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Custom Error Pages
Create custom error pages for your website using an Apache .htaccess file and a simple PHP file.
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Feature Pack: Regular Expressions
Find the resources that you need dealing with regular expressions. Discover over fifty links to articles, books, and pocket references to get you started with regular expressions in the programming language of your choice.
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Generating Random Passwords
Have you ever needed to generate a random password, for example when a user forgets his/her password? Create a PHP function that generates random passwords with a specified amount of characters.
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Global Variables
Globals are variables that can be accessed in any context of an application. Globals present the risk of creating complex and mutual dependencies, making your code twisted and tangled. Learn here about the dangers of using global variables and why/how you should dismiss them entirely.
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PHP Arrays
Arrays help to keep related data neatly organised. Learn how to harness the power of arrays in PHP.
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PHP Conditional
Use if...else and switch statements to control the flow of your PHP programs by allowing them to make condition-based decisions.
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PHP Functions
Functions are the foundation of organised procedural programming. Learn how to craft your own functions, return values from functions, and input data as parameters into functions.
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PHP Loops
Learn about while, do...while, for, and foreach loops in PHP and how the while loop is commonly used to loop through MySQL results.
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PHP Variables and Operators
Learn how to take advantage of variables and the different operators in PHP.
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POST vs. GET
HTML allows you to pass data using either the POST or the GET HTTP request methods. What's the difference between the two? Learn the different methods for passing data via HTML forms.
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RSS Feeds and PHP
Know the basics of RSS and want to put it to use on your website? Learn how to use PHP to create database driven RSS feeds that are maintenance free!
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Using the PHP Manual
While programming, have you ever needed a function to carry out a certain task, but you did not remember it? Where could you have found it? Learn how to navigate the function pages of the PHP manual to the fullest extent, so that you will never experience this problem again!
