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In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of PHP. ALso explained is a typical situation in which you can use PHP.

A collection of 19 tips on creating your own PHP functions. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on defining functions, defining arguments, passing references, returning references, argument default values, etc. Special topics are: How To Pass Variables By References? How Arrays Are Passed Through Arguments? How To Pass Arrays By References? How To Return an Array from a Function? What Is the Scope of a Variable Defined in a Function? How To Access a Global Variable inside a Function? How To Return a Reference from a Function? How To Specify Argument Default Values? How To Define a Function with Any Number of Arguments?

JavaScript is mainly used as a client side scripting language, while PHP is a server side technology. Unlike Java or ASP.Net, PHP doesn't have tools to make it work client side. That is why you need to combine JavaScript and PHP scripts to develop powerful web-applications.

The creation of a dynamic nested unordered list without using any JavaScript code is sometimes a problem because the script needs to "remember" the values, sub values and also the query string from previous clicked links. In this tutorial we will learn how to create a dynamic navigation menu powered by PHP and MySQL only. While using standard HTML elements (unordered lists) it�s easy to add different CSS styles later.

There are a lot of tutorials that show how to change an address like: 1. www.mysite.com/products.p hp?product_id=1234 into others like: 2. www.mysite.com/products/1 234 In this article we'd like to go one step forward and create something like: 3. www.mysite.com/easy-to-re member-product-name

This class can be used to resize images preserving the aspect ratio.It can open a JPEG, PNG or GIFimage and resize it in such way that neither the width nor the height exceed given size limits.The image is resized to preserve the original proportion between the width and height.The resized image is generated in the JPEG format overwriting the original image file.

You probably have a CMS or at least a blog script running on your website and to add articles, among other things, you fill out a form. If you've ever wondered how that translated over to a blog being added to a database and how it's verified, then you will want to read this tutorial. I'll go over the simple passing of data from form to adding it to the database and the different functions and variables that can be used.

This completely free script allows you to backup your complete server. It allows backing-up MySQL databases and files on your server. You can create backups, download them and delete them. It also includes a Cron job script that will make your life easier. You can easily create Cron jobs using this part of the script with no trouble. Free for both personal and for commercial use.

This is a simple function that returns state names and their abbreviations in an array. This is a very useful function that can save you loads of time when you have to make a us state drop down list for a form.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a basic and simple to use rating system. To make the script more simple and database independent we will use simple files to store rating information.

Before you can get content out of your MS SQL database, you must know how to establish a connection to MS SQL Server from inside a PHP script. This tutorial describes how to connect to MS SQL database with a DSN and without a DSN.

In this tutorial, you will learn to create the admin send mail form. It shows you how to use a loop to send the mail instead of simply separating the cc email addresses by commas. It also allows you to choose to send to everyone on the list, or send to only one specific recipient on the list.

In this tutorial I will show you how you can retrieve actual weather information from Yahoo Weather and display this information on your own site.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a very simple password protection for your web pages.

In a series of tutorials here at Insane Visions, we have shown some of the basics of PHP and continue it with how to enable visitors to search your site, using PHP. We'll take you step by step on a fairly simple search feature. From the actual form, to the results and several things you can do to make your search better.

One cool thing about php is that you can fairly easily validate users before displaying content on a page by page basis. Let's say you don't want to restrict the entire directory using htaccess, this is a neat alternative. This tutorial shows how to create a simple page-based login system using PHP and mySQL.

This tutorial tells people how to transfer multiple selections from a drop down menu using html and php.

Before you can get content out of your MySQL database, you must know how to establish a connection to MySQL from inside a PHP script. To perform basic queries from within MySQL is very easy. This article will show you how to get up and running.

A in-depth tutorial was added today on how to build a simple linear message board in php/mysql. It includes all the files and code and provides explanations on how the mechanics work for a basic forum.

A three part tutorial on creating a simple PHP & MySQL based guestbook. Part 1 covers creating the table to store the message. Part 2 - Creating the form and adding the information into the database. Part 3 - Fetching the messages from the database and displaying them on your page