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Step by step tutorial on how to display random quotes on your web page. This can also be used for displaying macromedia flash files as well.

PHP is a very fast programming language, but there is more to optimizing PHP than just speed of code execution. This article explains why optimizing PHP involves many factors which are not code related, and why tuning PHP requires an understanding of how PHP performs in relation to all the other subsystems on your server, and then identifying bottlenecks caused by these subsystems and fixing them. It also covers how to tune and optimize your PHP scripts so they run even faster.

A brief tutorial on how to determine the browser type of your user on load.

The myPHPNuke Administrator's Manual is the complete guide and manual for webmasters, future webmasters, and wannabe webmasters. Learn how to install, configure and run a successful myPHPNuke based website. Included in the manual are hints, troubleshooting, theme creation, and tips on running a myPHPNuke based website. This is a full fledged manual of more than 100 pages.

This online manual is meant to serve as a place to start for people not familiar with PHP. It covers the basics of variables, forms, sending email and MySQL databases.

On PHP DevCenter, Adam Trachtenberg and Joao Prado Maia have described interesting ways to localize web sites with PHP. In this article I've offered another alternative, which should be easy for non-programmers to use. We will take advantage of the user function setstring function.

BM's DeveloperWorks website has a nice tutorial on Midgard. Written by David Seager, a software engineer at IBM, the article describes setting up a basic Midgard site. The article also does a good job of setting up a general context for what Midgard is and how it works.

A very easy tutorial with code included that shows you how to convert keyboard chars input to icon or image output. For instance how to make :) a smiley face.

This is a guide to using and installing FastCGI, IIS and PHP. The recommended way to run stable PHP applications in IIS is CGI. But since a new process is created for each request and thrown away when the request is done, CGI efficiency is poor. Furthermore the PHP ISAPI dll was never stable enough for my needs, because ISAPI requires thread-safety, but many PHP extensions are not thread-safe.

Make your PHP objects editable on the fly using web forms.

Learn how to create a layered web stats report generating script complete with dynamic graphs.

Nice little function that will generate a completely random password.

A function to change an email address or URL into a clickable HTML link using eregi_replace.

Easy to follow tutorial explaining how to create yoru own error documents on an Apache server using a .htaccess file.

This article on "Installing Apache-MySQL-PHP on Windows 98" in just five min is a complete step by step tutorial to install this trio package. The article contains full graphics snapshots to help the new developers to install the trio package without any glitch or much effort. Happy developing !

A small code sample that will count through the sentences in a section of text and show how many words are contained within it.

If you use a form on your site then you'll know that user input can often have white space before or after the text as the person filling in the form field sometimes accidentally adds spaces. This handy function will remove the whitespace from the beginning or end of the string.

Easily make a quick random choice between two options. This php script works by seeing if the current server time seconds is even or odd. The code snippet also extends the basic principle to let you flip a 3-sided coin (for choosing among 3 options). Use this for deciding banners, style sheets or any random choice between a very limited number of options.

It covers all the basic in neat and clean manner. Its recommended for beginner and those that have just passed the beginners mark. Also good for those who want to brush up on the basics. Its intent was to make PHP welcoming for the beginners and not to make the whole intro sound too technical...

Alternating row colors is a very good way to make big tables more ergonomic and esthetic. Script and explanation here. Also explains the modulus operator.