All the newest tutorials from the shadow fox network on PHP http://www.shadow-fox.net webmaster@shadow-fox.net en-us A while ago I wrote an article on how to "use mod_rewrite for search engine friendly URLs,":http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/27-Using-Mod-Rewrite-for-Search-Engine-Friendly-URLs but have since found the uses lacking. For one thing, you can't pas... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:15:26 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/45-Create-Dynamic-URLs-With-Mod-Rewrite-and-PHP-Functions One thing everyone searches for is a great image gallery. Whether it's to show off your work as a web designer or some pictures of your kid's birthday, an easy way to upload and identify your images is always great. This tutorial will teach you how to ... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:41:20 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/41-How-To-Make-Your-Own-Image-Gallery-With-An-Administration The most important part of your website is your visitors. You should know where they come from, what they use, where they go. There are various statistics software that can tell you all these things, but why use a pre-made one when you can build one yo... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:38:01 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/40-Creating-a-Full-Statistics-Suite-With-Administration If you've ever seen the "Creating a Weblog In 15 Minutes":http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mov movie, you were undoubtedly startled at how useful and quick the scaffold command could be. But if you're still using PHP, and you l... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:29:46 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/39-Creating-A-Scaffold-like-Class-in-PHP-or-An-Automatic-CMS-For-a-Table When building a website, things can get a bit complicated with code written inside the template. A templating system serves to separate the structure (HTML) from the style (CSS) from the code/content (PHP and database) with PHP's object oriented progra... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:11:23 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/38-Creating-a-Templating-System-Using-Object-Oriented-Programming If you run a content driven web site, even a blog, one problem you might find is getting content. A great free source of content is RSS Feeds. Instead of manually adding each item in the feed into the database, you'll set up a script to parse the feed ... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:30:21 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/37-Building-Content-By-Parsing-RSS-Feeds-With-PHP This article serves to augment the previous article. Instead of writing to a file to make an RSS feed, php code is included that makes the output of RSS without writing to a separate file. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:32:06 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/26-Generating-RSS-Feeds-on-the-Fly-With-PHP Learn how to take information in a MySQL database table and export it to RSS using the file writing capabilities of PHP. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:53:30 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/25-Building-an-RSS-Feed-From-a-Database How to construct a function to build the useful BBCode that are used in most forums. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:31:12 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/24-Building-a-BBCode-Function An introduction to how to make simple functions using PHP. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:43:10 +0000 http://www.shadow-fox.net/site/tutorial/23-Introduction-to-Functions