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What software do you use to create your personal website?
What software do you use to create your personal website? Do you write your own or use something like wordpress or Joomla?

Automatically Upgrade Plugins for Your Wordpress Blog
Wordpress blogs include the option to automatically upgrade plugins. Is this a good thing to use?

Should I Upgrade my PHP Software?
Sometimes the PHP programs you are running, as well as PHP itself are updated. Should you upgrade or not?

Free PHP Script Directories
A listing of Free PHP Scripts and websites that provide them

What is PHP Used For?
What is PHP Used For? Answers to this new programmer question.

How to change a column's size or type in MySQL
How to change a column's size or type in MySQL

How to Change a Column Name in MySQL
How to change the name of a column in a MySQL database

IF - Using IF in PHP
IF - We use if in PHP to make a decision

Create Links in PHP
How to create links in PHP

Search and Submit Free PHP Scripts to our Directory
A listing of free PHP scripts to use on your website. Add your own scripts, or download other people's scripts!

PHP Error Reporting
It is a lot easier to know what went wrong with your PHP script if you have a helpful error message instead of just a blank screen. This tutorial teaches you how to turn on error reporting.

Choose Full Post or Excerpt
You can use this code to choose which of your WordPress posts will show as excerpts and which will show as full posts by defining custom fields.

Creating Stardates with PHP
How to use calculate the star date (like the stardates on star trek) using PHP.

Wordpress Blogging Software
Wordpress is popular PHP based blogging software. Learn how to use it here.

Detect a User's IP Address
Record a user's IP address using this free PHP script.

Random Numbers
How to generate a random number using PHP

Random Numbers
How to generate a random number using PHP

Geometry Functions in PHP
PHP Functions that deal with geometry, and how to use them in your programming

PHP File Upload Security Ideas
Allowing users to upload files to your website poses security risks. Here are some ideas to help protect yourself.

Software Development Stages
If you plan to release your scripts to the public, they usually go through several stages before they final release.

Formatting Your PHP
How to make your PHP pages pretty with formatting

Make Addslashes () More Univeral
How to make a function that works to addslashes when magic quotes is off, and not add them when it is on so it works for all users despite configuration.

Merry Christmas
The holiday version of the classic "Hello World" turned into "Merry Christmas" using the PHP print and echo functions.

When Is Thanksgiving?
How to calculate when Thanksgiving day in the USA falls using a PHP script

When is Columbus Day?
Columbus Day falls on the second Monday of October every year. So when is it this year? You can used PHP to determine it's date.