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...

    With many browsers on the market today, web designers feel a great pressure to make their code work on all and each of them. In this short article, I'll demonstrate you how easily PHP can detect your user's enviroment...

    Have you ever seen a webpage that, instead of loading you the information you expect, takes you "magically" elsewhere? I'm sure you have. Well, that "magic" is actually called redirection. Similar to those implemented in HTML but server-side, and in our case using (what else?) PHP. This article will briefly teach you it's implementaion. ...

    One of the topics that everyone likes to ignore is localization. By localization, I mean the process of making a website or software product usable by users in other nations (or simply with a different language than yours). Everyone ignores this until they absolutely have to do it -- and then its always something like this: ...

    Another thing we can do is "include" files. This comes in handy when you have the same information on all your pages, over and over again. For example, connecting to the same database, printing the same HTML at the top or bottom of a page. It can be used for headers or footers, or for simplifying things. There are endless possibilities for this. How do we use it?...

    This tutorial is not meant to be a complete coverage of sessions by far, and I'm sure that there are many other questions not answered here. We will try to give you an idea on how to use sessions effectively and what they are really good for...

    PHP is very similiar to ASP. It's a server-side scripting language, which means the web-server does all the work, not the browser. This means it's pretty fast, and you can do pretty complex things fairly easily.
Now, let's start with the basics of PHP. Create a file called test.php with the following...

    I've been playing around with php, and I like it a lot more than Perl. It's always a drag to learn something new when you know the old way well enough - even if the old way is less efficient.

But php is so much better then Perl because php was written for the web, whereas Perl was adapted to it, and thus isn't quite as efficient to both write for and execute on the web.

This article is directed towards the user looking to learn a backend scripting language or the user just learning Perl. (I rate myself as an intermediate Perl/CGI scripter and a php newbie)...

    Getting the Information out of Forms with PHP
This tutorial is for the very beginner out there - we're just introducing PHP and how it can be used to get the information out of the forms created with the tags. Now, for those of you still with us, here's how we're going to start. First, the different kinds of form types...

    This tutorial will show you how to make a very simple PHP counter. Every time the page loads with the code on it, it will count up one hit...

    Installing PHP, Apache, and mySQL on your Windows machine saves your dollars on your telephone bills...