By David Whittington and Luke Ehresman ABSTRACT PHP provides some nice date manipulation functions that work very well in combination with each other. However they only handle dealing with the server s timezone. Adding the feature for shifting dates to a user-defined timezone can be a very unpleasant experience as we know first hand. In this article...

Jeffery Vaska So you know HTML you installed an open source CMS application and you need to customize the source code. You need to learn PHP basics and quickly. This is a non-technical informational article to assist the newbie programmer on their quest for greater programming skills. First of all the good news is that it is possible. The bad news...

By Jason E. Sweat December 26 2001 Intended Audience Overview Learning Objectives Definitions Background Information Prerequisites How it Works The Script links.php links.tpl About The Author Intended Audience This tutorial is intended for PHP developers with a need to develop applications with goals of long-term flexibility and ease of maintenance....

By Cezar Floroiu August 12 2002 Intended Audience Smarty Overview Smarty for Designers Smarty for Programmers Sample Script Summary About the Author Intended Audience This article is intended for PHP programmers and HTML designers interested in applying a new technique for web development 5; PHP templating. Advanced knowledge of PHP programming and...

By Tiffany Silva August 7 2002 Intended Audience Overview Learning Objectives Basic Terms Widgets Containers Signals Callbacks Installing PHP-GTK GTK Classes GtkWindow GtkFrame GtkVBox GtkLabel GtkHSeparator GtkEntry GtkHButtonBox GtkButton Creating Your First GUI Application How it works The Script About the Author Intended Audience...

Simon Moss There are a number of great online GIS Geographic Information System solutions out there ranging from Mappoint to Mapquest to some cool PHP projects. However it is still nice to be able to plot your own data and put some basic mapping utilities on your site with a minimum of fuss and bother. Over the next couple of articles I will hopefully...

By Ori Staub August 27 2003 Intended Audience Prerequisites Overview - What is a socket server bull; Types of Sockets PHP Socket functions bull; Creating a Socket in PHP bull; The making of a real server bull; Practical Uses bull; Security bull; One at a time please Possible Additions and Improvements About the Author...

stefano Locati So you ve read about how Object Oriented programming can help you with your big web projects and you ve started it using with PHP If you ve already written a handful of classes to implement a site and you re methodic then you should have written some documentation about them. But If you re just messy like me you ve just written some...

By Jalal Pushman July 2 2000 Intended Audience Introduction Semicolons Comments Variables Variable Scope Case sensitivity True and False values Assignment Equality and Identity Understanding PHP Assignments They Do Not Mean Equals" Function call arguments String manipulation Assignment Shortcuts Use of return statement. Classes and Objects...

By Till Gerken February 28 2000 Target Audience Introduction Goals of the Tutorial Background Information Preparing Images for PHP Generating Images with PHP How It Works Setting the Birthday Preparing the Image Drawing Boundaries and Adding Text Drawing the Curves Sending the Image to the Client Using the Image Complete Code Link Directory About the...

Tim Perdue Sorry I haven t updated PHPBuilder is SO long but I ve been a bit busy helping build a new web site called SourceForge . While building the site I stretched my knowledge of PHP and databases and thought I would share a few things I learned. A lot of people ask about passing arrays and using checkboxes select boxes in PHP so that s what...

Klaus A. Brunner I m running a public web-based forum that is read frequently about 10 000 hits per day but gets relatively few postings in the range of 20 to 60 per day . The board software is Phorum a nice open-source PHP application. Although the site has other popular pages to offer Phorum s read.php file is the clear number one in my Apache...

By Andrew Stopford March 18 2001 Intended Audience Overview Learning Objectives Definitions Background Information Prerequisites How the Script Works The Script About the Author Intended Audience This tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer interested in learning more about database connectivity - using the ODBC standard. You should be familiar...

Dante Lorenso The Problem So you have a huge project that you want to build. It s been determined that you want to use PHP and your backend is Oracle. You ve installed Oracle you ve installed your web server and you ve even gotten PHP to connect to your Oracle back end to do some simple queries. Now what If you are like most lazy programmers you...

Uwe Steinmann Motivation Interaction on the WWW often means filling out forms hitting the submit button and getting a certain result. HTML and HTTP provide a mechanism to perform this quite easily through forms. PHP has support for this mechanism in a very convenient way. The values of each input field are stored in PHP variables with the same name...