A Useful Event Calendar Written In PHPAn events calendar allows you to keep a schedule of your appointments, etc. In this article Mitchell creates an extremely useful events calendar using only PHP.I don't want a PDA and I don't want to use the features of my phone to store appointments or my schedule.I practically live on the web, as I'm sure many of you do. I want a web-based calendar that I have full control of. I want to be ...

PHP Date + Time PrimerPHP incorporates powerful and fast date and time functionality. In this article Ryan gives us the low down on PHP's various functions to manipulate the time and date with ease.Today's web sites try to offer a wide variety of useful data and information to the viewer. This is often what makes a web site more appealing than flashy graphics and cheesy animations. In fact, sometimes it is the attention to subtle detail that helps the web ...

Simple PHP Templates With PatTemplatePatTemplate is a template system that gives us the power and flexibility to add templates to our PHP driven sites. In this article Havard gives us details and examples of how to use patTemplate with PHP.If you've ever written a large-scale PHP application you've probably seen how cumbersome it can be having PHP and HTML all mixed up in one file -- and it gets even worse when you have to update your design. This is ...

10 PHP Functions I Bet You Didn't Know About!PHP has hundreds of functions. In this article Mitchell looks at 10 uncommon yet useful PHP functions and shows you examples of how to use each of them to save time when coding.As with many other programming languages PHP has dozens upon dozens of functions that most developers simply will never use. There are many reasons why these functions may not be used. They may be too advanced, may be under-documented, may ...

Review: IB ForumsWant to add community to your site for free? In this article Sebastian reviews IB Forums, the hottest new bulletin board system to hit the (free) market.[Note] The screenshots in this images are reduced size. Click here to download the support material which contains the images in their actual size [End Note]There are hundreds of different Bulletin Board Systems available on the web today. Some are free, some are not, however most of them are not worth your ...

Making Sense Of PHP ErrorsPHP's interpreter has been known to split confusing error messages. In this article we will learn what the most common ones mean and also how to combat them.All of us -- no matter how careful we are when programming -- make errors and confuse the PHP interpreter. But when a developer can't even decipher what the interpreter is reporting to him or her, it becomes useless, and often frustrating.PHP does its best to report the first ...

Installing PHP With IIS To Create A Discussion ForumPHP newbies: Install PHP on your Windows PC and create a Microsoft Access discussion forum in 10 minutes using this article from Jayesh.If you're a fan of PHP then you may have PHP installed on an Apache web server using MySQL as the backend on a Windows or Linux machine. Most people will develop and test their code on a Windows machine until they move it into a production machine.In this article ...

The Quickest Way To Count Users Online With PHPWe've written more than 1 article on how to count users online, but in this article Elan assures us that he's found the quickest, easiest and most logical method. Take a look and see what you think!Many websites, especially ones using portal scripts or forums, display how many users are currently visiting the website. Displaying "There are currently 202 visitors online" (the most we’ve ever had online at once here at DevArticles) ...

Developing Multipurpose Pages With PHPSick of having a site that's composed of 50 PHP scripts? In this article we will learn the concepts of multipurpose pages with PHP -- a simple yet powerful idea.If you have run a database-driven site with members and forums, you might know how much work it is to create two versions of each page -- one for when the user isn't logged in, and one for when they are. On top of this, you need ...

Using the .NET Assembly in PHPUsing the power of COM interop, you can write code in VB.Net or C# and use it in PHP, VB6, or any other language that can access COM. In this article Jayesh shows us how.The .NET Framework is a new computing platform that simplifies application development in the highly distributed environment of the Internet. The .NET Framework is designed to provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment, a code-execution environment that minimizes software deployment and versioning ...