Many PHP Tutorials

Clever Tutorials offers the following large selection of PHP Tutorials gathered from several of the better web development tutorial sites on the web.  These cover several areas of PHP scripting and web development, including passwords, logins, content management, cookies, database integration, dates, email, file manipulation, forms, image handling, security, and user statistics.


PHP Tutorials:

Basics

PHP Weather
Create a weather widget and show your current weather.

How to execute PHP using CRON
This will allow you to set up a schedule to execute PHP scripts. Works with most shared hosting plans as well.

PHP - The Ultimate Basics
This tutorial will teach everything you need to get you on your way to learning PHP. You can learn exactly how it works, how data is sent, as well as a detailed explanation of some of the most commonly used functions.

Generating random passwords
The tutorial will teach us how to generate a random password every time the function is called.

“Header Already Sent” Error
Learn how to avoid “Header already sent” error and some other common use of Header() function.

Include/SSI
Learn how to use the include() function using the power of PHP.

Introduction to PHP
An Introduction to the basics of PHP for a beginnner.

PHP Simple Login Script
Learn to create a simple login system with php & mysql script, this tutorial easy to follow, teach you step by step.

Introduction to using classes
This tutorial will teach you what classes are and how to use them effectively in your web application.


Content Management

Link Exchange System
This tutorial will take you through all steps in developing your own link exchange system using Dreamweaver CS3, PHP, MySQL and CSS.

Comment Board
Learn how to make a comment/discussion board.

Directory List
Learn how to make a directory list in PHP.

Topsite Script
Create your very own topsite website with this tutorial

Affiliates System
Learn to create a complete Affiliate Management system in PHP.

News CMS With Admin Panel
Learn to create a news system, which you can add to it using the comments system script as well to round it out.


Cookies

Understand PHP Sessions
Learn what sessions are and how to use them.

Cookies a Quick Glance
A short tutorials on what cookies are and how to use them.

Setting Cookies
You may need to set cookies to remember certain information…


Database Integration

Creating a Simple Database Abstraction Layer
If you ever intend to create an open source PHP script that utilizes a database, you will likely at one time or another be faced with the question “How do I interface with more than one type of database system?” The answer is simple: a database abstraction layer. We’ll show you how to create a simple database abstraction layer that works with MySQL, MsSQL, and PostgreSQL in this example.

Writing your own MySql class
In this tutorial we cover how to make a MySql class file which will control all database activity.

PHP and MySQL RSS Feed
Create a dynamic XML RSS document with PHP.

Get MySQL database layout in XML format
Learn how to fetch MySQL database layout in a XML format.

Simple chatbox in PHP/MYSQL
Learn how to make a easy chatroom with php and mysql.

Banner System
A simple banner system to randomly rotate images in a MySQL database.

PHP and MySQL Search Engine
Make a search engine in PHP that searches MySQL

Updating Database
Update multiple rows in MySQL with this detailed tutorial.

MySQL Search Engine
Learn how to do a simple search engine using MySQL database.


Date and Time

PHP date function explained
With PHP’s date function you format timestamps, so they are more human readable. The following tutorial will teach you how to display the current time, formating PHP’s timestamp, and show you all the various date arguments for reference purposes.

Calendar in PHP
Create Calendar in PHP using a CSS layout system.


Email

Creating a simple mail sender class with PHP
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple mail sender class in PHP. Sending emails with PHP is a lot easier than you would think, however you need to care about some settings to avoid moving your emails into a spam folder.

Verifying email address
When users sign up to join your website you may want to verify their email address by sending confirmation link to their email address. You’ll learn how to do this in this tutorial.

Mail Form with PHP and HTML
Learn how to create a basic Mail Form using PHP and HTML.

Email Validation
Add email validation to forms using regular expressions and domain check.

Form Mail
Learn how to make a Form Mail using the power of PHP.


File Manipulation

Multiple files upload
You can upload multiple files with one time submission. Array is a big role in this tutorial, let’s see the scripts.

File System Operations
A list of handy file system commands for PHP developers.

Compressing and Decompressing a File in PHP
Learn the basics of Compressing and Decompressing a file using bzcompress() function.

File Creator/Editor
Create a form that makes and/or adds data to files on your server.

PHP Multiple Upload files
Create a script for uploading multiple files to your site.


Forms

Contact Form
Create a safe contact form using Xajax and PHPmailer.

Tell A Friend Script
Learn to create a tell a friend script – Quick way to email friends about your site.

Anti Spam Bots Form Trick
Protect your forms from spam bots.

Validation
A guide to some simple form validating.

Send this page to a Friend
A php tutorial to create a send this page to a friend script and form.

Making Sticky Forms
Learn how to create and use sticky forms, which saves data that has been entered into a form.

Link Verifier
Create a link verifier that checks to see if a link is working or not.


Forums

phpBB login
Integrate a login form on your index for your forum

Forum System
Learn to create a full forum system yourself.


Image Handling

How to make custom avatars with php
Learn how to use php to make a customizable avatar. A great and unique feature for any website!

Very simple gallery
Learn how you can create your own gallery.

Cropped Thubnails
Create cropped thumbnails with GD Library.

GD Library Bar Chart
Create a dynamic bar chart with PHP and GD Library.

Drop Shadows with GD Library
Learn how to create drop shadows easily with GD Library and Photoshop.

Random Images
Ever wanted to make links, or banners appear on your site in a random order? Well here’s a simple script that will do just that.

Watermarking
How to quickly watermark your images in PHP.

Image Databasing
This tutorial teaches you how to upload images into a mysql database using PHP.

Image Uploading

Creating thumbnail
Learn to Resize an image with PHP

Creating a simple photo gallery
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple photo gallery. The script creates thumbnail images if needed and displays all images in the given directory.


Miscellaneous

Creating an IRC bot in PHP
Combined Minds presents you the biggest and best PHP -> IRC bot tutorial on the web! This tutorial learns you how to create a very good working IRC bot from scratch!

PHP Caching
Learn effective data caching techniques with PHP

Creating a domain checker
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a PHP script to check whether the actual domain name is available or not.

URL Check
Learn a simple way of verifying if a URL still works using PHP

Basic Shoutbox
Learn how to make an easy shoutbox for your site.

Browser-Dependent Stylesheets
Learn how to make a Browser-Dependent Stylesheets.

AOL IM Check User Online
Learn to see if a screenname is currently online on AOL Instant Messenger.

Mini-Chat Tutorial
Create your very own chat script.

Custom Error Messages
Replace the usual error messages with your own.

Polling Script
Creating a simple file based polling script.

Simple Word Filter
Stop Bad Words on your sites.

Website Localizations and Multi-language Support
Some techniques of using custom language packs and language markers in database to provide automatic different translations of the website.

Menu System
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple menu system with 2 levels. You can easy integrate it into your site to get a nice and easy editable site navigation system.

Using phpBB’s Template Class
Have you ever wanted a sturdy and secure template system on your website? Can’t make it yourself, or just don’t want to spend hours writing and testing? phpBB Forums have one of the best template systems around and because of the free GNU license attached to the code, you can use it for your own website.

Page Numbers
Paginating large text and stories with PHP

Smarty templates for beginners
Tutorial on how to use Smarty templates.

DB Driven Menu
Create a fully database driven flexible menu.

Easy PHP Pagination
Full video tutorial explaining basic page numbering.

Template System
Learn how to write a Template System in PHP

PHP Navigation
Create those ?id=page links and learn how to insert content into your site.


Security

How to safely clean user data
Using regular expressions to clean data can ensure that you will not get any sort of MySQL injections.

Full IP Banning System – With Admin Panels
Ever wanted to ban pesky users? Now you can with this IP Banning system.

PHP User System Script Tips
Secure your user system scripts using this tutorial.

Making a CAPTCHA
Stop robots and scripts from submitting forms using PHP

Banning IP Addresses
Learn how to ban a single IP or multiple IP addresses from accessing your website.

PHP Port Scanner
Create a Simple PHP Port Scanner - All it takes is a simple FOR loop

Prevent Image Hotlinking
Learn how to prevent others from hotlinking to your images.

IP Banning with Admin Panel
Create a MySQL based IP Banning script with an Admin Panel

Login script
Create secure areas for your website using sessions

Ban Users IP
Learn how to ban specific IP addresses.

Basic PHP Security
Basic PHP script security covers issues like prevention of SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks, variable tampering, etc.

CSS File Protection
See how you can hide your CSS files from rippers using php and .htaccess


User Info and Stats

Tracking Search Engine Traffic
Keep track of the traffic driven by search engines and which keywords are used to reach your site

Alexa Ranking
Show the alexa ranking of any site using PHP

User online
This tutorial show you php script that count how many users are active on your site.

File based logging script
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a small and simple PHP script to log your visitors activity into a file.

Counter
Learn how to make a simple text counter in PHP.

Logging Server Messages
Create a PHP Include File to create logging of server messages to a central logfile.

Displaying Load Times
Display the time taken to load every page.

Adsense Stats from PHP
Use PHP to generate your Adsense stats.

Full Statistics Suite
Create a Full Statistics Suite With Administration for your website.

Download Counter
Create A Nice Download Counter In PHP.

Browser Detection with PHP
Create a simple browser detection script.

Simple PHP Hit Counter Script
Learn how to create a Simple PHP Hit Counter using a text file.

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