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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.

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 2-page tutorial walks you through compiling and installing PHP on a Unix system.

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.

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).

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.

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 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.

PEAR's DB classes are one of the database abstraction layers. This article takes a look at some traditional database access methods and then compare them with the method employed by PEAR.

This 4-page article will explain how to use PHP output controlling functions to make your pages load faster.

In this part four of a series on HTML form handling with PHP, it explains how to create a powerful PHP form handler, called Phorm Manager. Topics include: Design goals, Internal data management, form validation, and more. Full source code available.

This article describes how to create a generic form processor in PHP. Discussion involves form elements, hidden fields, and more. Also covers the installation process of NuSphere MySQL, an integrated multi-platform distribution of Apache, Perl, PHP, and MySQL.

While a great part of the web is in English, if you are targeting a worldwide audience, then neither English nor Esperanto alone is an option. This article gives a brief overview on several different ways to deliver content in both English and Spanish, and a third language.

binarycloud is a platform for rapidly developing complex web applications. It includes basic services like authentication, permissions, a template engine, database abstraction etc., an extensive collection of libraries, and a framework for configuring the system and building your own logic. This tutorial step-by-step explains how to install it in details.

This 7-page article discusses how to make the web of services interact with one another using XML_RPC and PHP. Describes how to build a simple XML_RPC client and server to create a basic messaging system.

This article shows how to write a simple PHP script that parses the RSS file, extracts the pertinent information, formats it, and serves it up as regular HTML. This script can also be added to any PHP file. Source code available for download.

This article will briefly describe how to compile PHP with ORACLE 8i support. The author writes "when i try to compile php with oracle support on Solaris 2.6 i got lots of problems. after tedious search in internet i have found solution. I have following configuration: ORACLE 8.1.6; PHP 4.0.6; Apache 1.3.19 (Already Installed)."

This tutorial will teach you the basics of auto generating your large image into condensed thumbnailed images using PHP. Complete code presented.