One of the most basic reasons to use a computer-programming language is for task automation. Through a series of logical decisions, developers can use code to accomplish smaller tasks that, when ...

I blogged previously on using PHP on the command line, but I did not cover using PHP to access the file system in that post in the interest of blog post size. I use this post to cover some of the ...

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Fortunately, PHP does a good job of streamlining the preprocessing time, so I try to use PHP’s functions as much as possible when dealing with dynamic content and data. Data sources and PHP functions ...

Implement MySQL-based transactions with a new set of PHP extensions Your email has been sent Written by Transactional support has long been on the wish list of most MySQL developers and, with the ...

There is little doubt that PHP is one of the easiest languages to use to start generating dynamic Web content. PHP, in combination with Linux, Apache and MySQL is so popular, it has spawned the ...

Using a combination of PHP and MySQL functions, you can query an online database for numerical values, add them together and display the results on your Web page. You have to use the functions in a ...