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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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

This article provides extensive instructions on installing PHP on Apache/Linux. Main topics include: How to Get PHP, PHP Extensions, Building PHP for CGI Use, Building PHP as an Apache Module, Building mod_php as a Dynamically Loaded Object, Testing Your Installation, Going Further/In Conclusion, Building Apache at Lightspeed, Apache Source Components Provided by Linux Distributions, and Fixing Red Hat 6.1's apxs Script.

This article focuses on the switch from Visual Basic to PHP. Several examples are presented.

Here, you will find tips on how to work around some common problems that may occur when inserting PHP code within pages on Microsoft Front Page.

This tutorial shows the steps you need to install and configure PHP on Windows. It explains two different ways: Using PHP without Apache, and Using PHP with Apache.

One of the things that all programmers love is to write a program which writes another program. On the web we have two different programming environments: the client (browser) and the server. Due to the HTTP protocol definition we can write a program on the server which writes another program to be executed on the client. Let's pick PHP (of course) for the server and JavaScript for the client. We'll show you in this article how you can use this scheme to store data in the client and then minimize the data transfered between the server and the browser for interactive applications like a chat room, a news system or whatever you want.

ODBC is one of Microsoft's earliest technologies for connecting to databases. This article describes how to setup and use ODBC from a PHP perspective. Also discusses ODBC extension bugs, database wrapper libraries, Microsoft's ADO (which is Microsoft's recommended API for 4GL programmers) and DSN-less connections.

The built-in COM functionality of PHP4 is quite attractive for some of us programming in the win32 environment. So far, there is not much documentation on the subject. This short article will explain how to use COM in real PHP4 programming with three examples using MS office 2000 Word and Excel programs and the Adobe Distiller program.

PHP has built in functionality for dealing with HTML forms. This tutorial shows you how to tap into these powerful features.

Many devs using MySQL have fallen in love with PHP. Jason Gilmore explains why they're the perfect couple. This is ore of an introductory article on PHP and MySQL covering such topics as features of PHP and MySQL, and how to use PHP to interact with 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.

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.