This is not a new trick, and I certainly did not invent it. It’s been used before, but when I went searching for information about how to do it, it was hard to find. In fact, I finally had to ask a friend who is much better at PHP than I am to help me (I only recently learned to spell P-H-P). This is really basic stuff, but for a lot of us, basic is what we need to get on with our projects.

When I reflect on my past experience as a web programmer, there are many things that I know now that I didn’t know ten years ago. The learning process was valuable, but I could have been at a different spot today as a PHP web programmer if I knew these things earlier. Sometimes you don’t have the info when it would benefit you the most, but my hope is that this list will give you something to reflect on.

A function to count comments or trackbacks or pingbacks or trackabacks and pingbacks together.

Here's how to remove the Powered By Boonex footer from Dolphin CMS.

How to change your methods name in a url. Its an easy tutorial for Codeigniter

Google App Engine offers native support only to Java and Python. This made many web developers unhappy as they were using PHP for programming. It is little known fact that you can actually deploy PHP applications in Google App Engine. This edition of techblog is dedicated entirely for explaining this.

Usage of PHP functions is so easy and practical. However, usually we need to write our own functions while we are making our applications. I try to explain usage of user defined functions and using optional arguments with them...

How to use PHP to make changes to CSS files. Including some examples such as making your own grid-based layout, and making time-sensitive CSS files.

Leveraging Spl in the right way is crucial to avoid compromising the design of an application and taking advantage of the most portable php library at the same time. A wide use of the basic language structures is often the sign of a missing concept in the domain model. Passing around arrays and Iterators may be harmful if the implicit objects they represent do not fit with the operations available on them. We may have collections where elements can be removed, or repeated, in spite of business rules; queues and stacks that allow random access to all their elements, and so on.

Software development is the land of egos and opinions—and it seems that, no matter how bad we try, we’re always doing things the wrong way. But why?

After having to review a horrible, bloated mess of PHP code, I figured it was time to write some notes and tips on PHP security. Quick tips on filtering, validation, CSRF and XSS.

PHP News System (phpns) is an open source CMS that enables you to embed dynamic content into an existing website. It allows you to design your website however you like, and squeezes content into your design, wherever you like, with one line of code. PHP News System requires PHP, MySQL and ability to change file permissions on the server.

A tutorial showing you how to install the famous CMS PHP script Ez Publish.

Slides of the first day of the web conference confoo 2010

Last week we asked you to share your favorite VPN tool, then we rounded up the top five contenders for a vote. Now we

GetSimple is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that utilizes XML for data storage, has excellent user interface and is really easy to learn. GetSimple requires PHP 5.1.3+ and has been tested with Apache web server. Installation is a snap, all you need to do is upload files to your server and you are ready.

Simple tutorial to show how you can quickly get latitude, longitude of an address using google's geocoding api.