Welcome to the first issue of "Code Gallery Spotlight", a weekly column that will spotlight an interesting code snippet or application in our code gallery and discuss where it can be used, how it works, etc! Every week I will pick from the most useful and interesting code snippets in our gallery ...

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.

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 ...

Too often PHP is thought of as only an HTML-embedded Web scripting language. But it is also a very full-featured general purpose language that can be used for much more. One of the goals behind this project was to prove that PHP can be used to write client-side GUI applications.

One of the most common tasks that I came across developing interactive websites was processing users' input. In this article, I would like to share the experience I had developing an object-oriented solution for it. The best effect that I can imagine this paper to have is to not just show "anoth ...

This article helps explain how to use Macromedia Flash 5 in conjunction with PHP and a MySQL database. This demonstration will show you how to setup a simple login and registration form, then allow users to save movie clip positions and various properties in the database. When they log back in t ...

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One day, I found a site about Ming, a SWF output library and PHP module. Somehow, it attracted me, and gave me a driving force to try it immediately. I tried to read quickly to find things I'd be able to download. I downloaded the source code, the examples, and the precompiled PHP module. When I ...

PHP in Verbindung mit dem Gtk Toolkit erlaubt es jetzt auch PHP Programmierern, Programme mit grafischer Oberfläche zu erstellen, ohne auf die Vorteile der beliebten Skriptsprache verzichten zu müssen.

In this article, I will briefly describe how to compile PHP with ORACLE 8i support. When I tried to compile php with oracle support on Solaris 2.6, I received lots of problems. After tedious search on the internet, I have found a solution.