To make things more interesting and to make it truly re-useable, I'm going to make it totally generic so we can use it again and again for differing file types.

This tutorial teaches you to initiate user authentication using PHP, and then to authenticate users by matching the value of the global variables , and to a list of valid usernames and passwords. The sample code included with this tutorial will show you how to use either hard-coded values, a fl ...

Remember that when you are working with XML it is a lot like working with a table in a database. You have a result index in the xml parser and a psuedo table in the XML document. Once you get over the differences you will be parsing in no time.

A browserdetecting script for PHP that decides wich files that should be included,

MTG (mtg.php) Generate HTML META tags suitable for inclusion in your HTML document.

If you haven't done your own shopping basket with PHP yet, you should be able to build one after reading this article. Even if you have a basket already, some of the tips I provide here could help you improve your system.

PHP4 is packed with good features. One of the most popular is session variables. These are variables that persist throughout a session, as the user moves from page to page. Session variables are great holders of state information and other useful stuff.

Useful for "cleaning" form input that is to be viewed on a HTML page. Seems fairly safe, just enter the tags you want to allow in the array.

The purpose of this article is to address the apparently widespread wave of pessimism surrounding WAP technology and of its impending demise!

Figuring out where your hits are coming from and which pages are being viewed is not too difficult if you use a good log analyzer like Analog or something similar. But if you want to pull up reports on the fly at any time, you need to take a different route.