PHP Tutorials — Basics

Google have finally made an API available for Google Analytics although it's currently in beta and the specs are subject to change. I've been playing around this morning logging in using ClientLogin Username/Password Authentication with PHP and CURL and show how to do this here.

Sanitisation and Validation are important terms to understand when writing PHP applications.

Everyone makes errors and if you use PHP you will create bugs. The purpose of this tutorial is to give an introduction to debugging using PHP. You will learn basic ways to determine where problems occur as well as functions like var_dump().

10 common regular expression for data validation

This tutorial explains how to install Apache Web Server on Windows Vista.

In this tutorial you will learn how to build a PHP script that scrapes links from any web page. The lesson covers extracting content from a site using cURL, parsing the content with PHP's Dom functions, finding links using XPath queries, and storing the links in a MySQL database. Legal issues associated with scraping content is discussed at the end of the tutorial.

Web scrappers are simple programs that are used to extract certain data from the web. Usually the structure of the the pages is known so scrappers have reduced complexity compared to parsers and crawlers. In this tutorial we are going to create a simple parser that extract the title and favicon from any html page.

A detailed description how to use PHP strings and basic string manipulation functions.

How to build a good looking line or bar chart with PHP without using GD library.

Learn what sessions are and how to create, retrieve and delete sessions in PHP