PHP Tutorials — Basics

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

Even after using PHP for years, we stumble upon functions and features that we did not know about. Some of these can be very useful, yet underused. Not all of us have read the manual and the function reference from cover to cover! In this tutorial we will discuss some PHP functions that are rarely used but help out alot.

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

10 common regular expression for data validation

I'm been building a system of my own for a while now, and thaught of sharing some code with you. I'm building some kind of community, with users and stuff. In most systems, you need to have configuration parameters, that you can easily change, and especially if more people will be administrating the site, so you can build a web form to handle the parameters.

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.

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

So I'm going to show you how to create an extremely simple AJAX chat using jQuery and PHP. It is not very usable but can be easily upgraded to a full featured chat. I tried to keep it as simple as possible.

Learn the absolute basics of programming PHP.

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.