Being a good PHP hacker isn't just about writing single line solutions to complex problems. For example, web gurus know that speed of coding is much more important than speed of code. In this article we'll look at techniques that can help you become a better PHP hacker. We'll assume that you hav ...

So you've read about how Object Oriented programming can help you with your big web projects and you've started it using with PHP? If you've already written a handful of classes to implement a site and you're methodic, then you should have written some documentation about them. But If you're jus ...

This is a simple PHP script that lets you add text news to your homepage through a Web admin interface. It allows you to add, delete, modify and list the news articles. Methods used include: form handlin, file handling, POST method, and Arrays.

PHP seems very much in vogue now - with an increasingly greater number of web hosts providing support for it. For those who have only vaguely heard of it and are not too sure what it is, this article discusses PHP and informally compares it with writing CGI scripts in Perl.

Pheed is a database-driven Web site news manager written in PHP. Features include: multilanguage support (English, French, and Russian), multiple databases support (MySQL, ODBC) with an abstraction layer, fast, you can add news in plain text or rich HTML format, photo (with automatic upload) and ...

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's technology for displaying dynamic web pages. ASP supports multiple programming languages; the most commonly used is VBScript. PHP is the open source alternative to ASP that runs on multiple operating systems, incuding Linux and Windows.

"My July Article comparing PostgreSQL and MySQL caused a stir that really surprised me. Of course, users of both databases called the tests rigged one way or the other, even though I noted that both databases had their strong points under various circumstances. All that aside, we've been runni ...

The Java extension is an extremely exciting tool. By learning how to use this module, you can extend PHP by the power of all available Java classes. To show you the basics of the Java extension, this article will cover installation and a few code examples of using PHP and Java together.

The long-awaited official release of PHP4 finally hit the streets in May, signalling a new era in server-side programming: a speedy, stable, customizable, "all hail open source" era.

NewsDaemon is a PHP based news tool. It is designed to allow users to submit news and comment on stories.