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6 May 2011

Building a content management system from scratch

A few people have asked me for links for tutorials on making a cms or have asked me to write one, so I've put together a tutorial on making a cms from the very beginning. The cms
6 May 2011

Newsletter Tutorial Part 2 Sending out HTML and Plain Text Emails

Part 1 (Newsletter Tutorial Part 1 The Signup) looked at setting up a database table to store email address and names and creating a signup for to collect the data.
6 May 2011

Importing CSV (spreadsheet) data into a MySQL Database using PHP

Working with CSV files is very common practice, as such you'll want to add data from spreadsheets into a database, this tutorial will show you how to do just that. For this tutorial where going to work
6 May 2011

Delete rows from a MySQL database with a confirmation

Delete rows from a MySQL database with a confirmation This tutorial shows you how to delete rows from your database and uses a JavaScript powered confirmation basically when you press delete a confirmation message will appear asking
6 May 2011

Login Script with Validation

A login script tutorial to log users into your database driven site using sessions
6 May 2011

Article pagination with OOP (split article into pages)

When you have a long article you may want to split the article into pages. This is easy to do on a static page but what if you have a dynamic page if would be better to
6 May 2011

How to ping search engines with curl

when you add new story or update an existing one it may take a few weeks for search engine bots to re-index your site, I've noticed however that some sites get re-index very shortly after adding or
5 May 2011

Searching with PHP and MySQL beyond LIKE

Ever wanted to add a search feature to your php & MySQL driven web site? Then your in luck this tutorial shows you how!
5 May 2011

Registration script with Validation

In this tutorial I will explain how to create a user registration script along with validation.
5 May 2011

Change file permissions dynamically with php

A tutorial to change file permissions dynamically with php
5 May 2011

Delete folders from server using PHP

A tutorial to create a function to delete folder and all sub folders from the server.