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...

Here’s an interesting blog about Microformats. That’s a new term for some of the old stuff on the net. RSS for example is a microformat. The Microformat site (www.microformats.org) defines Microformats as: De...

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...

Here’s a tutorial from Sebastian Bergmann on how to perform testing on PHP code using PHPUnit. The article covers Automated Tests, Testing with PHPUnit and what PHPUnit has to offer. The release of PHP 5 in July 20...

There are times while you’re surfing and you land on a page which make you say “WOW ! How did he do this????”. Well I found one like that today while surfing for CSS. Here’s one person who demonst...

While looking for material, to make up a small presentation for my team on methods to debug the code, I came across a very good article from IBM on the subject: This article details various methods for debugging PHP appl...

This is something which every web programmer should be aware of. SQL Injection is born due to poor input filtering done by a developer. A hacker can probe around your code and try to get SQL scripts running on your serve...

A 30 second tutorial on Ajax by the PHP man himself - Rasmus Lerdorf. I find a lot of this AJAX stuff a bit of a hype. Lots of people have been using similar things long before it became “AJAX”. And it real...

I was looking for a method to allow users to increase or decrease font sizes on the site. I saw this done on abcnews.com, and wanted to impelment this on a site I’m working on. Came across the following links which...