We can use mysql_connect and mysql_select_db functions to create our connections. For closing the connections there is mysql_close function. These are basic functions of managing connections in PHP. There are also a lot of classes made by developers for free.

In here, we will discuss a few method that we can use to disable Wordpress admin menu from displaying and accessing by valid users.

PHP ( Hypertext Preprocessor ) was released in the 1995. PHP was originally known as Personal Home Page written as a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) in C Language by Danish/Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf. Lerdorf initially created these Personal Home Page Tools to replace a small set of Perl scripts he had been using to maintain his personal homepage and was originally designed to replace a set of Perl scripts to maintain his Personal Home Pages

A list of books which may help users learn Object Oriented PHP, as well as provide developers with a reference book if they get stuck on a solution in the future.

Custom jQuery accordion for vertical navigation with subpages for wordpress ready to be pasted in a template.

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.

I have been inspired by a post by Soon Hui to write about my mistakes. I have evolved much on the programming side during these years, but my biggest mistakes have been social and economic: dealing with other people. Thus, I have collect a list of my errors committed as a php freelance developer.

Ben Nadel reviews the jQuery UI 1.7 book - Have a look! "This weekend, I finished reading jQuery UI 1.7 [The User Interface Library For jQuery] by Dan Wellman (released by PACKT Publishing). It's a follow-up to his jQuery UI 1.6 book, which I reviewed in early 2009. Read more

Which is your favorite variable troubleshooting function, print_r() or var_dump()?

Do you want to use an API but you are too lazy to write your own code to handle the requests? If you code in PHP as I do, then you will definitely need these classes. By using the classes listed here you will be able of using a great number of web services with an easy and documented way.

Its sometimes necessary as a developer to log and track data as it is processed either to debug or to keep a simple record of maybe who’s logged in or out of your site. You could easily do this by accessing a MySQL database and adding a row, but you then have to create and maintain that database. So today I’m going to run through the steps to writing and reading a .txt log file.

Processing user-supplied form data can be fraught with errors. Not so with the Zend Framework! This tutorial shows you how to use the Zend Framework's Zend_Validate component to easily and conveniently validate complex form data.

The Zend Framework community needed a book covering version 1.8+. Here's a book. Should you buy this book?