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Angela's PHP / MySQL Blog May 2006 Archive

By Angela Bradley, About.com Guide to PHP / MySQL

Getting started with PHP

Wednesday May 31, 2006
Learning PHP can be an overwhelming experience, but it doesn't have to be. Learning a sturdy base of PHP skills is actually not as challenging as you might think. ... Read More

MySQL Record of Images

Tuesday May 30, 2006
Recently qamarulhuda posted in our forum: "I know how to submit data into a mySQL table through a form. Now I want to upload the image file to the remote ... Read More

5 Star Rating

Thursday May 25, 2006
Yesterday Chesso19 posted in our web forum: "I've been trying to make a basic rating system that allows a user to click on one of five images, each representing a ... Read More

Creating Thumbnails with GD

Wednesday May 24, 2006
It is very common for image galleries (and a variety of other programs) to create a small version of a graphic (a thumbnail) to show the user a preview of ... Read More

Uploading Files with PHP

Tuesday May 23, 2006
You're in a hurry to show a friend a photo you just took, and instead of opening up your FTP program and uploading it you just whip over to ImageShack ... Read More

phpMyAdmin 2.8.1 Released

Monday May 22, 2006
A new version of phpMyAdmin, 2.8.1, was released this weekend. This version was strictly to update security and fix bugs from the previous release. If you want to ... Read More

Execute PHP from a .html File

Wednesday May 17, 2006
Usually when we run PHP, we put it in a file with a .php extension. Sometimes however, we need to execute PHP code on a .html page. The ... Read More

A Unique ID

Monday May 15, 2006
I'm sure it's happened to you before: you sign up for a site and they generate you a unique user ID to use. One way to do this ... Read More

Choosing a PHP Script

Thursday May 11, 2006
A lot of people who don't know PHP (and a lot that do!) use scripts written by other authors on their websites. But how do you decided what script ... Read More

Do You Backup Your Database?

Tuesday May 9, 2006
As a webmaster you probably have a copy of most of your website's files on your computer. If something goes wrong you can just re-upload the files and your ... Read More

Clicking Offsite

Monday May 8, 2006
Using a bit of code and a MySQL database, it is possible to count how many users click off your page, and to what page they are headed. But ... Read More

Logging In

Friday May 5, 2006
On any given day you probably login and logout of several different sites you visit. Forums, blogs, dating sites, email, etc... they all contain a login page you need ... Read More

PHP Cookies

Tuesday May 2, 2006
Every time I go to post in my blog, the admin link appears to allow me post a new entry. But how does it know to show that to ... Read More

Combining Tables with SQL

Monday May 1, 2006
Often data contained within two different tables of your MySQL database can share a common field that can be used to 'Join' the data. When using SELECT, you can ... Read More
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