This tutorial will show you how to produce static html pages using PHP. This is important if you want the benefits of using PHP to build sections of a site where the content of the pages doesn't change very often.

Though it's easy to create sites in PHP, it's not immune to sloppy coding. Clancy Malcolm explains how to recognize and fix potential security holes.

Luis Yordano Cruz demonstrates three-tier PHP application design with PEAR::DB_DataObject, Smarty, and PHP 5. The article assumes that you have some familiarity with HTML, Smarty, PEAR::DB_DataObject, MySQL, and PHP 5.

This tutorial explains the usage of the Simple XML extension new to PHP 5. It provides examples of reading and querying XML data.

A good programmer makes her code look so simple and comprehensible that any other programmer can understand it and appreciate it.

Explains the PEAR database abstraction layer.

A description in plain English of what classes are, and how they can make your project easier to complete and extend.

This tutorial is aimed at users who have no previous experience with programming in PHP or any other programming language.

PHP comes with a full-featured file and directory manipulation API that allows you (among other things) to view and modify file attributes, read and list directory contents, alter file permissions, retrieve file contents into a variety of native data ...

This second segment of the tutorial on the PHP filesystem API takes you into deeper waters, showing you how to copy, delete and rename files; scan directories; work with uploaded files over HTTP; perform pattern matches on file names; and read and wri...