PHP Tutorials — Basics

Learn how to use the TinyURL API and fetch shortened URLs on the fly with PHP.

Functions in PHP are a block of code that can be executed whenever we need it, without the need to write the same code again. Follow the link for the very first steps and introduction to the world of PHP functions.

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Short tutorial on passing reference with PHP

With the help from developers at Facebook, it’s easy to make our site SEO friendly with a little bit of PHP and HTML.

A short tutorial/instructional explaining just how random the PHP rand() function is.

Tutorial on how to calculate script execution time with PHP

In this tutorial, we’re going to find an XML feed from weather.gov and pull the current conditions from it. Then, we’ll use a PHP switch to determine which background-image div to show. We’ll further that by using another PHP switch in a CSS file to determine the intensity of that weather condition (That’s right, PHP inside CSS- the way a badass works).

This PHP plus MySQL tutorial, divided into several easy to understand lessons, has been written for everyone interested in learning to create database driven websites using PHP and MySQL. This PHP tutorial has been written in an easy to understand language so as to enable every reader learn these powerful tools quickly and easily.

Test driven development is a development process that is exactly what it sounds like, we develop our applications driven by a number of different tests. This involves writing all your tests up front before any development has taken place. At the start this will seem strange as all the tests are going to fail but then we can develop our application