PHP Tutorials — Basics

The new Web Platform Installer from Microsoft makes setting up PHP and PHP-based applications on Windows a breeze. Louis walks us through what’s available with this new tool and shows us how simple it is to start off with WordPress or Drupal on Windows with IIS.

This tutorial shows you how to use the SimplePie PHP library to display an RSS or Atom feed in under 10 lines of code. Source code included.

This tutorial shows you how to use PHP to return a JSON object to a client.

PHP is a widely used open source server side scripting language that is used to create dynamic and interactive web pages.

This free tutorial shows you how to use the YQL web service from PHP. Demo and source code included.

This free tutorial shows you how to display Gravitar images with PHP. Demo and source code included.

A simple guide explaining some of the basic error handling capabilities of PHP. Also features an error handling script that anyone can download and use. Some prior knowledge of PHP may be required.

This beginners Wordpress tutorial will teach you how to add a Download Button to the bottom of your Wordpress posts, with the ability to change the buttons destination URL on every post by using a Custom Field.

Supercharge Your CSS with PHP Under the Hood

This tutorial will teach you the basics of PHP and MySQL, as well as how to set up a local testing environment.