PHP Tutorials

Making PHP Applications Cache-Friendly

With a rather small number of new postings, it is obvious that Phorum and its underlying DBMS INSERT INTO `sites`..

Object Oriented PHP: Paging Result Sets

Find yourself writing the same code again and again? Try Object Oriented Programming! Kev creates a reusable component to split..

On the Security of PHP, Part 1

Despite the fact that the language is designed with security in mind, a familiarity with its more dangerous aspects and..

On the Security of PHP, Part 2

We conclude our look at securing PHP code with some advice on programming guidelines, user-input filtering, and configuration settings. Upon..

OO Design: Abstract Classes

This article is the first in a series of articles that will focus on various object-oriented design topics. In this..

PEAR Primer

PEAR stands for "PHP Extension and Application Repository" and has been slowly building itself over the last few years. There..

Pear::DB Primer

Pear::DB provides a database abstraction layer for PHP allowing it to use most major databases, including MySQL, PostGreSQL, and MS..