Here are a few XML parsing tutorials from kirupa.com. Kirupa.com is a cool place to check out tutorials on Flash and PHP. ” If you are looking at this tutorial then you probably have a good idea in your head about ...

Imagine using a simple HTML file to send a request to a server-side script, receive a custom XML file based on that request, and then display it to the user without ever refreshing the browser! Kris Hadlock explains how ...

PHP is a terrific language for the rapid development of dynamic Websites. It also has many features that are friendly to beginning programmers, such as the fact that it doesn’t require variable declarations. Howeve...

Imagine that you’re selling a digital product online. Maybe you’ve written an article or a book and want to sell it on your site as a PDF. There are many ways one could do this, but one of the more convenient...

This lab series is not a tutorial on writing PHP programs or scripting dynamic Web pages. Rather its intent is to demonstrate how you can use PHP to separate the different elements that make up a well designed and va...

Derick Rethans has posted the notes from the recent PHP 6 meeting in Paris. Looks like quite a few features will be deprecated in PHP 6 - like Register Globals, Magic quotes, Safe mode, Register Long arrays and more. So...

From the Blogs of Chris Shiflett, Power PHP Testing using Apache_test, Simple-Test, PHPUnit and phpt. The tutorial that Geoff Young and I gave at ApacheCon has sparked some discussion (mostly via email) that I think will...

Here’s a method to extract multiple values from $_GET and $_POST variables in one easy step. This is useful if you have a form which passes your PHP script multiple values which you need to process. Typically you...

Randomize CSS styles using PHP. A good one to look at if you want to want to automatically change your site’s look and feel on the fly. | Variables in your CSS via PHP There are a number of ways to use PHP with oth...

Another Security Tutorial for PHP, this one on Email Injection. This is how a lot of Spammers take over poorly written PHP Mailers to do their dirty work for them. There are a lot of ways to send anonymous emails, some u...