Holiday Countdown!
Monday June 30, 2008
Do you have a website that deals with a specific event such as a holiday, wedding or birthday? You can use a PHP based countdown on your website to ... Read More
Function Friday: Uniqid () Function
Friday June 27, 2008
If you need create a unique ID, the the Uniqid () function is for you. You can use it to create a 13 or 23 character unique ID, with ... Read More
Creating a Database
Wednesday June 25, 2008
One of the great things about PHP is it's ability to interact with MySQL with ease. But before you can start interacting with a database you need to create ... Read More
Why Use PHP?
Monday June 23, 2008
Do you have an HTML website that you are thinking about using PHP on? Not quite sure? Check out our Top Three Reasons to Use PHP to help ... Read More
Function Friday: Include () Function
Friday June 20, 2008
The include () function is a very useful PHP function on pages with a lot of repeated information. Include () is used to include the contents of another file ... Read More
PHP in an HTML File
Wednesday June 18, 2008
Usually when you create a webpage to run PHP the files have the .php extension. If you have already created your website with a .htm or .html extension on ... Read More
What Version of PHP am I Running?
Monday June 16, 2008
If you are unsure what version of PHP you are running and need to know, there is a very simple way to check. The phpinfo () function will not ... Read More
Function Friday: Number_format () Function
Friday June 13, 2008
The Number_format () function is used to format your numbers to use commas and decimals. You can also set custom separators for your numbers, so for example if you ... Read More
Connecting to MySQL
Wednesday June 11, 2008
If you plan on using PHP and MySQL together, the first thing you need to learn is how to connect to your database from PHP. You can open a ... Read More
Create a Link from a Database
Monday June 9, 2008
If you are able to retrieve information from your database but are unsure how to link it, you may be surprised to see how easy it actually is. All ... Read More
Function Friday: Imagerotate () Function
Friday June 6, 2008
The imagerotate () function is used to rotate an image using the GD Library. You can rotate the JPG, PNG or GIF image by any amount of degrees that ... Read More
Comparison Operators
Wednesday June 4, 2008
Comparison operators are used to compare one number to another. For example you can check if two numbers are equal to each other. You can also check if ... Read More
Time Based Greetings
Monday June 2, 2008
You can use PHP to look up the current time and date. Using this information you can give your users different greetings. In our Time Based Greetings script, ... Read More