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PHP 5 includes a powerful set of DOM manipulation classes that gives you full control over HTML and XML documents. This functionality behaves very similar to JavaScript's DOM manipulation engine. In this tutorial, we'll use the PHP DOMDocument class to load and modify an HTML5 template.

PHP 5 includes a powerful set of DOM manipulation classes that gives you full control over HTML and XML documents. This functionality behaves very similar to JavaScript's DOM manipulation engine. In this tutorial, we'll explore the DOMDocument class by generating an entire HTML5 page without writing a single bit of raw markup. This may not be practical for most applications, but it should give you a good idea of how the basic DOMDocument methods work.

With this tutorial you create website with CMS Made Simple without deepening in programming. Step by step: from website idea and setup through website design to of additional tools, like News, Guestbook, Contact forms, Photo Gallery, User Management. Enjoy building websites that simple way.

You'll learn how to embed and display third-party video within your content, using Embedded Media Field to automatically parse and display video from an editor's pasted URL from YouTube, Blip.TV, or other providers.

The basic concept in ExpressionEngine is that of a template. Go to any ExpressionEngine powered website and you will undoubtedly be looking at a template. Templates are what the outside world sees. At its most basic, a template in ExpressionEngine is a HTML (or CSS or JavaScript) file. If we wanted to, we could use a template exactly like a HTML file, without any problems. We could create an entire website without ever using any other part of ExpressionEngine. At the end, you will have a completely working weblog, and a great understanding of how you can use HTML and CSS in templates.

A common use for PHP is managing page templates. This makes is much easier to make changes to the layout on several pages by just editing one file. In this tutorial, I will explain some simple methods for managing templates in PHP. One involves using simple includes, and the others are slightly more advanced and flexible.

Learn how to create a website design templating system using php to be able to easily update different sections on your website by changing only few design files. The tutorial is designed for total beginners, so it is easy to understand and follow. Whether you have a small or a huge website, you know how much hassle and time it takes to upgrade your web site pages. The upgrade process becomes even more irritating when you make a change that needs to be upgraded on every page of your website; a good example of such a change is adding a button to the header or changing the copy right information in the footer of your website. In this tutorial I will show you how PHP comes to the rescue with only few lines of code. You can use this tutorial to be the basis to make your website easier to maintain and upgrade.

This script shows an example of a counter being incremented every time the page is loaded. This is achieved by reading a file line by line using the fgets function and exctracting the 2 fields (one for the date one for the counter). The file is then being updated. There is a live example.

Need help removing un-wanted characters from your php text form strings. Here's how to strip a string of all symbols and Non-Alphanumeric characters from your forms or database with ereg_replace.

This is a simple example of photo-gallery script, which uses MySQL table (BLOB field) to store images. Trivial password-protection, uploading and deleting images are supported. For Apache-version of PHP there is advanced browser-caching support (using If-Modified-Since header).

This is a short tutorial to help people understand how to easily install phpNuke. There are some issues that would arise on installation and this article is trying to explain them.

If you want to seperate PHP from HTML, you need some kind of template engine. vlibTemplate is a template engine. vlibDate easily adds and substract date values. You can format date values in different languages (german, english, french, spanish and so on). All examples are written in english. The tutorials are written in german and english. The tutorial will teach you how to use template variables, blocks and loop structures. It will give a short example of modular programming. Some simple and more complicated examples are provided. You will learn how to use vlibTemplate with MySQL, too.

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 yout HTML inside your PHP scripts.

BM's DeveloperWorks website has a nice tutorial on Midgard. Written by David Seager, a software engineer at IBM, the article describes setting up a basic Midgard site. The article also does a good job of setting up a general context for what Midgard is and how it works.

There are many different ways to create a template system in PHP. This tutorial will hopefully show you the basic understanding of this type of method.

Templates can bring order and structure to a web site. This article describes how templates can be used to control the page layout for a site that is currently composed of many pages of static HTML, using a popular template class and a new feature of PHP4.

Isn't it great to go to a web site and it appears as though it was designed just for you. This 3-page article will help you design a web site which makes visitors feel like it was designed just for them using PHP and MySQL.

Templates let you completely separate your PHP code from the HTML, which makes the HTML graphic designers very happy and keeps them from messing up your precious programming. This tutorial explains how to use PHPLIB Template in your PHP scripts. Main topics include: Using PHPLIB Template, Nested Templates, and Appending Template Text.

This tutorial explains how to identify IE4+ or NS4+ on a windows 32 bit platform (all else is "OtherBrowser") and include different html Web pages for different browser types using PHP.

User Personalization is a must-know and must-have for any site thats wants to make it somewhere. It customizes the user's experience, causing them to just plain 'like' your site better. Learn the basics of making such as system in PHP.