Php Tutorials

Creating a localhost in Windows (Part 4: Installing phpMyAdmin)

Posted under Php Tutorials on Saturday, 6 June 2009 by ashu

Your Localhost is very nearly complete, we've installed Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL 5. I breifly talked about the ability to modify and change MySQL databases. Well phpMyAdmin can do just that, this tool allows you to do this, it helps you manage your MySQL database in a nicely presented admin...

Creating a localhost in Windows (Part 4: Installing phpMyAdmin)

Creating a localhost in Windows (Part 1: Installing Apache)

Posted under Php Tutorials on Saturday, 6 June 2009 by ashu

localhost is a developers best friend when it comes to testing out server side scripts etc. Much like a web-server, a localhost is a space which is offline but allows you to view/test server side code as if it was a real online server, but infact you will be creating a server which can only...

Creating a localhost in Windows (Part 1: Installing Apache)

Creating a localhost in Windows (Part 2: Installing PHP 5)

Posted under Php Tutorials on Saturday, 6 June 2009 by ashu

In part one we setup a Apache server and configured the localhost ready for you to use, we also set up the directory where you are going to save your local files. But so far in part one we only essentially setup the localhost, so all of the goodness of being able to view server side...

Creating a localhost in Windows (Part 2: Installing PHP 5)

Introduction to functions

Posted under Php Tutorials on Saturday, 6 June 2009 by ashu

A quick introdution to making your own functions in PHP. Covers the syntax, parameters, returning values and using functions in your code View...

Protect your script from hackers: by validating HTTP GET variable names

Posted under Php Tutorials on Saturday, 6 June 2009 by ashu

$_GET data is usually passed to the browser to indicate what page or article to load from a Website and may be used to make a query to your MySQL database. You probably already have protected your MySQL database from SQL injection attacks. Let's take an extra step to protect the valuable data...

Protect your script from hackers: by validating HTTP GET variable names

URL Query String Basics

Posted under Php Tutorials on Saturday, 6 June 2009 by ashu

Have you noticed an URL with a question mark following the filename? Most probably you have. This is a technique used to pass data to web pages using URL query strings. What is a URL query string? View...