Here again, today we'll discuss how to connect to Mysql database using PHP and how to store and retrieve data from MySQL database. I've choosen a simple Guestbook application as the example...

    When I first started programming in C many of my programmers were littered with IF statements. Is this good programming or there are better ways? What about SWITCH? What is better to use and how can this help to speed up your script execution time?...

    Part 3: The Power of PHP
This is the third and final article in THE POWER OF THREE: XML, XSLT, AND PHP series. We will learn how to bring it all together and develop websites that utilize XML, XSLT and PHP to create a rich and powerful site...

    Wouldn't it be great to create a photo gallery to showcase all that bunch of jpegs that we collect on our hard drives over the time? Utilizing PHP and MySQL enables us to create such photo gallery using only one page of code! Sounds good? Let's get started....

    This article discusses the various file handling options availabe in PHP and how we can implement them...

    When you first start learning PHP, there are so many aspects to the language. PHP has hundreds of builtin functions that make it possible to do powerful things. But it does not stop there since you can write your own...

    Part 2: The Power of XSLT
This is the second article in The Power of Three: XML, XSLT and PHP series. I am going to help you set up Sablotron on PHP so that you are able to parse XML files with XSLT in PHP with the use of Sablotron (A PHP extension for parsing XSLT files). I will walk you through the set up Sablotron and then configuring it with PHP. This allows you to use XML and XSLT together with PHP. Our goal is to be able to open XML files in PHP and transform them with XSLT...

    Part 1: The Power of XML
This is an introduction and presentation into the value and use of PHP and XML in a single environment. This is a series of articles that take a journey into the basics of XML and the fundamentals of PHP...

    Many of you have probably noticed these funny question marks over the "someone's code", yet not all might have understood what do they really mean. Want to know? Well, Ternary Operator is a very common language construct for many programming languages in use today from JavaScript to C++, though, it can often be tricky to use, especially if you don't have other programming experiences besides PHP...

    This article is designed for all of you who want to learn the basics of sessions. The session capabilities are very powerful and easy to use. Sessions allows you to keep user habits, they can tell you what user have just done on your site and, perhaps even personalize your content for him...

    One of the very first real parts of an application that every PHP beginner hits is how to handle users and passwords. Think about it. Let's say that you want to write any of the following...