Which database do I use: Postgres or MySQL? This age-old question has plagued developers for, what, at least a couple years now. I've used both databases extensively (MySQL for about one year and Postgres for about 2 years) and was curious if the performance differences between the two were as s ...

an SWF ("flash") output library and PHP module

Almost any developer knows that search engine placement is critical to the success of a web site. What many people don't know is that a lot of search engines cannot index many database-driven pages

phpGreetz is a full featured Virtual Greeting card site application written in PHP. The code is currently 90% functional and running at http://www.webgreetz.com/. Needs modifications to run on other sites, and those mods are coming soon.

PHP lets you do a lot more than simply generating HTML content, it is also a great tool to dynamically generate images on-the-fly. For example, you can create buttons with text from a database create grapical displays of statistics from log files enhance business data with graphs and diagr ...

This tutorial teaches you how to write and use classes, to make your PHP code more flexible and easier to manage. The tutorial guides you through the construction of a simple, security-related class that performs some basic security functions for a web site: checking user logons. The class impl ...

It is a file sharing utility aimed at communities that wish to share files across the Internet and where traditional mechanisms aren't appropriate or efficient. VFS tries to give users the ablity to share their files with exactly who they wish and to ensure that their confidential files remain c ...

This tutorial teaches you how to process a simple feedback form. It records the date and time that the user logged into the system and saves this information, in addition to the user's name and email address, in several cookies. Upon subsequent logins, the code checks whether the user is a new o ...

This particular design of web-based chat uses variables posted from a form, processes them into HTML and writes them to a file. Put the form and the message file in a frameset and you have something that looks reasonably like a BeSeen chat room. Of course the advantage is, our chat room can be a ...

Much of the time spent in past issues has been spent covering PHP and MySQL working in unison to accomplish a particular goal. But what if your ISP was unwilling to support MySQL? Fear not, fellow programmer! PHP offers a series of flexible and powerful filesystem functions, allowing for the pos ...