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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.

This article explains how to create an interface to CyberCash in PHP, called CyberClass. A duplication of CyberCash's standard API, CyberClass is object-oriented and includes automatic configuration.

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.

PHP4 is packed with good features. One of the most popular is session variables. These are variables that persist throughout a session, as the user moves from page to page. Session variables are great holders of state information and other useful stuff. PHP4's session variables are stored in files by default. However for true scalability, it is better to store this data in a database using a database wrapper library like ADODB. ADODB supports Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, MSSQL, VFP, Access, ADO.

This article describes how to make Access and PHP work together using the ODBCSocketServer, an open source socket server, available at http://odbc.linuxave.net/. This tutorial will take you through configuring your machines and using the socket server.

For designer who use many html files for his/her site to specific browser, this is just a sample you can customise by yourself.

According to the cookie specification, any cookie set for one domain, must not be sent to any other domain. Therefore, if you set a cookie in your user's browser on one domain, that cookie will not be available on any other domain. This tutorial describes a solution to get around this issue.

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 setp-by-step article explains how to create a database-driven image uploading and display system in PHP. The example database used being MySQL, it also discusses possible modifications for MS SQL and Oracle. Some of the main topics include: Create database table with a field defined to hold binary data, Get your binary data into your table through a form-based file upload script, and Retrieve your binary data and display it to the user.

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.

With this Tutorial you'll learn how to use the PDF extension in PHP4 to create PDF documents. It also puts focus on creating PDF documents with data from 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.