Tutorials by clearnetwork

In PHP 5 you can make your life a lot easier by writing an autoload function. This function will automatically load your classes, so you do not need to repeatedly include classes on every page.

A common feature found on many websites upon user registration are random passwords. This tutorial will walk you through a script that generates a random password to a given length.

Continuing on from our article on Listing files stored within a directory using PHP, this quick guide will walk you through how to upload a file to a server using PHP.

Being able to create lists out of files within a directory quickly and easily is a really good skill to have, especially when creating Content Management and web based File Management Systems.

This tutorial focuses on a thumbnail generation script. Rather than generating a smaller representation of the image, it cuts out a section of the photograph to create an obscure snapshot of the photo itself.

"Search Engine Friendly URLs" or "User Friendly URLs" are a much better way of constructing your URLs for dynamic pages. In this article I will discuss some basic ways of doing this, with a little help from mod_rewrite.

When creating a membership based site security is paramount - especially if you're dealing with personal information. When it comes to passwords you'll want to encrypt them wherever they are stored so they can't be stolen. Here are a few things you can do to make your passwords as safe as possible.

A common feature to CMS scripts is a browser based means of editing your templates. This can be helpful if you manage your site remotely or on the move quite often. In this tutorial we walk through how to create a simple template editor in PHP.

The second part of this tutorial details the PHP code that checks data has been entered and send an email containing this data.

Part 3 of the contact form tutorial looks back at the error checking in place previously, and asks the question "How can we make it better?".