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On this three part tutorial we''ll go through the steps to install Apache,PHP and MySql on a machine with Windows Vista 32 bit

Create a backup script and execute the PHP script using a CRON job. This tutorial is for webmasters if the websites control panel has only capabilities to create full site backups and/or where the access via SSH is disabled.

This article shows how to use regular expression and PHP to validate correct email id format. Sample code snippet is attched.

This function is an alternative to str_ireplace() function in php5. It is useful when you need to call str_ireplace() function but you have php4 installed in your server. Put this function stri_replace() as a custom function in your code and do the same work as str_ireplace() does in PHP5

This is a PHP Class useful if you need to resize images keeping their aspect ratio, using the GD Library. The new height is calculated proportionally to the new width’s size and reverse. For instance you have an image with the following dimensions: width – 1000, height – 800. Its thumbnail with a width of 250 will have the height of 200 (the ratio is kept).

This is a tutorial useful if you need to make a script that selects random image(s) from a folder.

This is a simple tutorial about creating a simple web data fetcher that will fetch specific content from a URL.

This script is useful if you want to restrict the access to some people on your site, based on their IPs.

This is a short tutorial that will give you an idea of how to create a Tag Cloud and implemented it the pages of your website.

This tutorial can give you an idea of how to center a text on an image using the GD Library. The script creates an image and centers a text on it.

Here you'll find how to get form processing script easily in a few minutes and with no programming required.

Here is described what to do in few steps to install PHP/MySql/Apache on Windows 2003 64bit

JWRmedia's free online PHP lessons explains in detail all the popular functions, statements and operators so that you can easily and quickly learn PHP.

This tutorial will explain the different methods of accessing the system command line from a PHP script. Being able to run external programs can come in handy, and fortunately there are multiple functions that will do this. We will explain the differences betweeen these so you can choose the best one for your purpose. The functions covered are exec(), system(), passthru(), and shell_exec(), as well as escapeshellcmd() and escapeshellarg().

This PHP can be used for achieving watermarking task easily. I hope it will help you too.

This PHP function is a very basic one, yet useful for a single page image gallery within a small website. It reads all the images from given folder and creates a simple looking gallery with given sized thumbnails.

Before sending the user given search string to MySql, its a good idea to remove common words used in it so that it may not disturb any relevant results you have in your DB. Their are far more professional approaches out there for this task but this simple one helps often.

If you need to count files in a folder using PHP then this little piece of php is just for you. Easy to add and change.

For Windows 32-bit Threadsafe PHP ONLY! Includes: PHP Version: 5.2.8 MySQL Client API version : 5.1.31

*** For Windows 32-bit Non-Threadsafe PHP ONLY! *** Includes: PHP Version: 5.2.8-nts MySQL Client API version : 5.1.31