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 ...

phPlate is a very simple template program designed to make maintaining a web site as easy as possible. There are zillions of other similar programs, but I thought I'd release this one anyway. phPlate is free / Open Source software released under the GPL. phPlate has been tested with PHP 4.

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 ...

PIG, the PHP Interest Group, is an ICQ interest group. ICQ is an instant messaging program that lets you see who on your list is online, chat with them in real time, exchange file and web site addresses in real time, and send messages in real time. PIG was created to gather people who use PHP an ...

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 ...

This tutorial teaches you how to write and use classes, to make your PHP code more flexible and easier to manage. The tutorial guides you through the construction of a simple, security-related class that performs some basic security functions for a web site: checking user logons. The class impl ...

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 ...

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 ...

DX0 is a PHP library that generates Dynamic HTML specific to the visitor's browser. DX0 focuses on generating tight, compact DHTML. DX0 allows classes to be added which create reusable cross-browser widgets automatically customized to the browser. IE4+, NS4+, and Mozilla M14+ have been tested an ...

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.