Recently Popular Tutorials for September 4th, 2008
Sep 4
Browser based template editor
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.
Sep 4
Deleting files with PHP
Following our tutorials on uploading files and listing files, this tutorial will walk you through deleting files from a directory
Sep 4
Uploading files with PHP
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.
Sep 4
Using Search Engine Friendly URLs for your Dynamic Pages
"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.
Sep 4
Listing files stored within a directory 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.
Sep 4
Generating Search Engine Friendly Titles for your URL
For most dynamic websites you will want to create "Search Engine Friendly" or "User Friendly" URLs, rather than using ugly and meaningless strings or IDs to reference your content. The way you interpret the URLs and use them to get your content is for another article and I won't go into that right now, what [...]
Sep 4
Encrypting passwords using PHP
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.
Sep 4
In Depth Contact Form Part 3 - Better Error Checking
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?".
Sep 4
In Depth Contact Form Part 2 - The PHP Code
The second part of this tutorial details the PHP code that checks data has been entered and send an email containing this data.
Sep 4
PHP Thumbnail Generation Script
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.
Sep 4
Random Password Generation
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.
