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An article from a series of articles that I'm writing. This one is about the importance of proper coding style.

Security should be a top concern throughout the development of any PHP web application. There are some very simple measures you can take to protect your application from potential abuse. This post will cover some of the basics of PHP security.

This tutorial will show you how to import csv data into MYSQL with a simple PHP script. Many times you have to write a script because the import function in phpMyAdmin will not import the way you want.

This tutorial shows you how to make a site database-driven, but still indexable by search engines. It also explains how to create a site to be co-brandable whose look-and-feel are dependent on which "affiliate" site was being accessed.

First of all try to collect the necessary information which are important to display the actual month and highlight the actual day. Besides this we want to display the actual month and year informations as well. To do this we need 3 special days informations: 1. The actual day 2. The first day of the actual month 3. The last day of the actual month

Here we are going to design simple image based hit counter to keep track of visitor. We are going to keep record in a text file so we do need any kind of database. We are going to keep whole record in counter.txt file. In the same directory where you putting the PHP file for this counter, create a file 'counter.txt' and CHMOD it to 0777. Initially put 0 in it and save the file. As this counter is image based we are putting our Image in "imgs" folder.

Learn how to create a website design templating system using php to be able to easily update different sections on your website by changing only few design files. The tutorial is designed for total beginners, so it is easy to understand and follow. Whether you have a small or a huge website, you know how much hassle and time it takes to upgrade your web site pages. The upgrade process becomes even more irritating when you make a change that needs to be upgraded on every page of your website; a good example of such a change is adding a button to the header or changing the copy right information in the footer of your website. In this tutorial I will show you how PHP comes to the rescue with only few lines of code. You can use this tutorial to be the basis to make your website easier to maintain and upgrade.

This is a script usefull mostly to server admins, which will automatically detect all your mysql databases and backup/compress them.

In this article I will show you how to use PHP regular expressions in your own PHP scripts.

This article focuses on the document that can be generated using PHP namely Rich Text Format (RTF). Rich Text Format (RTF) is a file type used to transfer formatted text documents between applications, even those that run on different platforms, such as IBM and Macintosh. RTF is a file format that many word processing programs understand; it is often used when a document is created in one word processing program but is expected to be edited in another word processing program.

This script first tries to find the meta tags including the description, title and keywords of a web page and if it does not get any, it will extract the content using the Curl library and the iconv function which takes into consideration the different charset. There is a live demo.

It is common to have downloads on your website, and sometimes you want to moderate your downloads by speed, or possibly hide the directory that the download is coming from, protecting all your other files. This is very possible and very simple to solve in PHP. All you need is the header() function and some files function.

This tutorial shows you how to use PHP to make a quick, simple and effective IMAP or POP mail reader. The tutorial includes 3 short PHP scripts that allows you to access and read your email from anywhere in the world via your web browser.

This tutorial will show you how to rotate an image in your PHP scripts. You'll need to have the GD library installed to be able to use some of the functions we use in this guide, though this is included with most PHP installations so there's a chance you'll have it.

This article contains PHP function ae_bar_html for generating HTML/CSS based one-column bar charts. It is suitable for simple diagrams and does not require libgd.

A simple 2 file, 2-part tutorial about how to upload a picture of .gif or .jpg format and how to store that photo in a folder and also make a thumbnail of that picture.

Contains useful arguments (from, to, subject, text) and protection from malformed headers. Also, there is a simple mail form example.

An easy tutorial to learn the fundamental basics of PHP. The tutorial starts with a little history about PHP and how to install your home server. After that it quickly moves on to PHP syntax, variables, loops, if-statement, arrays and much more. It contains many examples to give aid during learning.

PHP has a function setcookie since version 3.0, but this function is too low-level for simple usage. Function ae_put_cookie provided, sets cookie for current domain without specifying long arguments lists. Just three arguments: 'name', 'value', session cookie flag/number of days/forever cookie flag

ListMaster is system that allows for bulk e-mailing. It's an easy way to keep in touch with your current customers to let them know about the things that are going on in your business. It's especially useful when used to keep you ahead of your competition. ListMaster provides the ability to send HTML newsletters without knowing HTML. Anyone who can use a word processor can effectively use ListMaster!