Installations: Fast and Easy PHP / Installation
LAMP. It stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. It's all you need to build fast, robust Web applications. All four applications can be downloaded from the Internet and used without restriction because they have open-source licenses.
HTML E-mail PHP / Emailing
An HTML e-mail is a message that is presented in HTML instead of plain text. This allows control of colors and fonts, and it even allows the inclusion of images in a message. It's easy to send HTML e-mail from your client, but it's not as easy from a PHP script.
File Uploading in PHP 4 PHP / File Operations
As Web pages move closer to becoming Web applications, the ability to transfer files in their entirety to the server has become a pressing issue. In this week's Code Gallery Spotlight, "ADMIN" shows how to upload files to the server through an HTML form and PHP with their contribution "File uploading".
Keeping your Dynamic Pages Dynamic PHP / General Development
As Web pages become more database-driven and dynamic, it is important that Web browsers display the most up-to-date information available from your site. For those who have been in the PHP field for some time, dealing with this issue is nothing new. The problem itself has nothing to do with PHP at all. Rather, it is the client's browser that is the source.
Search Engine Friendly PHP Pages PHP / Navigation
When writing scripts, it is extremely important to have to ability to transfer information from one script to another. A common method to do this is with the GET convention. Search engine Web spiders, however, tend to ignore pages whose URL contains GET method parameters.
Breadcrumb Navigation PHP / Navigation
Breadcrumb navigation breaks the site into links of categories and sub-categories, until the reader finally reaches the actual page they want.This week, we'll explore the mysteries behind creating breadcrumb navigation for your pages dynamically with Peter Bowyer, and his submission "Breadcrumbs navigation".
Creating PDF Files in PHP PHP / Miscellaneous
The PDF (or portable document format) file is an amazingly versatile format for transferring what usually starts as a hard copy version of a document over the Internet. Many companies use the PDF format to transfer contracts, manuals, and other documents over the Internet without trying to convert them to HTML or changing the format of the document in any way.