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Create Dynamic URLs With Mod_Rewrite and PHP Functions

on Tue May 13 20:02:00 GMT 2008 in PHP

A while ago I wrote an article on how to use mod_rewrite for search engine friendly URLs, but have since found the uses lacking. For one thing, you can’t pass variables well without adding more commands to mod_rewrite. So here you’ll learn to add unlimited parameters to your links with only one simple PHP function.

How To Make Your Own Image Gallery With An Administration

on Tue May 13 22:23:59 GMT 2008 in PHP

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 create an image gallery: the administration comes complete with a login check, an upload form, a system for describing your images in a database, and the front end has everything including showing thumbnails of all your images, how to use the very great Script.aculo.us library for some great effects, and a javascript slideshow.

Creating a Full Statistics Suite With Administration

on Tue May 13 20:41:59 GMT 2008 in PHP

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 yourself? Here, you’ll learn how to track where your visitor goes, where they come from, what browser they use, and how many total hits and unique hits you get complete with a login check.

Creating A Scaffold-like Class in PHP or An Automatic CMS For a Table

on Tue May 13 22:22:04 GMT 2008 in PHP

If you’ve ever seen the Creating a Weblog In 15 Minutes movie, you were undoubtedly startled at how useful and quick the scaffold command could be. But if you’re still using PHP, and you love that command, then you could have a problem. Luckily, through the use of Object Oriented Programming, an equivalent solution is available, creating a full create, read, update, and delete CMS for a single table through one command.

Creating a Templating System Using Object Oriented Programming

on Tue May 13 21:16:11 GMT 2008 in PHP

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 programming functions.

Building Content By Parsing RSS Feeds With PHP

on Tue May 13 19:47:55 GMT 2008 in PHP

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 and automatically add each item into the database.

Generating RSS Feeds on the Fly With PHP

on Tue May 13 21:56:26 GMT 2008 in 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.

Building an RSS Feed From a Database

on Tue May 13 22:01:16 GMT 2008 in PHP

Learn how to take information in a MySQL database table and export it to RSS using the file writing capabilities of PHP.

Building a BBCode Function

on Tue May 13 19:01:21 GMT 2008 in PHP

How to construct a function to build the useful BBCode that are used in most forums.

Introduction to Functions

on Tue May 13 20:41:42 GMT 2008 in PHP

An introduction to how to make simple functions using PHP.

Building Yet Another PHP Navigation

on Tue May 13 18:09:15 GMT 2008 in PHP

How to build another PHP navigation using the switch() statements. Includes an explanation of GET variables.

Caching PHP Operations

on Tue May 13 09:12:48 GMT 2008 in PHP

How to use output buffers to cache code in PHP to make your applications run faster.

Building a MySQL Class Using OOP

on Tue May 13 22:06:28 GMT 2008 in PHP

How to use object oriented programming in php to create a class to make interacting with MySQL databases much easier.

An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

on Tue May 13 14:37:07 GMT 2008 in PHP

How to use PHP’s object oriented capabilities and build more sophisticated applications.

Editing Rows in MySQL

on Tue May 13 20:16:05 GMT 2008 in PHP

This tutorial teaches the very basics of editing rows in MySQL databases, very useful for mistakes made.

Hit Counter

on Tue May 13 21:23:48 GMT 2008 in PHP

Statistics is something that can be very useful to any website, telling how many visits you have, how many are different people, and so on. This tutorial will tell how to do all of that with a MySQL database.

Your First MySQL Database

on Tue May 13 22:06:21 GMT 2008 in PHP

MySQL Databases are a pretty crucial part to expanding your knowledge of PHP. They can be used to store data much easier than in flat files, and are used for most big-time applications like forums or blogs.

PHP Includes

on Tue May 13 13:06:52 GMT 2008 in PHP

One of the most basic and useful things in PHP is includes. You can use them for just about anything, and they carry many uses.