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Providing a simple contact form could be a big security issue if the form script doesn't have any validation or security features. In the past it was very common to use simple mail scripts to post a web form to some e-mail address. A lot of the spam getting people in their mail box is send with vulnerable form mail scripts. These tutorial will show you how to create a simple mail form using Ajax and PHPMailer.

How to calculate the difference between two dates in PHP.

PHP 5 includes a powerful set of DOM manipulation classes that gives you full control over HTML and XML documents. This functionality behaves very similar to JavaScript's DOM manipulation engine. In this tutorial, we'll explore the DOMDocument class by generating an entire HTML5 page without writing a single bit of raw markup. This may not be practical for most applications, but it should give you a good idea of how the basic DOMDocument methods work.

1.Creating Database Tables 2.Introduction to the Header/Footer System 3.Getting Ready for Action 4.Displaying the Forum Overview 5.Signing up a User 6.Adding Authentication and User Levels 7.Creating a Category 8.Adding Categories to index.php 9.Creating a Topic 10.Category View 11.Topic View 12.Adding a Reply

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.

Using Paypal IPN, you can verify sales and order to your digital products like ebook or software. You can use PHP to create a simple script that will communicate with Paypal IPN to do that. And depending on the result of the "communication", you can later serve or deny access to your product. This simple tutorial will show you how Paypal IPN works and demonstrate a simple Paypal IPN handler that you can use. You'll be using PHP to create your IPN handler.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple menu system with 2 levels. You can easy integrate it into your site to get a nice and easy editable site navigation system.

Worried about bots? Then create CAPTCHA images to prevent bots from taking advantage of your site. You may be wondering what a CAPTCHA image is. Here's a brief synopsis from Wikipedia: A captcha (an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart") is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. Captchas are used to prevent bots from using various types of computing services. Applications include preventing bots from taking part in online polls, registering for free email accounts (which may then be used to send spam), and, more recently, preventing bot-generated spam by requiring that the (unrecognized) sender pass a captcha test before the email message is delivered.

Learn how to upload images easy using forms and PHP. Great for beginners.

Tutorial on how to build a login system with PHP factory pattern including source codes and explanation

This is the easiest tutorial on how to rotate images by random. Code included.

This is a very simple guestbook tutorial consisting of how to write an html form, get the form to insert data in mysql and then displaying the form with a basic mysql query. The result is a simple guestbook which just displays the name and a comment of the visitor.

So, you want to send automated email messages from your PHP application. This can be in direct response to a user's action, such as signing up for your site, or a recurring event at a set time, such as a monthly newsletter. Sometimes email contains file attachments, both plain text and HTML portions, and so on. To understand how to send each variation that may exist on an email, we will start with the simple example and move to the more complicated.

In this tutorial I will show you how to divide your code into more files and how to include various files into your actual PHP code.

This script allows you to make a simple banner rotating script that you can easily modify and display on your site. It's basically a copy and paste job :)

This example shows how to use AJAX to implement a basic chat system on a website. It refreshes the chat transcript using AJAX to maintain a constantly updated view of the chat session.

This tutorial discusses how to create an RSS feed from a database blog.

This tutorial will explain how to create a dynamic calendar from scratch in PHP. There are two functions that will greatly simplify the process: mktime and getdate. The function mktime gets a Unix timestamp from the supplied arguments hour, minute, second, month, day, and year (each defaulting to the current). The function getdate is the opposite, turning a timestamp into an array of date information. See the manual pages (linked) for more information on these functions. Using these functions, it is fairly easy to gather all the information needed to create a dynamic calendar.

How to send an email from within a PHP page using the built in mail() function.

One of the keys to running a good website, is allowing your visitors to contact you when they have a question or comment on your website. Yet, in this day of email harvesting and spam, how do you allow your website visitors to contact you, without exposing yourself to a deluge of unwanted vi*gra ads? The answer? Use a form mailer! Click the link to read more about form processing scripts and how you can easily use them on your site. We also have an excellent form mailer that you could use on YOUR site.