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Learn PHP

PHP can be a powerful tool on your web site and learning it isn't as hard as you might think. Using our informative tutorials, even a beginner with no programming experience can start learning PHP and putting it to use right away.

How to use Arrays in PHP

How to setup and access an array and it's elements using PHP.

Getting started with PHP

An absolute beginner's guide to writing and understanding their first PHP program.

Changing the capitalization of stings

How to change the capitalization of a sting using PHP including making it all capitals, all lower case, each word capitalized, and each string capitalized.

Learning PHP Checklist

Are you ready to start learning PHP Programming? Take a look at this quick check list before you get started to make sure you're good to go!

Create Links in PHP

How to create links in PHP

How a computer makes a decision

How to make decisions in PHP programs using if/else and switch loops

Print vs Echo - Do you use Print or Echo?

Do you use print or echo in your PHP scripts? Users give their answers to this PHP question.

Detect a User's IP Address

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

Loops in PHP

A loop is a series of commands that will continue to repeat over and over again untill a condition is met. Learn about different types of loops in PHP.

Random Numbers

How to generate a random number using PHP

Random Numbers

How to generate a random number using PHP

Formatting Your PHP

How to make your PHP pages pretty with formatting

Getting Started with PHP

Just the essentials you need to learn PHP

PHP with HTML

How to embed php into HTML, or put HTML inside PHP so you can use both on the same page of your website.

PHP Time and Calendars

PHP functions and scripts related to the use and creation of calendars, or dates in PHP.

PHP and Flat File Data Storage

How to use PHP commands to interact with flat file text (txt) documents.

Learn PHP - A Beginner's Guide to PHP Programing

Learn PHP from a simple web based tutorial. Explore basic PHP syntax, using variables, operators and operands, and the use of conditional statements.

Learn PHP - Use WHILE, FOR and FOREACH Loops

Learn to use the three types of loops - WHILE, FOR, and FOREACH loops in PHP programing to process data.

Learn PHP - How to Use and Write Functions

Explore the use of preset PHP functions, with a further explanation on the date function. Then learn to create your own custom PHP functions.

Learn PHP - Collecting and Processing Data from Forms

Collect data from HTML forms to process with PHP

Learn PHP - Redirection Script

HP redirection script to transfer users from one web page URL on your site to a new page URL or web site

Learn PHP - PHP Information

Learn more about the version of PHP your server is running using the php info command to see your version, path, and specific settings.

Learn PHP - Countdowns

Create a simple countdown in PHP using the mktime function

Learn PHP - Math Functions

A list of commonly used math functions in PHP, and what they do.

Learn PHP - Random Numbers

Generating a random number in PHP with the rand () function

Learn PHP - What Is My IP?

This is a very short easy to understand tutorial about how do create a 'What is my IP' style script, to look up the users IP address as they visit the site

Learn PHP - Using $_SERVER in PHP

The difference between $_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’], $_SERVER[’SCRIPT_NAME’], and $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

Learn PHP - Lookup Browser

$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] is used to retrieve information about the users browser and computer operating system, using PHP. Learn how with our tutorial.

Learn PHP - Rounding and Formatting Numbers

How to round and formatt numbers in PHP

Your First PHP Script

A very basic walkthrough of everything you need to make your first PHP script, in simple straight forward terms.

Using Notepad for PHP

How to use Notepad to create and save PHP files

Using TextEdit for PHP

How to use TextEdit to create and save PHP on your Apple Macintosh (Mac) Computer.

Redirect Old Pages to New URLs

Redirect pages from their old URL to a new URL using a line of PHP

Finding the HTTP_REFERER

How to find a page's referrer using HTTP_REFERER in PHP.

Hello World

How to write a "Hello World" script, the most basic of all computer programs, in PHP.

A Quick PHP Variable Reference

Everything you've ever wanted to know about PHP variables in an easy to understand, free tutorial.

How and Why to Comment Your PHP Code

How and why to comment your code in PHP

Tips for Making User Friendly Scripts

Some tips for making your programs user friendly

Learn More About Your Server's PHP

The phpinfo () is used to gather lot of information about what is running on your PHP server.

Finding the Document Root

Often when installing scripts you need to know the document root. This simple script can give you that information.

PHP Author Notes

Author notes that a PHP author should include in the files that the create.

Using PHP and Javascript with Python

How to use PHP and Javascript with Python instead of using CGI

The Difference Between Cookies and Sessions

What is the difference between sessions and cookies in PHP?

Automatically display when a file was last modified on your website

How to show the date a file was last modified using PHP and the filemtime function. This is great for automatically dating time sensitive data on your website.

Using Comparison Operators in PHP

How to use comparison operators in PHP to compare greater than, less then, equal to and more.

How to prevent an endless PHP loop from breaking your program

How to prevent endless loops in PHP programs

Creating a timestamp for any given date in the past or future

How to use the mktime function in PHP to generate a time stamp of a given time and date in the past or future.

How to create a function in PHP

Learn how to create a function in PHP

How to define an array in PHP

How to create an array in PHP

How to include your HTML in your PHP

A PHP translation of your HTML

Updating your pages using SSI

How to quickly and easily update the copyrights on all your pages at the same time for the new year.

Your PHP code can't be viewed by viewing the document source

You can't see PHP code when you view a document source, you only see the HTML it outputs.

Skipping over chunks of code in PHP using Goto

How to skip over a section of code in PHP using goto.

Which loop is best for your project?

How to use loops in your PHP code to repeat a section of code over and over until a condition is met.

Learning PHP part 2 - All about variables

Learning PHP part 2 - All about variables, how to assign then, how to use them, etc

Understanding Arrays in PHP

Understanding arrays in PHP and how we use them.

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