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Building a User Rating Application for Your Website: Learn how to build a user rating system that enables users to rate products on a website.
Create a Localized Web Page with PHP: Learn how to create an HTML page that uses PHP to let a user choose the language the page displays.
Build Your Own PHP Web Mailer: Get not only instructions for creating a PHP Web mailer but also a list of PHP commands that you can use to customize the Web mailer.
Managing Your Email Campaigns with phpList: Find out how to set up -- and when necessary, hack -- phpList on your server to get the most of this popular email campaign manager.
Using PHP Encryption for Login Authentication: Learn how to use PHP encryption to ensure that only authorized users gain access to your Web applications.
Implementing One-way Encryption in PHP: Learn how to use one-way encryption in PHP by building a secure online diary application.
Encryption Techniques for Your PHP Development: Using some of the encryption techniques that PHP offers, you can safeguard your sensitive information in various ways.
Build a Shopping Cart Admin Tool for Your PHP Online Store: With an online shopping cart administration tool in place, you can easily create administrators and non-administrators for your PHP site and manage their privileges and tasks accordingly.
Creating an Online Shopping Cart Mechanism in PHP: Explore the PHP scripts behind a functioning online shopping cart and learn how to use them with a real-world example.
Building an Online Shop's Product Detail Page: Adding to our online store, this week we cover building the product detail page and begin creating the shopping cart.
Building an online Store: Learn how to create a simple, online storefront, which can be used as a foundation to build more sophisticated online shopping carts, with PHP and MySQL.
Globalize your Web Applications: PHP's Locale Formatting Classes: This article focuses on the administration side of our banking application, covering the creation of the admin scripts and discussing how proper administration can improve performance.
Globalize your Web Applications: Working with Dates in PHP: Using language-specific locale features allows your applications to support many different locales, regardless of the settings on the computer, which runs the application. Today's article takes a look at date formatting considerations in PHP.
Creating a Banking Application Admin Panel using Object Oriented Programming: This article focuses on the administration side of our banking application, covering the creation of the admin scripts and discussing how proper administration can improve performance.
Globalize your Web Applications: PHP's Locale Package: In the modern globalized economy, it behooves us to think of other nationalities when we develop our websites and applications. This article is the kickoff for a series that discusses the ramifications of globalization on our websites and applications. Today's article will deal with locales and their implementation in the PHP language.
The Methods Behind the Banking Application Profile Script: In our ongoing series about creating a banking application using Object Oriented Programming, J. Leidago Noabeb discusses the methods that were used by the customer profile script and then shows you how to create the new account script.
Creating a Banking Application Deposit Script: Our last article discussed the withdraw script that enables a customer to make a withdrawal from an account of their choice. This installment explores the mechanisms behind making a deposit into an account.
Building a Banking Application Home Page with OOP: Learn how to create a banking application using Object Oriented Programming that became available in PHP 5.
Object Oriented Programming- The Banking Application - Login: This article discusses the login portion of our banking application that we created using the new Object Oriented Programming that became available in PHP 5. We will also cover some additional OOP concepts that we have not looked at yet.
Object Oriented Programming- The beginning: This article explores the new Object Oriented Programming that became available in PHP 5. Get some hands-on experience as we create an application demonstrating the concepts.
Data Filtering with PHP: This article explores some of the new data filtering functions that became available in PHP 5. By J. Leidago Noabeb 0609
User Personalization with PHP: The Admin Section: The final installment of our series on User Personalization with PHP focuses on the Administration of the bookmark application. By J. Leidago Noabeb 0609
User Personalization with PHP: The Final Scripts: This installment of " User Personalization with PHP" examines the last scripts that make up the main section of the application. In particular, it covers how to add , remove and change bookmark information. By J. Leidago Noabeb 0509
User Personalization with PHP: The Home Page: Learn how to build an online bookmark system. By creating your own, you have full control over your application, which allows you to tweak it to suit your needs. By J. Leidago Noabeb 0509
User Personalization with PHP: User Registration: Part four of our series on building an online bookmark system covers the registration script, which is responsible for admitting new users to our system. By J. Leidago Noabeb 0409
User Personalization with PHP: User Login: Part 3 of User Personalization with PHP: Beginning the Application discusses securing the login page, to make it as difficult as possible for attackers to break the application. By J. Leidago Noabeb 0309
User Personalization with PHP: The Verification Code: Part two of our series on User Personalization with PHP looks at user authentication. User authentication simply means verifying that a particular user has the right to access a part of our application. Read on to learn more... By J. Leidago Noabeb 0309
User Personalization with PHP: Beginning the Application: In this tutorial we will build an online bookmark system. This will be used to create a database for storing all our URL's and their descriptions. By creating our own, we have full control over our application, allowing us to tweak it to suit our needs. By J. Leidago Noabeb 0209
How to Create a Search Feature with PHP and MySQL: This week you'll learn how to create a searchable form feature that will query a database table and display current staff member information. Topics include: creating a database table to hold staff listings, a search form, using PHP and (SQL) to capture information and more. By Ryan Butler. 0807
Class Inheritance with PHP: There are many benefits of inheritance with PHP, the most common is simplifying and reducing instances of redundant code. In this article you'll work with PHP 5 and Object Oriented Programming (OOP) to create a scalable application. By Kris Hadlock. 0912
Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL: Part 2: This installment continues with learning how to write Web applications. You'll learn about the basic layout of Web applications, the user interface, 3-tier and n-tier architectures, performance, scalability applications and more. By Prentice Hall. October 3, 2005
Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL: Part 1: This book excerpt takes a look at writing Web applications. You'll learn about the technologies and protocols that make up the World Wide Web, how they work, how to define Web applications, how to structure them and more. By Prentice Hall PTR. September 26, 2005
Review: Rapid PHP 2005: Of the many editors available for creating (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP pages, several combine a few different yet compatible languages. Some include support and a few manage to make it work seamlessly. RapidPHP 2005 belongs in the latter category. By Lee Underwood. June 24, 2005.
Beginning PHP: Learn how to generate graphics using PHP; a powerful, new scripting language.
Email Forms in PHP: Recent convert Dan Ball shows you the basics of PHP scripting by way of a simple Email submission form.
Intro to PHP: Stirling Hughes offers up a solid introduction to PHP.
PHP and Regular Expressions 101: Guest author Mitchell Harper offers up this primer on the use of Regular Expressions in PHP.
phpHoo: In this tutorial, we start out with the basics of using MySQL with PHP and create a program with the same functionality found in Yahoo like directories. Source code of phpHoo included.
PHP/MySQL Interface for HierMenus 4: Guest author J. "JC" Chakrabarty discusses his PHP/MySQL interface to HierMenus 4, which allows you to dynamically retrieve data that can then be used in JavaScript scripts.
Professional PHP4 XML: Join us for a cappuccino on the corner of PHP and XML, the intersection for two of the busiest streets in the Web developer community. Among the topics: transformation of XML, modifying XML, and writing XML. From Wrox.

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PHP Hypertext Preprocessor: PHP Home. This is where the PHP downloads and documentation live.
Zend: Billing itself as "The PHP Company," Zend technologies is the creator of the celebrated Zend Engine included in PHP4. The site offers code, tutorials, and other Zend tools including a PHP development studio, PHP server accelerator, and application deployment tools.
DevShed: Frequently updated PHP tutorials and case studies dripping with example code.
Google: Google's, aka, the Open Directory's list of PHP sites and resources.
Hotscripts.com: PHP: Listings of many resources, including scripts and tutorials.
PHP3 for OSX Server: A PHP port that runs on the Macintosh OSX Server.
PHP Builder: All the PHP resources you need, from our internet.com sister site.
PHPDeveloper.org: Tutorials of all shapes and sizes as well as daily news briefs pointing out PHP happenings from around the Web. Founding site of the PHP Developer's Network, which also includes PHPAdvisory.com with a focus on PHP security issues; and PHPClasses.org, a PHP Classes Repository.
PHP Resources: Great links from the Web Developer's Virtual Library.
PHP Start4all: A collection of tutorials, scripts, database's, free PHP hosting and Web servers.
PHPWizard.net: Information on creating dynamic Web pages with PHP.
Yahoo: Yahoo's PHP listings from the "Server Side Scripting/PHP" category.

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