PHP Tutorials

File Includes in PHP Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to include files in PHP in just a few easy steps.

There are four core constructs for including files into your PHP scripts. The main objective is for you to create code in separate files and then be
able to use that code to include functions, variables etc., in other PHP scripts. You have two main options. To include() a file or to require() a
file. We'll get into the specifics in a moment and you'll quickly understand what the differences
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Calendar Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to build calendar in PHP in just a few easy steps.

There may be simpler ways of creating a calendar than the examples in this tutorial, but it will give practice of using some advanced arrays,
date/time functions and work on utilizing some other features of PHP
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Counter Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to create counter in PHP in just a few easy steps.

This counter works by creating a cookie on the user's computer with their IP and it updates the count according to the status of that cookie. If the
cookie is present and the IP in the cookie is the same as the user's current IP then the script knows the user has already been there and it does
nothing or if it is present, but has an IP different than the user's current IP or is not present the script knows that the user is either new or was
there before, but the cookie has expired so it then updates the count
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User Authentication Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to protect scripts with HTTP authentication in just a few easy steps.

The first step in protecting a script with HTTP Author is to make that script send HTTP Code 401 to users that don't send a username/password pair,
which means "You need to send a password to see me." This is easily achieved in PHP via the Header()
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File Upload Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to write a file upload class in PHP in just a few easy steps.

Code starts with the word 'class.' Directly after the word 'class' is the class name. You can name this whatever you would like and stick with your
naming conventions, but for this exercise its named 'Upload_Class'
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Use of XML in PHP Tutorial

This tutorial introduces XML and shows how to use in PHP in just a few easy steps.

In XML, tags are used to describe the content within them. Basically, that's what XML is all about. It describes the item, namely book. So, for
instance, tag "title" within "book" is here to describe book's
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JPGraph Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to create pie charts using JPGraph in just a few easy steps.

This code will create a pie chart but you must have configured JPGraph in your system just make sure it is done before you try this
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Text Search Module Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to enable MySQL Full-Text searches for an improved method to search your websites in just a few easy steps.

When you start designing a really cool site and you desire to have search functionality, you should seriously consider using the MySQL Full-Text
feature. The advantages of Full-Text searching outweigh the standard search querying by selecting fields from tables using the LIKE clause
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GD Library Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to create images at runtime using PHP in just a few easy steps.

This tutorial gives a good introduction about the PHP GD functions. It focuses on basic configuration and programming
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