by: Mark Alexander Bain
One of the most powerful aspects of PHP is the ease with which a programmer can connect to a database and manipulate its contents. With just a few lines of code the developer can run a SQL query on the database and return the information to a the PHP application user.

by: John L
Most interactive websites nowadays require data to be presented dynamically and interactively based on input from the user. For example, a customer may need to log into a retail website to check his purchasing history. In this instance, the website would have stored two types of data in order for the customer to [...]

by: Mark Alexander Bain
One of the most important parts of building any web site is ensuring that all the web pages that it contains have a consistent look and feel. For example each page may require:

the same header to be displayed
the same footer to be displayed
sames links to be displayed down the side of the [...]

by: Guy Lecky-Thompson
Introduction
As a precursor to the PHP and MySQL programming tutorial, it is worth understanding that one of the most powerful uses for PHP and MySQL is as a Content Management System (or CMS). The CMS is the backbone of a good interactive web site, and all the top publishing systems, from Drupal to [...]

by: Mark Alexander Bain
PHP (Personal Home Page or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) has been around since 1994 and forms the heart of many web sites - and with good reason; if nothing else then the way in which PHP handles any variables passed to it from other web pages makes it well worth using.
It’s easier to [...]