This article is intended for the experienced PHP programmer, interested in writing applications using XML. It assumes that you are familiar with XML's syntax and advantages. More info

Have a large MySQL dataset that you would like to display on your website, but don't want to bog down your users' connections with large HTML renderings? More info

Eocene is a simple and easy to use Object Oriented Web development framework for PHP. It is based on the Front Controller design pattern and the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. It incorporates many proven software development practices to provide a foundation for building Web applications. More info

This arcticle introduces Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP. I will show you how to code less and better by using some OOP concepts and PHP tricks. Good luck! More info

An articles that will show you how to develop a simple search engine for your website using PHP and MySQL. More info

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In the last few years, XML has received great media attention, and most languages support the parsing and extraction of data from XML documents. Besides being a great three-letter anacronym to sprinkle on your resumé, XML is actually a useful data storage structure for PHP programmers. More info

When interacting with a database, functions are called that are common to every transaction; functions to establish a connection, execute the query and then close the connection. This article shows how to create functions that will eliminate this redundancy. We will create a Select function to retrieve data, an Insert function to insert data, an Update function to update data and a Delete function to remove data. More info

OK, so you've heard all about it, you think you've got your head around it. Everyone you speak to says it's the way real developers develop. How do you do it? What's in it for you? And how the hell do you do it with PHP? More info

PHP's XML functions allow you to specify three functions that will handle the data in the XML file. One handles opening tags, one hands the data between tags, and the third handles the ending tags. Based on the name of the tags it gets passed you can then manipulate the data however you please. To begin with you need to look at your XML document and find out what tags are in the file. In our slashdot file we have STORY, TITLE, URL, TIME, AUTHOR, DEPARTMENT, TOPIC, COMMENTS, SECTION, and IMAGE. In some cases you would have attributes, and example is HREF is an attribute to A in HTML. PHP has an extremely cool way of handling attributes automagically. More info