Tutorials by Biorust

Sometimes, when you are writing your PHP script, you'll write Classes and Functions that you will use in your script in external files so that they might be included( ) or required( ) at any time. But what can you do to prevent access to these files and limit such access only to your script?

Welcome to PHP. This tutorial is aimed at beginner PHP developers who want to learn how to use the PHP's in-built logical operators.

Right, so you are making a new website, and you wanna spiff up your design with collapsing and expanding menus? I?ve created an easy to use way to put in as many menus as you like, and it uses sessions to store which menus to show and which to hide.

Why work harder when you can just work smarter, and get things done in half the time? One of PHP's many uses is in creating templates, which allow you to separate content and formatting.

Sessions and cookies. What are they? Smoking marijuana and eating biscuits? Hell no - in the web development world they are very important functions of interactive design!

In Part 1 of this tutorial, we covered the basics of our Form Validation Class. In Part 2, we will get our hands dirty in creating the remaining useful Class Methods that will instruct the Class which form fields to validate and how to validate them.

Are you getting bored with standard PHP functions? Do you want to venture into additional libraries of PHP code? If so, GD is an additional module that allows the programmer to develop graphics using PHP.

When developing PHP-driven websites its often very useful to know how long your pages took to process. This not only gives you some idea of the efficiency of your websites and of the server running them, but may help you diagnose problems, benchmark code corrections/additions, etc.

This tutorial is not made for the average novice, and is probably placed closer to intermediate skill capability if you want to explore more advanced colour combinations.

One of the many ways of hashing data using PHP is a function called md5(). md5() converts a string of text into a 32-character hash, using a secret algorithm, thus protecting the original source information.