Introduction to PHP

Server side includes are frequently used to give your entire site the same look and feel, as well as allowing you to produce more modular code. Join Peter as he explains this, and shows you how!

Ever wanted to redirect users using PHP? Using HTTP headers? Conditionally? Peter explains all this and more, in order to help improve your site and coding.

The basic use of single and double quoted strings in PHP, which to use when and the general difference between the two.

Learn PHP through lessons and examples that are based on plausible real world applications. Also contained on tizag.com is a MySQL tutorial to aid you in your PHP/MySQL knowledge.

There are a lot of tutorials out there that tell you about some basic PHP stuff; however, none of them tell you how to take it to the next level. In this tutorial I explain how you can learn PHP quickly.

PHP, the PHP Hypertext Processor, is an open source server-side scripting language for Web servers, which provides a real alternative to ASP, ColdFusion, Mod_Perl or JSP if your aim is to provide dynamic Web pages. Dynamic Web pages are pages which interact with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customized information - which may vary each time and which may be based on a form they've just filled in, or on information extracted from a database or some other external source. Typical applications include e-commerce, online newspapers, visitors' books, ticketing systems, project management, and other groupware projects. The traditional way to produce this type of dynamic page is via CGI scripts, but these are separate programs which must be executed as a new process for each page hit, so they scale badly and rapidly become memory and processor hogs as server load increases...

It covers all the basic in neat and clean manner. Its recommended for beginner and those that have just passed the beginners mark. Also good for those who want to brush up on the basics. Its intent was to make PHP welcoming for the beginners and not to make the whole intro sound too technical...

This tutorial is specially written for PHP newbies who need to start writing PHP. It contains link to installing PHP for beginners too.

Basic guide to help experience HTML webmaster getting started with PHP. It defines PHP, contrast it agains HTML, and provided a few simple examples. The tutorial also briefly cover how to set up Apache and PHP on your own server.

This online manual is meant to serve as a place to start for people not familiar with PHP. It covers the basics of variables, forms, sending email and MySQL databases.

PHP is a freely available, HTML-embedded scripting language that lets you embed special tags to create your script right in an HTML file. PHP can be integrated into the Web server itself, eliminating the need to start up a separate CGI program to generate the Web page, which can lead to dramatic performance increases on some systems. This article describes how PHP came into existence, introduces some PHP basics, then shares some useful, instructive scripts to get you started.

This is a short introductory tutorial on PHP by the official PHP Web site. Explains what it is, what it looks like, what it can be used for. Also includes external links to other useful PHP-related sites.