIS 4.x on Windows NT. These instructions assume that you have a standard IIS 4 installation on Windows NT.

This document describes how to install PHP for Apache on Linux. It was written using Red Hat 6.1, Apache 1.3.9 and PHP 4 Beta 2. You should have Apache installed before trying to install PHP.

This 4-page tutorial guides you through step-by-step how to pass arrays and using checkboxes/select boxes in PHP.

This tutorial will show how you can store the data via the HTML forms "File" feature in your MySQL database and how you can access and use this data in your webproject.

This article talks about a technique for debugging CGI programs written with the PHP scripting language. Topics include: Creating the Debug Class, Testing the Debug Class, Using the Debug Class, Production Debugging, and more.

PHP is a freely available, HTML-embedded scripting language that lets you embed special tags to create your script right in an HTML file. PHP can be integrated into the Web server itself, eliminating the need to start up a separate CGI program to generate the Web page, which can lead to dramatic performance increases on some systems. This article describes how PHP came into existence, introduces some PHP basics, then shares some useful, instructive scripts to get you started.

This tutorial explains how to identify IE4+ or NS4+ on a windows 32 bit platform (all else is "OtherBrowser") and include different html Web pages for different browser types using PHP.

This is documentation for installing Apache 1.3.9, PHP 3.011, Perl 5.00502 and MySQL 3.21.29, but should work with ANY recent (or more recent) versions of this software. It also includes links for all the required modules and programs.

Shows how to calculate an average of ratings example, given the accumulated total of all ratings and the total number of votes.