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This particular design of web-based chat uses variables posted from a form, processes them into HTML and writes them to a file. Put the form and the message file in a frameset and you have something that looks reasonably like a BeSeen chat room. Of course the advantage is, this chat room can be a little more clever than it's BeSeen cousin.

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.

One of the new great features with PHP4 is the session management feature. It allows you to store variables in a session 'object' during a user visit. This article discusses what a session and a session variable are, and what it can do.

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.

PHP has the ability to upload files such as documents or images using the multipart/form-data protocol, but how do you use this and how do you resize the images after they are uploaded to create thumbnails or image repository, etc. This tutorial along with full source code shows you how.

This page walks through the setup of Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Red Hat Linux system. The installation is very similar on other Linux distributions. Apache, PHP and MySQL all also run on Windows NT, however installation is definitely different for those systems.

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 is a step-by-step guide to installing PHP3 for Apache on Windows 9x. These instructions assume that you installed Apache for Windows 9x as outlined here. They should work with any standard Apache installation.

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.

Here, you will learn how to create an MS Access database and interface with it using PHP on Windows platform. Main topics include: Creating an Access database, Setting up an ODBC Connection, and Interfacing with database.

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.

User Personalization is a must-know and must-have for any site thats wants to make it somewhere. It customizes the user's experience, causing them to just plain 'like' your site better. Learn the basics of making such as system in PHP.

This tutorial shows you how to dynamically compile the list of files in a given directory. You can then conduct keyword searches on the compiled list for finding matching files.