Development

This article by Tim Perdue at PHPBuilder.com offers helpful guide to some of the best practices in PHP coding style. Topics covered: Indenting, Control Structures, Function Calls, Using Comments, PHP Tags, and Strings.

This article discusses three basic steps that can be taken to avoid creating bad code: ensuring that you can trust your input by verifying the input you receive from users, manipulating that input data carefully, and providing the appropriate people with secure, reliable access to that data.

The built-in COM functionality of PHP4 is quite attractive for some of us programming in the win32 environment. So far, there is not much documentation on the subject. This short article will explain how to use COM in real PHP4 programming with three examples using MS office 2000 Word and Excel programs and the Adobe Distiller program.

This tutorial describes how to build a basic admin interface to allow you to add and delete users from the browser instead of having to Telnet into the mySQL monitor and do it manually. Main function dealt here is to create a dynamic drop down list populated with usernames in the MySQL database.

This article covers several useful topics on PHP programming from basics to working with database. Main topics include: mod_php - Hello World, PHP Programming, Maintaining State on a Single Page, Maintaining State Between Multiple Pages, PHP Data Enabled App Using PostgreSQL, and Installing phplib in a Postgres Environment.

This 4-page tutorial guides you through step-by-step how to pass arrays and using checkboxes/select boxes in PHP.

This article talks about a technique for debugging CGI programs written with the PHP scripting language. Topics include: Creating the Debug Class, Testing the Debug Class, Using the Debug Class, Production Debugging, and more.