Simple tutorial showing how to use the function include for simplifying your Web page authoring. Useful for header and footer insertion for multiple pages.

When you run a database-driven website, it makes sense to generate pages on the fly. PHP, MySQL, and Apache let you do just that. But they don't make it pretty. How many times have you had to create a URL that looks like this: http://schmoop.com/snurk.php

Throughout two separate parts in this series, the author demonstrates step by step the fundamental principles of PHP in an original real-world Web site example. The Part 1 offers the basics of PHP and features a Webzine that includes an authors page wher.

Lets pretend you have 10 pages in your site with the same design and you want to change a link in your menu. You would have to edit all 10 pages, right? Nope, theres a much quicker way allowing you to edit just one file and it's not as hard as it sounds..

This tutorial will show you the basics of using PHP with some simple Javascripting methods to create a drop down menuing system for your site. This will teach you the simple tricks of using Javascripting with your PHP code in order to display simple yet e

One of the most powerful features of PHP is its ability to reduce the amount of site maintenance you need to do. By setting up a consistent site template, you can reduce the effort needed to create new pages, and you can also make it much easier to change

This tutorial will teach you have to make your site have the option to allow the users to choose the look and feel of the site using PHP, and MySQL wrapped around a HTML template. Doing this gives you more control of your site without having to recode all

Learn about the usefullness of cookies, what they can be used for, and also learn how to create a simple unique computer counter using cookies.

Cookies enabled web developers to produce more usable sites, by allowing temporary storage of commonly used information by the user. This can be beneficial in shopping carts, user logon systems and general site usage. Read on to find out how to use cookie

This tutorial explains the basic concept of cookies, and how to use them.

You may need to set cookies to remember certain information such as users, if they have visited or not, etc. etc.

Taken from chaper 6 of "PHP Essentials," this section contains several very basic PHP scripts using cookies and sessions.

Read this to brief tutorial to learn how to preserve language status beyond your web pages using PHP sessions and GET - POST variables. Also you can apply this tip to achive other goals switching the session variables.

With this tutorial you will learn how to create a user login script in PHP. It will also check the "user" session variable is empty and if the "loggedIn" session variable does not equal true. If any of those are a true statement, it will stop everything b

This document describes how to customize the session handlers in PHP4. It provides examples of how to write a fully functional session handler that works with DBM files and one that works with a MySQL database.

This is a basic sessions tutorial where the register globals are switched off.

To begin this tutorial in PHP sessions, you must first make sure that your web server (ie. apache) has the options to allow session with the configuration. Note: people using apache and php under a win32 enviorment must manually configure this option. To

Counters are used in many websites so that the webmaster will be able to see how many people come to their website. They are used throughout the web on numerous websites, sometimes all too common. I recommend not using a counter unless you have a decent w