Creating a Simple Joomla Template
June 24, 2009 - by InformIt
This we take a crack at building our own Joomla template.

A Quick Look at Joomla! Templates
June 18, 2009 - by InformIt
Joomla!is an emerging open source CMS with a lot of potential and support. In this lesson we look at Joomla! templates and tableless design.

CSS And PHP: Switching Themes
June 09, 2009 - by Marc Plotz
Create truly dynamic style sheets that your users can choose, using CSS and PHP.

Drupal Basics: Modules, Blocks and Roles
June 04, 2009 - by Jamar Bibbs
In the last part of our series, you learned how to install Drupal and configure the software to get your site up and running. This week we delve into Drupal modules, where we'll show you how to move blocks around and teach you how to be a role model.

PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR)
June 02, 2009
Learn about PEAR, a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP packages.

Drupal Basics
by Jamar Bibbs

Drupal is an open source CMS that could be the answer to your sites CMS woes. Today we'll show you how to get Drupal up and running on your server and even add a little style.

Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting
by Konstantin Kdfer, Emma Hogbin - Prentice Hall

Learn more about Drupal as we dig in to front end of this exciting open source CMS.

Excerpt from Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting.
by Konstantin Kdfer, Emma Hogbin - Prentice Hall

Drupal is a popular open source CMS with a ton of plug-ins and today we'll learn how to connect the dots and build context-sensitive page templates with this powerful CMS.

Handling files with PHP4 - Part 2
Ian Gilfillan

Last months installment covered using PHP for opening and closing files, displaying, reading and writing to files. This month we'll look at moving the current position in the file, copying and deleting files, getting more information about files, and uploading files.

Handling files with PHP4 - Part1
Ian Gilfillan

Basic file handling is a fundamental part of programming. Even now, with powerful and easy to use Database Management Systems available to manage your files, manipulating files in your own code is often necessary. Part 1 of this article explains how to read, write and process files with PHP4.

Date and Time in PHP
Ian Gilfillan

PHP's date functions are powerful, flexible, and surprisingly easy to use. This article guides you through the functions, explaining the concept of a Unix timestamp, which is at the heart of most of the functions, and shows you how easy it is to master these often-misused functions.

Instant PHP 4
McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

Use PHP 4 to create calendars, shopping carts, WAP pages and much more using this practical cookbook-style guide. Packed with ready-to-use applications and organized by application type, this is an ideal resource for when you need quick and easy access to hands-on information.

Instant PHP 4 - Part 2
McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

Use PHP 4 to create calendars, shopping carts, WAP pages and much more using this practical cookbook-style guide. Packed with ready-to-use applications and organized by application type, this is an ideal resource for when you need quick and easy access to hands-on information. This weeks installment covers Managing the Login, Database Monitoring, and Database Administration. From McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media.

Instant PHP 4 - Part 3
McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

Use PHP 4 to create calendars, shopping carts, WAP pages and much more using this practical cookbook-style guide. Packed with ready-to-use applications and organized by application type, this is an ideal resource for when you need quick and easy access to hands-on information. This weeks installment covers Table Administration, User Administration, and SQL Query Execution . From McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media.

Maintaining state with PHP4 sessions
Ian Gilfillan

PHP4 comes with a complete set of sessioning functions. Follow along with Ian Gilfillan to learn how maintain state using the sessioning functions.

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL - Part 2 : Case Study: Adding Sessions to the Winestore

Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and practical information on creating web database applications. This weeks installment shows how to use sessions to improve the user interaction with the client entry <form> The improvements focus on the interaction when the <form> is submitted and fields don't validate. From O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and practical information on creating web database applications. The focus of this chapter is on the session management provided by PHP. However, other techniques to keep state are briefly discussed, including the use of cookies. From O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Professional PHP4 Programming: Part 1
Wrox Press

This manuscript is an abridged version of Chapter 14. This first installment looks at LDAP components, applications, and models. This book is a resource for working PHP developers who want to take their skills to the next level.

Professional PHP4 Programming - Part 2
Wrox Press

This weeks installment discusses some features which LDAP supports but are seldom used except by administrators or advanced users. Covered are Installing and Configuring an LDAP Server, Running the slapd Server, The PHP LDAP API, Search Functions, and more! From Wrox Press.

Professional PHP4 Programming - Part 3
Wrox Press

Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This weeks installment discusses "A Sample LDAP Application in PHP". From Wrox Press.

Beginning PHP4
Wrox Press

This abridged version of Chapter 16 from the Wrox Press book Beginning PHP4 covers how to create images on the fly. By the end of the chapter you will have built a practical application using these methods and concepts.

Beginning PHP4 - Part 2
Wrox Press

This abridged version of Chapter 16 from the Wrox Press book Beginning PHP4 covers how to create images on the fly. By the end of the chapter you will have built a practical application using these methods and concepts.

Beginning PHP4 - Part 3
Wrox Press

This manuscript is an abridged version of Chapter 16 from the Wrox Press book Beginning PHP4. This installment shows how to build a framework, draw the layout and modify the script, as needed.

Beginning PHP4 - Part 4
Wrox Press

This manuscript is an abridged version of Chapter 16 from the Wrox Press book Beginning PHP4. This final installment shows how to manipulate graphics and use the ImageColorTransparent() Function.

Debugging PHP: Did You Remember to "Dot All Your I's and Cross All Your T's"?
Michael M Krznaric

So you've finally managed to install PHP. Anxious to use your new tool, you find the print function in the manual, write your own hello world, load the page and the dreaded "Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/test.php on line 2" error pops up in front of you. You know the scenario, read on to learn the fixes....

Templates - why and how to use them in PHP3
Reprint from PHPBuilder.com

Are you faced with the task of creating a site which should be programmed by a coder (namely you) and designed by a designer? Need to make life easy for both of you? Sascha Schumann will show you how to make your site customizable using PHP3s FastTemplate!

Debugging PHP: Did You Remember to "Dot All Your I's and Cross All Your T's"?
Michael M Krznaric

So you've finally managed to install PHP. Anxious to use your new tool, you find the print function in the manual, write your own hello world, load the page and the dreaded "Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/test.php on line 2" error pops up in front of you. You know the scenario, read on to learn the fixes....

Templates - why and how to use them in PHP3
Reprint from PHPBuilder.com

Are you faced with the task of creating a site which should be programmed by a coder (namely you) and designed by a designer? Need to make life easy for both of you? Sascha Schumann will show you how to make your site customizable using PHP3s FastTemplate!

Another Look At "Building Your Website With Cached Dynamic Modules"
Reprint from PHPBuilder.com

Spencer D. Mindlin builds on the "Building your website with cached dynamic modules" foundation, adding new functionalities.

Welcome to PHP
Reprint from Intranet Design Magazine

Early era web developers with dynamic ambitions had little more than server side includes in their toolbelts -- it was a dark era indeed. The need for embedded server-parsed scripting languages was apparent, and Microsoft went after this hunger with their ASP, or Active Server Pages, technology. The concept behind ASP, and all other embedded server-parsed languages, is premised upon embedding programming code within the HTML that makes up a web page. The web server interprets and executes this code, replacing the code with its results, and delivering the resulting web page to the browser. Popular though ASP became, many developers continued wanting for a more stable and less proprietary solution: enter PHP, an open-source server-parsed embedded scripting language.

Building your website with cached dynamic modules
Reprint from PHPBuilder.com

In today's web-world the emphasis is on load speed and easy maintenance. Learn how to construct a website on the fly using dynamic modules which can be cached for improved performance.

Slapping together a search engine for your database is easy with PHP and MySQL
Reprint from PHPBuilder.com

Normal site searches just don't fill the bill when most of your content resides in a database. You can't do anything useful like using a 'searchword' query; it just doesn't bring back relevant results. There has to be a better way, and indeed there is, with a few easy steps. This article details how to slap one together.

So you want to use a database in your site?
Reprint from PHPBuilder.com

Chances are that at some point in the life of a web site you will need to be creating content on request. Join Jesús Castagnetto to learn how to create the database in mSQL and connect to it using PHP.

PHP, MySQL and Images
Reprint from PHPBuilder.com

With PHP, mySQL and a little savvy, you can build a working database for Joe's Auto Sales, or even for your own site! Follow along with William Samplonius to learn how.

Session Management and Authentication with PHPLIB
Reprint from PHPBuilder.com

Let's face it, web pages aren't designed for interaction with users. At one time or another, you've probably found yourself needing to know what user you are dealing with, and some information about that user. But how do you do it on the web? There are many ways, but most of them are either error prone, or serious security risks. Passing around form data from page to page can easily be sniffed, and even more easily forged. What is a webmaster to do? Join Chad Cunningham to learn how to use PHPLIB for session management and user authentication.