Listing categories and sub-categories in tree format
This tutorial will show you the basics of recursion and how to list categories and sub-categories to the nth level in tree format in a directory kind of script.

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Non-default Magento Themes
In this chapter readers can view non-default themes in Magento, and will learn to make the best use of those themes in order to provide a better experience to their customers.

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PHP attributes
A common way of accessing structures or objects uniformly is to use attributes access (also known as properties or metadata). Attributes allows code to read and write single values from an object in one general way.

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Enhancing User Experience with WordPress
This Chapter focuses on enhancing user experience and helps users make their blog a better place by focusing on the following areas:- Replacing the Next and Previous links by a paginator Highlighting searched text in search results Using the CSS sliding doors technique within WordPress Creating a dropdown menu for your categories Adding a breadcrumb to your theme Displaying related posts Display tabs on your sidebar

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Filtering Wordpress Categories Using an Undocumented Hook
In this article, we will briefly cover Wordpress hooks and use an undocumented one in order to manipulate category listings.

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Classes and OOP in PHP
Object orientated programming (OOP) is a commonly used term when discussing modern programming techniques. One of the things that makes humans stand out is the ability to categorise - we put objects into categories of similar type of function.

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Retrieving XML With cURL And SimpleXML
This tutorial explains how to use Curl and SimpleXML SimpleXML is a php5 extension used to parse XML data. Topics covered include loading XML documents, parsing nodes & attributes, and filtering data with XPath statements.

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XML processing with PHP
XML is Extensible Markup Language. It is a markup language - much like HTML - and was designed to describe data. XML uses tags but these tags are not predefined as in HTML. In XML you define your own tags. All XML documents have 3 types of components: Elements, attributes and data.

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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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Creating a Shoutbox
This tutorial - "Creating a Shoutbox" will keep your interest as well as teach you a great bit of design with all the code you will need right on the page. The author makes it a snap with lots of photos and illustrations.

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Creating PDF documents
This tutorial steps you through the process of creating PDF documents with PHP.

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Uploading, Saving and Downloading Binary Data in a MySQL Database
This article is aimed at answering one of the most asked questions on the PHP mailing list and discussion forums alike: How to store binary files in a MySQL database. This article is split into three pages: Setting up the database, Creating the 'upload' scripts, and Creating the 'download' script.

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PHP Script Tips - Creating Your Own Functions
A collection of 19 tips on creating your own PHP functions. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on defining functions, defining arguments, passing references, returning references, argument default values, etc.

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Creating a graphic clock using Date() functions in PHP
In this tutorial I aim to show you one of the many ways of showing the time on a webpage. Many websites use a textual display of the date and time on their site. In this tutorial we will be creating a unique graphic clock using PHP.

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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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Remove whitespace from string
I have been doing a lot of coding using the framework CodeIgniter lately so I have been creating many simple helper functions to perform different tasks. My most recent project involves creating PDF files with text from a database. The problem is that the text from the database is dirty, meaning that in a persons name there could be multiple spaces between the persons first and last name or even spaces at the end of their name. In dealing with legacy data that you cannot change but needs to be output correctly without those spaces you get creative. The below function should help solve this issue .

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Banner Rotation Using PHP
Creating a simple ad-rotator, the ads are stored in a text file and picked randomly by this PHP code. Most of the webmaster use banner ads, we will be creating a very simple banner rotator, which picks up randomly one ad from the banner file and displays it, this file can be called in any other page to display the banners.

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Creating a News System in PHP
With this tutorial creating a news system in php.

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Creating Dynamic Next / Previous Buttons with PHP and MySQL
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to Creating Dynamic Next / Previous Buttons with PHP and MySQL.

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Creating a Mail Form with PHP and Flash - Part 2
This tutorial will explain how to Creating a Mail Form with PHP and Flash - Part 2.

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Making your first PHP page
Creating a PHP page is very similar to creating an HTML page. There are two main differences between an HTML page and a PHP page, your PHP page will need to have a .php extension instead of .html, and you will use PHP code in your PHP page.

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Creating a simple PHP guestbook
Creating simple PHP guestbook

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Stopping Multiple Signups
Creating a random image for signup scripts to stop bots.

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Creating a file system browser
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a PHP application to display directory content and navigate between them.

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Creating file online
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a file on your web server using your browser.

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Creating a function
How to create a function and understanding its structure is a necessity in terms of PHP programming.

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Creating Images
In this tutorial you'll generate images dynamically through your scripts.

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Creating CAPTCHA
Keep them bots at bay with this CAPTCHA tutorial.

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PHP Function
When you have a set of variables or want to make your code simpler, you will use a function. Creating a function is really easy.

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File Creator/Editor
Create a form that makes and/or adds data to files on your server. Could be useful in creating a simple guestbook and free for all links flat file database.

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Create a Visitor Map
This tutorial aims to outline the process of creating a visitor map you sometimes see on MySpace profiles.

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Creating a simple PHP guestbook
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a simple PHP guest book.

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Functions with Endless Amounts of Arguments
Learn how to creating functions with an indefinite amount of user arguments.

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Making a File Download Counter
We are creating a simple, yet robust, file download tracker.

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Creating a count down system
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple count down system.

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SQL Theory & How-To
This article addresses two SQL-related issues in PHP: 1) Creating complex, powerful, queries to take advantage of your table schemas, and 2) Building those queries on the fly according to user input.

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Creating a PHP form
PHP is a great processor of forms, hence knowing how to write a simple form for php processing is the precursor to make the PHP work.

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PHP for PDF
With this Tutorial you'll learn how to use the PDF extension in PHP4 to create PDF documents.We also put focus on creating PDF documents with data from MySQL.

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Creating Dynamic Images with PHP
This simple tutorial explains how to create images on the fly using PHP. It presents a simple code which you can use with a TTF font on your site.

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Simple Image Resize in GD
Were going to be creating it in a function, so that we can re-use this wherever we need to. This particular function saves the thumbnail file to a directory on the server, you could actually skip saving the file and just print out the image itself if you would prefer to do that.

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