PHP : Magazine Articles

In this article, Tobias Ratschiller (who runs http://phpwizard.net) explains what PHP is, what it can do, and where it stands compared to other programming and scripting languages.

Treasure Trove

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PHP is a Web scripting language that is the functional equivalent of Microsoft's VBScript and Active Server Pages except that PHP is more platform-agnostic...PHP3 provides myriad powerful features for your Web applications.

From its humble roots as Personal Home Page Tools, PHP has evolved into robust technology for developing web applications. It talks about PHP's roots, the case for PHP, the future of PHP, and more.

Ask most Web application developers their scripting language of choice, and you'll find that most are divided into two camps - the Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) folks, and the Cold Fusion users. If you do a little more research however, you'll find there are other options out there, and one of these, PHP 3.0, is in much wider use than one would think for an "alternative product".

Server-side scripting languages

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Can't decide whether to use PHP scripts, Perl CGIs, or Java servlets for your next Web development project? This article will help you decide by providing a side-by-side comparison of the functioning source code of all three languages

The recent benchmarking spree of PhpLib, ADODB, PEAR DB, Metabase and Native MySQL has brought more questions up how to to design fast and powerful class libraries in PHP. This short article describes how to design a fast and powerful class libraries in PHP.

Marketing manu scripts

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A collection of techniques that Mark Joyner has tested and perfected. Just one technique can increase your Internet sales by 32%. Jay Conrad Levinson said he'd easily pay $2,000 or more for this document. He said "every page was a true revelation." Joe Vitale said everyone selling *anything* on the Net should keep a copy of this on their desk.

Advantages of PHP Over Java

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This is a brief article on comparison between PHP and Java language. Discussion on history, advantages, and statistics.

Learn how to use PHP to separate the different elements that make up a well designed and valid Web page into its component parts and have these parts adapt in certain powerful ways. These components correlate almost exactly with the modular design of XHTML itself. Covers the key differences between HTML and XHTML, the HTTP protocol, content negotiation and MIME types, returning the correct DOCTYPE declaration, building custom metadata in the <head> section of each document, extracting navigation elements and content from a MySQL database, markup functions, and finally closing page elements. The series concludes with a sample page that demonstrates all the key aspects. Full annotated source code is provided throughout.

PHP Vs Perl

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In this article we will attempt to anwser which programming language is better, PHP or PERL. We look at how well they perform, learning curve and how powerful they are.