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PEAR's HTML_CSS is a CSS Generator which can be used in combination with HTML_Page. This tutorial teaches you how to use HTML_CSS.

Learn the basics of using Object Oriented Programming in PHP to build and extend a class to make a website.

This is a Basic Introduction to PHP, from explaining what PHP is and does to creating your very first script!

An introduction to variables in PHP and how to use them.

This is a small tutorial detailing how to connect to mySQL. It is easy to follow and can be pulled right of the site. Ideal for newcomers to PHP that want to look at connecting to databases.

If you want to seperate PHP from HTML, you need some kind of template engine. vlibTemplate is a template engine. vlibDate easily adds and substract date values. You can format date values in different languages (german, english, french, spanish and so on). All examples are written in english. The tutorials are written in german and english. The tutorial will teach you how to use template variables, blocks and loop structures. It will give a short example of modular programming. Some simple and more complicated examples are provided. You will learn how to use vlibTemplate with MySQL, too.

This tutorial will explain the basics of core databases in SQL without complicating with mySQL. Will show you the how to create and view databases in the system and how to create and run sql scripts in the monitor and phpMyAdmin further tutorials will go into the basics of tables following with advanced tutorials.

This tutorial will take you through both the IF and the IF-Else statement by comparing numbers, although relativly simple you can expand on them so that you can run checks on various things, such as passwords.

Tutorial that explains how to allow your users to select different CSS style sheets (themes)

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to make a script that changes the layout of your site according to the users preference. They can choose how they want to view your site.

This is a detailed tutorial on Sending Email using Forms, in this tutorial you will also learn about alot of Php elements. And other kinda things.

This article will provide beginners and others new to Apache 2 and PHP compilation, detailed information about how to compile PHP and Apache 2 on Linux system. It should work on all Unix like OS. Even if you just want to learn how to compile software from source on Linux like OS, this article will provide enough information to get you started. After reading this article any person, who hasn't yet compiled any software from source, will be able to compile and run PHP and Apache on his Linux Machine.

This article introduces PHP's pseudo-random functions to the reader and explains the difference between a pseudo-random and a truly random number.

This article is intended for experienced PHP programmers interested in exploring PHP 5's support for working with class types through argument hinting, abstract classes and interfaces. Basic knowledge of object-oriented programming, including the anatomy of a class and the mechanics of inheritance, is assumed.

Learn how to count the words from a string using php.

This tutorial will start introducing the array concept by creating them from info in a table. It will be shown how to display data from the array. Two additional examples will be used to show how to create arrays from strings, and how to perform simple keyword searches.

A collection of 11 tips on PHP array introduction. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on declaring and creating arrays, assigning and retrieving array elements, identifying elements by keys and indexes, copying arrays: What Is an Array in PHP? How To Create an Array? How To Test If a Variable Is an Array? How To Retrieve Values out of an Array? What Types of Data Can Be Used as Array Keys? How Values in Arrays Are Indexed? Can You Add Values to an Array without a Key? Can You Copy an Array? How to Loop through an Array? How the Values Are Ordered in an Array? How To Copy Array Values to a List of Variables?

A collection of 19 tips on manipulating PHP strings. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on string functions including strlen, trim, substr, chop, strpos, strcmp, split, etc

If you are the root user then it will display all the databases on the server, but if your not the root user then it will show all the databases that your user has permissions for. It's a really fun to play around with and can be expanded in a variety of ways. It's explained in the comments.

A collection of 8 tutorials on working with directories and files: How To Create a Directory? How To Remove an Empty Directory? How To Remove a File? How To Copy a File? How To Dump the Contents of a Directory into an Array? How To Read a Directory One Entry at a Time? How To Get the Directory Name out of a File Path Name? How To Break a File Path Name into Parts?