A rule-based system for developing sophisticated tables. You can loop over an array of colors (or colspan, or align, or whatever) by row or col an arbitrary number of times. Optionally use templates to reuse table designs.

On Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, you can use the system's semaphores and shared memory through PHP's sysvsem and sysvshm modules. Those modules are not available on the Win32 platform. phpWin32SxM is a solution for all those who want to use the functions that the modules sysvse ...

First off, for those of you who don't know what Cocoon is, check out http://xml.apache.org where you can download the source and read up on it. In short Cocoon is a suite of Java Servlets that sit on your server waiting for .xml pages and then - if applicable - it applies the relevant XSL transf ...

PHP lets you do a lot more than simply generating HTML content, it is also a great tool to dynamically generate images on-the-fly. For example, you can create buttons with text from a database create grapical displays of statistics from log files enhance business data with graphs and diagr ...

This tutorial teaches you how to process a simple feedback form. It records the date and time that the user logged into the system and saves this information, in addition to the user's name and email address, in several cookies. Upon subsequent logins, the code checks whether the user is a new o ...

A large portion of Web programming requires strings to be handled and generated, so knowing how to use and handle strings properly is extremely important for PHP programmers. This tutorial starts with the simple constructs used to create strings and moves through to more advanced techniques for ...

This particular design of web-based chat uses variables posted from a form, processes them into HTML and writes them to a file. Put the form and the message file in a frameset and you have something that looks reasonably like a BeSeen chat room. Of course the advantage is, our chat room can be a ...

The PHP scripting language's XML support has a few gaps, but you can fill them with Java objects in a pinch. In this article, find out what XML tools are available now for PHP developers looking to craft XML projects, and find out how to access Java objects until the PHP tool set matures.

ThatPHPware is the slashdot-like engine system that runs the Web site, atthat.com. It currently features news posting, discussion board, poll booth, user registration, and more. ThatPHPware uses a MySQL database on backend for all data handling.

This project is a rebuild of the Link Conservatory from the ground up. The new twist is that instead of just links, lots of different kinds of content can be added. This is useful for building sites like Slashdot, or any other magazine-type site.