PHP4 ext/java provides a simple and effective means for creating and invoking methods on Java objects from PHP. This article will give you a quick tutorial on how to use the PHP Java extension.

If you have implemented a PHP application using an object oriented approach and are disappointed with the performance you get, then this article is worth looking at. Here I will explain how you can use templates to cache your web pages and serve pure static pages. Using this technique you can ha ...

Separating content from presentation is much talked about, and the way to solve that has been using one of the many template classes out there.

One of the greatest advantages when using PHP is obviously speed. PHP4 is in general fast enough for dynamic web content generation, and in most cases you can't even think of anything faster than it. But when you have to face lots of accesses, heavy applications, narrow bandwidth, or other facto ...

phpLinkValidator will validate links in the HTML document you specify and optionally also all related files. It is very easy to use.

Smarty is a template engine for PHP. One of the unique aspects about Smarty that sets it apart from other templating solutions is that it compiles the templates into native php scripts upon the first execution. After that, it just executes the compiled PHP scripts. Therefore, there is no costly ...

PHP is a great language for developing dynamic web sites. Some do it for fun while others for business. It is true that a great part of the web is in English. However, if you are targeting a worldwide audience, then neither English nor Esperanto alone is an option.

This week, we'll explore the basics of connecting to other Web sites or services on the Internet through the socket functions available in PHP 4 and Jason Costomiris' "A whois interface for EVERYTHING" code gallery submission.

With this class you can easily access text files (read/write). get the X Line of a text file. write after line x in the file. return lines containing "foorbar" (with regex). replace a line. and so on...

PHP can open sockets on remote or local hosts. Here is a hands-on example of using such a socket: getting connected to a Usenet News Server, talking to this server, and downloading some articles for a precise newsgroup