Find and fix common problems on your Joomla! 1.5 Website
Learn to diagnose and fix some of the most common problems with your Joomla! website, without needing to resort to hiring people to fix them, or waiting for extension developers to provide support. You will also understand the implications and risks of customizing a Joomla! site, and using extensions that hack the Joomla! core.

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Template Refernce in Joomla! 1.5
This tutorial covers key reference information under easy-to-look-up headings that will help you with Joomla! template development. From the many CSS ID and class styles that Joomla! outputs, to Joomla!'s jdoc tags and their controlling attributes, the information in this tutorial is listed along with key links to bookmark which will make template development as easy as possible. (pdf tutorial, install Acrobat Reader to read this tutorial)

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ThemeWars, A New Joomla, and The Case of the Missing Title
Ern's summer grab bag covers random news on content management systems and tips on how to hide page titles in Drupal.

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Learn to Secure Joomla! Extensions
This tutorial explains how developers can avoid some of the more common mistakes that lead to security vulnerabilities in Joomla! It also demonstrates how extensions can be made secure and some of the implications if developers fail to do this. PDF FILE

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Image Rotation Take Two
Although my original tutorial on image rotations still works, it's major flaw is the dependency on the script creator to enter a list of images to rotate. While this is not a problem if you only want to rotate a few images, and don't intend on adding to it after creation, it will.

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Joomla 1.5 Advanced Registration
Build a custom registration component.

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PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Managing Cookies
A collection of 23 tips on understanding and managing cookies in PHP. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on setting and receiving cookies, creating and removing persistent cookies, specifying domain and path to restrict cookies, finding cookies in cookie files, cookie limitations.

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Creating Dynamic Website Content with PHP - MySQL
Fresh website content for your visitors can be of real benefit when attempting to generate repeat traffic. Most webmasters, however, just don't have enough spare time to frequently update or rebuild their pages manually. If your web site hosting company provides free access to PHP and MySQL, this article will show you how to combine those two open source tools and replace a portion of your websites' static content with frequently changing dynamic content.

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PHP File Download Security
Protect your downloadable content by storing the files outside your webroot. This is an easy solution to online subscription content protetcion.

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PHP Create Image Thumbnail
In this tutorial you will learn how to generate thumbnails from form uploaded images using GD php image library. The image ratio is maintained, so the thumbnail images will not be deformed. An image verification is performed before uploading and the image size is verified.

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Create image with PHP/GD and adding fonts on the fly
This GD Library thing is one of the cool features started from PHP 3.0 , this one page tutorial lets you see the basic concept of GD library`s working . and how to add fonts etc.

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Image Manipulation using PHP
Create these functions: 1. thumbnail; 2. resize (actual image); 3. reduce (image file size); 4. rotate (by degrees)

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Creating Dynamic PDF files using HTML and PHP
Some may need to convert some text into HTML and some may need to convert some HTML content to an image format. The main reason for the need to convert from one file format to another is because the target file format is best suited for targeted medium where the content need to be displayed. The targeted medium may be an email, a printed hard copy or a web browser. The text format is best suited for sending emails, as the possibility of the email contents getting corrupted in the transition is much lesser, when compared to the HTML formatted emails. PDF document or a word document would be the best choice for taking a printed hard copy and obviously HTML is best for showing contents in web browsers.

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Enhancing Dynamic Twitter Signature Images
In my last article we began putting together a solution that will allow us to display dynamic Twitter signature images in forum posts and emails. In this article well continue where we left off by adding the functions that will harness the power of GD to create the actual image.

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Read news from MySQL
Managing MySQL data with PHP and use them in a simple Flash MX application.

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How to Create an Author Info Section in Wordpress
Its common to find an authors credit and bio at the end of a blog post, especially on blogs that post content from multiple writers. Using a cocktail of Wordpress template tags, an info section can be easily put together to showcase the authors avatar profile image, their name, link to their website and short bio .

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Creating An RSS Feed With PHP And MySQL
Learn to create a custom RSS feed for your website content. These easy to build XML feeds can extend the reach of your content and grow your audience. This howto shows how to build and serve an RSS feed from your MySQL database.

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The Accordion Widget
The accordion widget is a robust and highly configurable widget that is made up of a series of containers and allows users to save space on their web pages by only displaying a certain section of related content at any point in time. This is another component d edicated to the effective display of content. It is like a tabbed interface but positioned vertically instead of horizontally. It has a range of configurable properties that can be used to customize its appearance and behavior.

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Resizing An Image Using PHP
You can use this function to dynamically generate html "width/height" for use with displaying a thumbnail image usingthe original image. This will help save in making dup images just for display as a thumbnail.

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Getting to know Midgard
Server-side scripting languages such as PHP are great for creating dynamic, creative, and compelling Web sites. Unfortunately they have always left the mechanics of creating, rendering, and administering dynamic content to the script author -- until now. This article introduces and shows you how to use Midgard, an open-source system based on PHP that takes over the job of looking after content, allowing you to concentrate on site aesthetics and functionality.

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Output buffering
Output is not buffered by default with PHP and the contents of the script is sent to the browser in chunks as it is created. PHP's output buffering functions buffer the output giving control over when content is sent, allowing it to be compressed and allowing a mixture of headers and content to be coded without getting those "Cannot modify header information - headers already sent" error messages.

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Create dynamic sites with PHP & MySQL
This tutorial shows you how to use two open source, cross-platform tools for creating a dynamic Web site: PHP and MySQL. When we are finished, you will know how dynamic sites work and how they serve the content, and you will be ready to serve your own dynamic content from your site.

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Dynamic Image Generation with PHP
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 diagrams.This tutorial shows you how to use the GD library to dynamically create images on your site. The GD library is an external module which is accessed by a native PHP module.

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PHP Form image verification
When you build a form in your web page, you are susceptible to being spamed by automated systems. In order to make sure that the one who completes the form is human, you can use the system with image verification. You can see here a sample of form with a random text image verification.

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Handling Non ASCII Characters
This tutorial explains: What Is Localization / Internationalization?, Managing Characters in Web Based Applications, Character Traveling Paths, ASCII Characters in PHP Pages

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Building a Smarter Random Image Loader
How to build a smarter image loader that only shows an image once.

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PHP Form Image Upload
This tutorial shows you how to upload an image on your server using PHP and html forms. You will also learn how to verify if the uploaded file is an image (checking the extension), if it doesn't overtakes a size limit and how to change the uploaded file name.

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PHP For Beginners - Free Courses from www.iTechCollege.com
What is PHP? PHP is a computer scripting language, which is originally designed for creating dynamic web pages. PHP is an open-source language, used primarily for dynamic web content and server-side applications. In this course, you will learn how to: How to write to screen; Generate and Retrieve a query string; Use functions; Redirect a page; Show environment variables; How to use cookies in PHP; Include a page; How to connect to MySql database; PHP`s most advantage: create an image directly.

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Multiple select lists with jQuery, JSON, Ajax
This tutorial will all be about managing loading data into multiple select lists and then save the selections in the list.

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Display Random Dynamic Content with PHP and XML
Every developer, at one point in time, will run into a situation where they need to display a small amount of dynamic data. Why create a whole database? Enter the magical world of XML. XML is easily manageable by anyone who has ever even dabbled a bit in HTML, so understanding should come easily just by looking at an XML file. PHP has classes already set up to parse XML. Here you\ll learn how to use PHP and XML to randomly generate HTML content.

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Using Sessions in PHP
Building web applications with membership management is one of the most frequent tasks that every programmer does. Managing membership data, such as username, password and the member's profile with sessions in PHP is the easiest and simplest solution, although it is not the only one.

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Session Management and Authentication with PHPLIB
This three-page online tutorial talks about managing user session and authntication using PHPLIB, a set of PHP classes designed to make is easier to develop web based PHP applications.

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PHP by example, Part I
As a language for building dynamic Web pages, PHP offers a simplified method for constructing complex and powerful Web-related programs.Step by step, Erik demonstrates the fundamental principles of PHP in an original, real-world Web site example. Part 1 of this two-part series offers the basics of PHP and features a Webzine that includes an author's page where content providers can enter the text of articles, as well as a front end for presenting this content to the world.

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Get the width and hieght of an image using a function in PHP
PHP provides a function to get the width and height of an image. The getimagesize() function will determine the size of image file including flash file(swf).

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Generating Images on the Fly With PHP
One of the most popular features of PHP is real-time image generation. That is, we can create a new image canvas, "paint" it, and either save it to a file, or send it directly to the browser. This article will show you how to create an image in real-time with PHP.

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Managing Non ASCII Character Strings
This tutorial explains: "mbstring" Extension, "mbstring" Functions, "mbstring" Basic Tests, HTTP Input and Output Encoding.

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Building a Database-Driven Web Site Using PHP and MySQL
This ten part series of articles will teach you everything you'll need to build a database-driven Web site from the ground up. Main topics include: Installation, Getting Started with MySQL, Getting Started with PHP, Using PHP to access a MySQL database, Relational Database Design, A Content Management System, Content Formatting and Submission, MySQL Administration, Advanced SQL, and Advanced PHP.

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random image
This is a simple random image script which is ideal for displaying basic images from a text file .

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Watermark your images using PHP
Do you have an image that you want to keep a copyright on? Putting you logo or a URL of your website on each and every image is a quite a long and tedious process so here is a solution in PHP.

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PHP Script Image of the day
In this script shows you how to display image of the day. You can adapt this script to display quote of the day, knowledge of the day or something else you want. You don't have to change image everyday just change images once a week.

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