Miscellaneous PHP Tutorials

Apache Server PHP MySQL phpMyAdmin Setup using AppServ
Our goal is to be able to run PHP scripts on our own computers for the purpose of dynamic web testing and development. What exactly should you do to get the scripts run properly? Unlike running general HTML scripts in IE or any other browser, running PHP requires some components for the script compilation. The answer to this question is by installing a web server (Apache), PHP Core, and MySQL (for database-driven websites) on your PC.

User Input Validation
A detailed tutorial with basic examples on user input validation using PHP patterns.

Update Twitter Tweet
We will learn how to update the twitter status with a random predefined message.

Using the Facebook API
This tutorial will cover the basics of setting up your first facebook application and generating the usual hello world message along with a link to the users profile.

Saving a PHP File as a Word Document
So you are looking for a way to save a PHP page as a word doc programatically? Then you have come to the right place.

BLOOpress Wordpress Theme
Hello welcome to part 3 of the BLOOpress wordpress theme. Today well be converting our CSS template into a working wordpress theme

Scraping Links With PHP
In this tutorial you will learn how to build a PHP script that scrapes links from any web page.

Active button with CSS and PHP
This tutorial will explain you how to make your button (link) in the navigation active when you are on a specific page.

How to Write a PHP Script to Send a Trackback
Creating a php script to send a trackback HTTP request to a blog, read the response, and let the user know whether or not the trackback was successful.

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

Getting to know GD
Getting to know GD by using this tutorial.

Write a PDF from PHP with a custom font and encoding
How to write a PDF from PHP with a custom font and encoding.

Joomla 1.5 Advanced Registration
Build a custom registration component.

Easy Way to Track Your Visitors - A Simple Script
Learn to code a simple php script (flatfile) to track your visitor's ip address, visit time & date, host name & referrer page.

How to Get the Current Page URL
Sometimes, you might want to get the current page URL that is shown in the browser URL window.

Passing JavaScript variables to PHP
JavaScript is mainly used as a client side scripting language, while PHP is a server side technology. Unlike Java or ASP.Net, PHP doesn't have tools to make it work client side. That is why you need to combine JavaScript and PHP scripts to develop powerful web-applications.

How to Create CAPTCHA Protection using PHP and AJAX
CAPTCHA is a simple test to determine if a user is a computer or a human. It is used to prevent spam abuse on the websites. So if you use CAPTCHA on your web site forms, this can help in stopping some bots and making life harder for other bots in accessing or using your forms. In brief the CAPTCHA protection works by generating a random string, writing it to an image, then storing the string inside of a session or by some other method. This is then checked when the form is submitted. The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to make your own simple CAPTCHA protection using PHP and AJAX technologies.

DSN and DSN-less connections
DSN stands for 'Data Source Name'. It is an easy way to assign useful and easily rememberable names to data sources which may not be limited to databases alone. If you do not know how to set up a system DSN read our tutorial How to set up a system DSN.

Use phpdomxml to create a Guestook in Flash
In this tutorial we will see how to create and manage a simple Guestbook using an XML formatted file (with a simple XSL style-sheet). To do that we will create and parse the XML structure using an open source library for PHP which allow us to threat XML with DOM.

Interfacing with Java from PHP
PHP4 ext/java provides a simple and effective means for creating and invoking methods on Java objects from PHP. This article will give you a quick tutorial on how to use the PHP Java extension.